Church Encouragement

Services

Workshop

Larry Ferguson - Director

INTRODUCTION

Format of this workshop:

• Intro to Church Encouragement Services

• 14 sessions of the seminar (1X1)

• (Each “session” has 2 parts

A. Sugar = A useful tip you can use now

B. Salt = Something only in the seminar

HOW

CAME ABOUT

It started with

My First

Ministry

• The Old Wyatt

Church

Santa Cruz Church

From Death

To Life

Years Later

• The original Santa Cruz Building

• The new auditorium

• Educational Buildings

ITT Leadership Seminar

Statistics

say that

85%

of churches in America

are either

declining or stagnate

Churches Closing at a Rapid RateIn the forward of the book printed by College Press “Church

Planting from the Ground Up” Edited by Tom Jones & compiled by several authors, are some staggering statistics about dying churches. The author of the forward is Tom Rainer, Dean of the Billy Graham School of Evangelism and church growth. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.

The statistic is this: of the approximately 400,000 churches in America, it’s estimated that 60,000 of those churches will close in the next 10 to 15 years. In 10 years that would be about 115 per week. 15 years would be approximately 76 per week.

This is staggering not only because of the fact itself, but because previous statistics indicated only about 7 churches per week closing down.

Thus the overwhelming need for Church Encouragement Services Inc.

(New life for churches.)

IMAGINE

76 to 115

Churches

Closing Down

Every Week !

My Heart Is TouchedBy this

Over-whelming Need

That’s WhyI wrote

The C E S Manuscript

“Raising the Dead”

(New life for churches)

ChurchEncourage

mentServicesNew Life For Churches

C. E. S. Logo

Church Encouragement Services

What the Seminar is AboutHow to:

Motivate, Delegate, Deal with Problems, Create a Vision, Establish an Evangelism Ministry, Oversee, Identify Problems, Plan, Implement, Equip, Make Sunday Special, Identify Needs, Make Meetings Productive, Bring Visitors Back, Develop New Leadership, and especially How to Bring God’s Direction to Your Church.

Also:Suggested Agendas, Job Descriptions, Priorities of the

Church, Milk of the Word, Meat of the Word, Signs of a Dying Church, Re-establishing proper authority, Leadership skills, Preparing a Lesson, Developing Curriculum, Finding Hope in Hopeless Situations, Examples of churches that died, A dying church brought back to life, Dealing with discipline, Tools and methods to accomplish God’s task.

THINGS YOU GET

WITH YOUR SEMINAR• 1. Week-end (16 hour) “Power Point” presentation• 2. 500 page (fill in the blanks) personal Student Manuals• 3. Special New Beginnings Bulletin and order of service• 4. New Beginnings Sunday morning worship service• 5. Four “Revival of Prayer” sermon outlines• 6. New Life Master Calendar – (Large - ready for posting)• 7. Strong baby steps (1 step at a time) Implementation • 8. Easy “Baby Steps” follow up program• 9. 54 color “New Life” focus points• 10. Evaluation list “Signs of a Dying Church”• 11. How to bring God into the life of your church.• 12. Materials to activate your “Revival of Prayer”

• 13. Opportunity to Partner with the C E S Ministry

Identifying Twelve Barriers

1. Not recognizing problems

2. Leaving God out

3. No Vision

4. Bible not final authority

5. No Good News

6. Dysfunctional Leaders

7. Leader’s job descriptions distorted

8. No one being equipped

9. Poor or no preparation

10. Sunday not special

11. Problems ignored or poorly handled

12. Much talk - but no implementation

Solutions that bring new life:

1. Problems identified

2. God brought back into the picture

3. Discovering a vision

4. Re-discovering the Bible

5. Good news abounding

6. Leaders leading

7. Job descriptions clearly defined

8. Christians equipped for ministry

9. Quality preparation

10. Sunday made special

11. Problem solving procedure

12. Dreams and plans implemented

Seminar AgendaFRIDAY NIGHT

7:00 to 8:00 - Introduction/Orientation Break - 8:00 to 8:15

8:15 to 9:15 - Chapter One - Consequences

SATURDAY Breakfast - 9 to 9:30

9:30 to 11:00 - Chapter Two - Revival of Prayer Break - 11:00 to 11:15

11:15 to 12:15 - Chapter Three - Creating a Vision Lunch - 12:15 to 12:45

12:45 to 1:45 - Chapter Four - Back To the Bible

1:45 to 2:45 - Chapter Five - What Happened to the Good New?

Break - 2:45 to 3:00

3:00 to 4:00 - Chapter Six - Leaders

4:00 to 5:00 - Chapter Seven - The Preacher Break - 5:00 to 5:15

5:15 to 6:45 - Chapter Eight - Elders

Supper - 6:45 to 7:15

7:15 to 7:45 - Chapter Nine - Deacons and/or Ministry Leaders

7:45 to 8:45 - Chapter Ten - Equipping

Break - 8:45 to 9:00

9:00 to 9:45 - Chapter Eleven - It Pays to Prepare

SUNDAY New Beginnings Worship Service

Lunch - 12:30 to 1:15

1:15 to 2:15 - Chapter Twelve - Making Sunday Special

2:15 to 3:15 - Chapter Thirteen - Problem Solving

Break - 3:15 to 3:30

3:30 to 4:30 - Chapter Fourteen – Implementation

4:30 to 5:00 - Conclusion and Graduation

After the seminar you will be prepared toHave a “Revival of Prayer”

The ♥ of a “Revival of Prayer”*Four sermons on prayer

*13 weeks of lessons on prayer

*3 prayers in the worship service

*15 minutes of prayer at every meeting

*Prayer room early Sunday mornings

*24 hours of prayer

*Day of Prayer and fasting

New Life For Churches

Now for the 14

Sugar & Salt tips

REMEMBER

Sugar = A useful tip you can use now

Salt = Something only in the seminar

1. BENEATH THE SURFACEConsequences

of major

problems

Sugar - Don’t Deny - Identify

Salt - 113 signs of a dying church.

2. PRIORITY COMMUNICATIONIt starts with a “Revival of Prayer”

Sugar - The need for

effective, fervent

calling out to God.

Salt - 13 week curriculum for

“Revival of Prayer”

3. HOW TO START A FIRECreating a vision

Sugar - The church must

have a vision of

what can be accomplished

with God.

Salt - How to create an effective vision team.

4. REDISCOVERING

THE BIBLE

Sugar - The Bible must be the only & final authority.

Salt - 38 descriptions of what (only) the Bible is.

5. GOD’S HEART

OUR HANDSWhat happened to the good news?

Sugar - The priorities of God -

Must have new babies -

Emphasize Jesus!

Salt - Scriptures

relating to salvation -

11 methods that work.

6. EFFECTIVE LEADERS

Sugar - As the leaders go

so the church goes.

Salt - Dynamic, workable & essential leader skills.

7. THE COACH Preachers

Sugar - The preacher must have

the freedom & the support

to do what God asks him to do.

Salt - The preacher’s job description.

How to take care of your preacher.

The preacher’s contract..

8. SHEPHERDS or ELDERS

Sugar - Much responsibility -

Little training and support.

Salt - Many surprised by

their biblical job description.

Graph complete responsibilities.

9. THE SPARK PLUGS Deacons - (Ministry leaders)

Sugar - Prescribed by God to be helpers for the whole church,

Especially the leaders.

Salt - Their biblical job description.

10. EQUIPPING (For what?)

Sugar - Most Christians are

un-equipped for ministry.

Salt - How to do the equipping.

11. BE PREPAREDIt pays to prepare

Sugar - Poor preparation leads to poor results.

Salt - Workable tips for quality preparation.

12. MAKING SUNDAY SPECIAL

Sugar - Out of the rut

- into exciting Sundays.

Salt - Loads of ways to make Sunday special.

13. HELP FOR

DEALING WITH PROBLEMS

Sugar - Problems are

opportunities, but

opportunities to do what?

Salt - Problem solving procedure.

14. LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!Implementation

Sugar - Often much talk

without much doing.

Salt - A way to get the job done efficiently & timely.

OTHER THINGS

THAT ONLY THE SEMINAR OFFERS

(More salt)

□ 500 page full color resource manual.

□ Humorous but pointed elder’s meeting dialogues

□ 64 focus points.

□ Examples of churches that died

□ Songs that emphasize the topics

□ Fun songs

□ Illustrative stories

Free introduction packets available

Church Encouragement Services Inc.

512 Coventry Court

Plymouth, Indiana 46563

(574) 272-8288

rdtmin@hoosierlink.net