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Mission statementCreate effective systems for making reproducing disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.InvitationJoin us in the adventure of systematically harnessing communication technologies for the glory of God!

Seminary GraduatesEvery year the seminary where I work graduates more than 300 men and women. These people are no longer focused on reading books and writing papers. They seek

ministry opportunities. They return to their hometown or move to where they have job offers. Many relocate overseas to serve in the mission field.

I have been working at the seminary since 1999 so I know many graduates all over the

world. They understand the importance of learning online ministry to go along with their offline ministry. During the coming months and years Our Stewardship Community will put various lessons online for them to improve evangelism and discipleship.

These graduates will be included as important members of the ministry as we collaboratively build the base and extend the outreach. Their wisdom, insights and experiences will help guide the unfolding ministry.

These dear people are often isolated from other seminary graduates. They will face complex challenges and choices in the coming years. So one of our services will be to work with them to create ways for them to meet other graduates from other seminaries and work together for social and spiritual goals. I have a website to start that process http://www.freewebs.com/seminarygraduateshub/

Please Pray The most important way you can support any ministry is with prayers. Never underestimate the power of earnest prayers. A little faith in a big God goes a long ways.

Over the decades I have witnessed hundreds of answered prayers in my life and in the life of others.

Every Monday I send out a few brief prayer requests to e and for the ministry. Here are the archives http://community.icontact.com/p/oscsmr/newsletters/2009

And here is where you can subscribe http://osclaunch.webs.com/intercessorsneeded.htm

Please pray especially for the Lord Jesus Christ to continually train me to improve in prayer and intercession for the rest of my life. This is a critical spiritual discipline that is infinitely deep and wide.

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Our Stewardship Community

Quarterly News Letter April 2010 Volume I Number 2

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New Mission Statement

The brand new mission

statement is as follows.

Create effective systems for

making reproducing disciples of

the Lord Jesus Christ.

This sentence points to the top priority of making

disciples from the Great Commission (Matthew

28:18-20). These disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ

will reproduce themselves by making more disciples.

And Our Stewardship Community offers effective

systems that are online yet relate to offline too.

The mission statement will be reviewed and revised

by the board of directors, consultants and others for

years to come. And for today this is the best I can do.

Our

The name Our Stewardship Community begins with the term ‘our’ on purpose.

The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 12 that the body of Christ is like the human body. Each member has need of the other members.

The Holy Spirit indwells each member. Jesus Christ is the Lord of each individual and the Head of the corporate body.

One of the names of Jesus is Emmanuel, God with us. We will trust Him to work through us.

We will experiment with various innovative forms of shared leadership. We will borrow and adapt from the best methods available. The interactions of the people will organically create a new kind of hybrid. But at the core this is ‘our’.

Stewardship

The name Our Stewardship Community contains the term ‘stewardship’ as a key focus.

It seems that most Christians in the USA do not consider that after this moral life they will give an account to the Lord Jesus Christ privately. Yet He will justly judge and generously rewards good works done in His name by born again believers.

The evaluation will be based on stewardship of what God has entrusted to them. That means their time, talents and treasures (things and money)

People feel pain about their time and money. Yet the greatest need is to discover and develop talents in the context of a supportive community. And in this Digital Age all kinds of new options are available for us to use our talents for the glory of God.

Community

The name Our Stewardship Community contains the term ‘community’ as a critical part.

The Bible teaches that the greater body of Christ is like a large spiritual organism. There is unity and diversity in the millions of members. And Jesus Christ is the Head of His body.

The Internet has been used by the business community and the youth in amazing ways. Every day millions of people are using these tools.

Our Stewardship Community will harness these communication technologies to pioneer ways to foster healthy communities both online and offline. We are serving the next generation of Christian leaders they will adapt what we use and add other elements needed for their setting. Together we will learn and teach cross cultural considerations.

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Valuable Resources HubGod uses me as an instrument of His grace to sow seeds. These seeds are mostly resources in the form of links to useful websites or catalogs.

These practical aids provide a wide range of options. Then the person is empowered to do their own research before investing their time, energy and money.

This is my way to be a doer of the word when Paul said in Ephesians 4:12 to equip God’s people to better serve and build up the body of Christ.

I have been doing this directly and indirectly for many years. I have various collections of links to websites online now. Those collections are scattered and several times a month I send an email to a Christian leader with links to those blogs or websites that will meet the needs that were revealed in our conversation. Here is one link that goes to many of those collections http://jsohub.webs.com/blogs.htm

What I plan to create this summer is a new central website that will offer most of the best of these at one location. It will be easy to browse because I will include keyword tags.

This site will include many screencast videos of 3 to 5 minutes.

This site will be named Valuable Resources Hub. It will be the beta version of one of the five service of Our Stewardship Community. Namely it will be the initial Networking Hub.

Please pray for God to guide my thoughts, plans and actions related to this project.

When the seed capital is raised then the web developers will take this to the next level with their advanced programing and better graphic design.

PreviewsWhat follows are previews of links that will be on the Valuable Resources Hub described in the previous column.

You can find the hot links to these sites by go to the archives of this Quarterly Newsletter at the bottom of the home page for the ministry

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Books

Here are some books that I highly recommend that you can find in libraries and bookstores. These links go to web pages with special material about the book.

Seven Habits of Highly Effective PeopleStephen Coveywww.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits.php

Six Thinking HatsEdward DeBonowww.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats www.edwarddebono.com/Default.php

Power of StoryJim Loehrwww.hpinstitute.com/book_power_of_story.html

E-myth RevisitedMichael Gerberwww.e-myth.com/pub/htdocs/emr_ch1

Purpose Driven LifeRick Warrenhttp://www.purposedrivenlife.com/en-US/AboutUs/AboutTheBook/FirstSevenChapters.htm

Dream GiverBruce Wilkinson http://www.brucewilkinson.com/Store/tabid/295/View961/Detail/TitleID/55/Default.aspx

Experiencing God Henry Blackaby http://www.blackaby.org/resources/bmistore/egbooks.asp

Links CollectionsHere are some collections of links I already have online.

Prayer Hubhttp://prayerhub.blogspot.com/

Bible Study Hubhttp://biblestudyhub.blogspot.com/

Evangelism Hubwww.freewebs.com/evangelismhub/

JSO Hubwww.jsohub.org

Best Online ServicesHere are some of the online services that I use. Valuable Resources Hub

will include a text and video review.

Comappingwww.comapping.com

Toodledowww.toodledo.com

Slide Sharewww.slideshare.net/BrownBagHub/presentations

Webswww.webs.com

Audio Acrobatwww.audioacrobat.com

Smart Sheetwww.smartsheet.com

iContactwww.icontact.com /

Liquid Plannerwww.liquidplanner.com

Meet JohnGo to the new online slide show auto biography about John S. Oliver the founder of Our Stewardship Community www.slideshare.net/BrownBagHub/john-s-oliver-an-online-pioneer-2010-04-24

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Game Plan Sequence

Pray over these next steps toward launching the ministry.

1. Write a business case for the ministry. This could be 40 to 60 page document with links to more details online. More than half of this is already written in various places online. It needs to come together into one fluid narrative. This is the core story that will be shared with consultants.

2. The consultants will take the business case and work with me to craft the initial business plan and fund raising materials.

3. The business plan and fund raising materials are aimed to use the proven Benevon fund raising model http://www.benevon.com/resources/model The goal at this phase is for me

to meet with two prospective donors a week and present to two groups per month. When I get into that habit then sooner than later the needed forty thousand dollars of seed capital will will raised.

4. The business plan will have described how the funds will be used. And of the forty thousands dollars (40K) here is the use 10K Consultants & Life Coaches, 10K Web Development, 10K Hardware & Software and 10K Initial Payroll.

5. The business plan and all this activity is aimed at launching the web based platform that offers five services and has five income streams. The five services are Networking Hub, Wiki, Educational Nucleus, Think Tank, Research & Development Lab. The five income streams are donations retail sales, affiliate commissions, memberships and advertisements.

6. There are more steps after this that involve harnessing communication technologies in innovative ways for pioneering evangelism, discipleship and benevolence. This will involve ministering online, offline and both in harmony.

7. In order for these big plans to become a reality then much prayer needs to be enrolled and focused. Also we need to learn how to adapt the best practices of strategic planning, project management and personal productivity.

Fellow Pilgrim CoachingLife Coaching Can be Like Structured Mentoring

Every month I meet with several seminary students and graduates. Some of these repeat

regularly. Mostly these meetings relate to my helping them think clearly about how they

can learn to minister online. I ask them many questions about their background, passions

and dreams for the future. I teach them simple summaries of the many lessons I have

learned from my hundreds of hours of online research. I might send a link to a slide show

that I offered at a Brown Bag Lecture http://www.slideshare.net/BrownBagHub/

presentations And I usually send links to online services I use and sites where they can learn more.

This is a kind of life coaching that I have been doing naturally. There are schools that teach how to do this more

effectively and earn an income. During the coming months I will be investigating this avenue. And I will be hiring life

coaches to help bring better focus, discipline and balance into my life. I need to enroll these people to bring their strengths

to help me better navigate and negotiate the challenges that are ahead. So pray for me to receive and offer coaching.