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A Presentation at your Church:
Raising up Evangelists
The Wounded; the Lost...
When praying about this, we had these words from
the Lord:
"Don't
walk past my wounded, my wounded, my wounded."
You see, people without the Lord are spiritually "wounded".
This evangelism approach is not about "hellfire preaching"; it is a
gentle way of showing people who Jesus is.
Some estimates say that about 10% of church congregations would like
to learn how to do a simple kind of part-time evangelism, and even
go on a short mission. This is wonderful news - but how do you find
them?
First, find the people
We have a talk and PowerPoint presentation aimed at
explaining the Biblical reasons for mission, showing an easy and
gentle approach to the Gospel, and finding people in the congregation willing to have a go; to
learn; to be bold and share the Gospel.
These presentations take about 30-40 minutes, and are normally given
in at a Sunday service.
They are bible-based, and centred on what Jesus asks us to do.
From previous
experience, about 10-15% of the congregation wanted to
take this further and signed up for training. Some of them
eventually came on a Mission with "Through Faith Missions" (TFM).
After the mission, they felt they had really been doing what God
wanted them to do. It changed their lives, and it changed the
eternal lives of other people too.
(The presenter is Philip Tory, a lay preacher for more than 15 years.
He is an evangelist at heart, and has been on 6 evangelistic
missions in the UK, plus two evangelistic missions to the Maasai in
Kenya, all with TFM. He has over 6 years' experience on the
prayer ministry team at the Harnhill Centre for Christian Healing,
and he has just finished 3 years serving as a Local Area
Representative for Mission Aviation Fellowship. Currently he is
Missions Coordinator for Brunswick Baptist Church in Gloucester.
His is also a director of his own business, a professional trainer and
a technical
author to many branches of industry.
Mission Training
If you want to learn to play the piano, you have
lessons.
If you want to learn how to drive a car, you need driving lessons.
If you want to share your faith and enjoy it, you need lessons. In
fact, for the one-week missions, you go on a Friday-evening-and-Saturday training course, in which you learn how, and then go
out and do it, working with others who have done it before.
For local mission work, we give a Saturday morning training session.
Dates: For dates for local training, please
contact us. For details of TFM
Training and other events,
click here.
Even if you don't take a week off to go on a mission, come for the
training:
it's important to know how to share your faith with others.
Invitation to speak
If you would like a presentation at your church
or Christian group, then please
contact us.Timing
Training is normally provided two or more months
before the TFM mission week.
If you would like your church members to take part, you would need
to book a Mission Presentation in advance.
To ask for details, please contact
us.
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