User:Deborah

What is God saying to you about evangelism, Europe, new teams, training, etc…?

Integrating into normal life Relationship Sharing life Valuing people Challenging dts to focus more outreaches in Europe Strategic in retargeting the same areas – dts, sos Equipping the church, working with them Developing and releasing evangelists with relational skills Helping people figure out how God had made them, what gifts they have and how to use them most effectively – but not using that as an excuse to never do other things Coaching new teams – visiting new teams, know the people you are working with as well as you – people can see the accountability structure and that you are being supported, trained and developed

Evangelism – want to break the term. It has to be more about our lives than it has been. Need to touch on the foundation of evangelism. Its about being among people. Learning how to be with a non-Christian and how to be available. Not learning how to preach the Gospel to them when we might not see one for the next 10 years!! Lets go out and meet some people. Train teams in different ways.

Every individual at every base interacting with non-Christians. Be among people. I have to live for this. It has to burn in me.

When you live on a big base you can avoid non-Christians – what is God saying about this??

We worship and pray but don’t do evangelism as a big base.

Letting people get to know me rather than saying right away that I am a Christian – people feel bought – we have weaknesses and strengths and we dare to face them. People are not projects – they have names and backgrounds.

Making evangelism attainable – not vague theories, reality – we can do this together. People can be scared about it but actually find that they love it!! Communicating Jesus, loving people.

People are so sophisticated as consumers in western Europe. If they detect a technique and professionalism they are turned off. They respond to reality.

1 Thess 2v8 – sharing our lives with people People want to belong, have non-judgemental relationships, and be believed in.

Church planting – a church as the centre of a community. Applying stuff we know into the ordinary everyday level.

We expect non-Christians to conform, and meet our expectations of what they should be

Street pastoring – be the pastor for you street but don’t tell them you are doing it.

What do we say to people that cannot see these things as a legitimate way of sharing our faith with people?

We haven’t passed on our skills in how we lead our outreach teams. People then don’t know how to contextualise what they have seen. We need to coach and develop.

Most people hear about dts from other people – that is not working for recruitment at the moment – what does that say about dts???

We need to think long term. Its hard when relationships are built and broken, built and broken. Relationships need to be built long term. Be there for the long haul. A one year team is not long-term. You also need a reason to stick around. The lie that this is too much to sacrifice – like the woman who poured perfume on Jesus feet.

Lifetime commitment to Jesus rather than a 2 year commitment to YWAM.

People are looking for adventure when in fact a lot of life is routine and that’s okay.

Time – long-term takes time, discipleship takes time.

Church planting – can be difficult for a “mother�? church to release church plants. New plants need time - more than 6 months. Recognised also that the mother church needs to grow as well.

If someone joins your team for 3 years you are also committing to them for 3 years.

What people want is fantasy but what they need is reality.

A dts is not reality. We don’t transition well from the end of dts into what people are going into next.

Recruitment – asking them what they want to do, not inundate them with opportunities.

Gap year dts – a lot more time and space – how do we do these things in real life?

Multiplication Do we have something prophetic to say to YWAM about multiplication?

How can we influence people or bases to change things? We should not be silent, but go out and change things – challenge “how dare you not go out�?

Biblical planting – we should equip them, silver, gold, cattle, provisions, they were an army, cooks…in YWAM we say “off you go then�? How do we better support smaller teams going out – resources, training, people, pastoral care, building infrastructure to serve them… What is God’s Word on multiplication? How do the bases serve the teams that are out there? Ask the teams how they want to be served and what they need.

Am I working myself out of a job? Training and releasing those under my leadership?

Having some things we know that teams will need but may not need straight away. Connections – phone calls, e-mails, regular communication and relationship… being available

People believing in you – trust and relationship Its not a burden for the base then – if not it becomes task