Register for the first Church Revitalization BootCamp of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists to take place at beautiful Sunset Lake Camp, from November 4-7, 2021 by clicking on the picture above or HERE. The three day experience has been designed and created exclusively for Church Planters, Pastors, Volunteer Lay Pastors, Church Planting Core and Launch Teams, and Conference and Union Leaders currently involved in church planting or planning to plant between now and 2022. The benefits of attending include: practical teaching on how to plant a church, from some of our best church planters in North America, networking opportunities, and experiential learning with other practitioners who are traveling the same journey, and in-depth, direct information on funding for church planting in North America. Click on the picture above or HERE to find out more and register.
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The Northern California Conference hosted the North American Division Evangelism Institute (NADEI) module 1 training for church planters at Leoni Meadows May 3-5. These intensives (6 hours of instruction/group sessions, etc. per day) were attended by leaders from British Columbia (via Zoom due to travel restrictions), Nevada-Utah, Northern California and Oregon Conferences. This is the first of 4 modules for this West Coast church planting initiative. Some have asked, “Why plant churches when we have so many to take care of as it is?” The answers: We have a Biblical mandate to take the gospel to every people, church planting (with various modalities) is one way to help do so, and currently our established churches have not entered several un-entered areas within our own territory. Many other reasons were given from the Bible, Ellen White’s writings and Early Adventist history, but overall the mandate of Matthew 28 remains before us: Go – make disciples! The next module will be in August, so please pray for the respective Conferences endeavoring to take the gospel to their part of the field. Please see the ACTS church planting document for an overview of what we covered. Below are some pictures from module 1. Click HERE to download the document.
![]() The Elder's Engage weekend was attended by over 80 leaders and members from all over the Northern California Conference - we praise God for that! At the end of the last meeting, it was clear that more resources were desired and more online trainings were needed. Look for future meetings to be promoted soon! For those who attended (or who watched the archived presentations online HERE), you can access the slides for the presentations below. Greg Howell: Practical Pendulums of Adventism (the file is too large to post here, please fill out the form on the "Contact Us" page or email the Coordinator at murray.miller@nccsda.com. Dan Serns: Our Most Important "Job" Presentation 1 As of February 26, a YouTube page was created with its first uploaded video: Preaching with PURPOSE session 1. More videos and links to other trainings are now also posted under "Playlists". For Volunteer Lay Pastors you can view a playlist just for you HERE, or get videos on the TEAMS proficiency areas HERE. For Church planters, there is a playlist with lots of videos HERE, and for Pastor-Coaches I have put a playlist on the YouTube channel just for you here.
Feel free to check out the channel and let me know what you think. To utilize the YouTube channel for Volunteer Pastor or Volunteer Lay Pastor education/continuing education hours, please click on the "More" tab and select "Online Learning". Click on the picture below to access the channel or go to: Ministry TEAMS Resources - YouTube The course materials can be obtained by contacting the VLP Coordinator at murray.miller@nccsda.com or by filling out the form on the "Contact Us" page of this website. A Zoom link will then be sent to those who have registered. Here is the introduction contained in the course materials:
Impetus for the Course To obey Christ’s command to take the gospel to the world (Matthew 28:18-20), the Northern California Conference needs more workers. Jesus’ words are still true today that “the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few” (Luke 10:2 NIV). To fulfill the mission of Christ and reach new communities for God, the Northern California Conference needs more part-time and volunteer leaders who can preach, do the work of evangelism, administrate and care for the membership of local churches. These proficiency areas are covered with the TEAMS acronym with each letter standing for an area of training (T – Teaching/Preaching; E – Evangelism/Engagement; A – Administration; M – Member care; and S – Spirituality of the leader). This particular course has been designed to begin meeting the need for more lay training. A more in-depth training course is available for those wishing to pursue being a Volunteer Lay Pastor (VLP). Please feel free to contact your Pastor to express your interest in further trainings to pursue VLP ministry. More resources on preaching, and other areas of ministry, are available online at this web link: https://www.ministryteams.org/teams-resources.html. Purpose and Overview of this Course Purpose: To provide basic proficiency in preaching concepts and a tangible process that can be repeated weekly, monthly or periodically when developing sermons for a local church’s worship service. Overview of sessions[1]:
Suggested Additional Reading: Bresee, W. Floyd (1997). Successful Lay Preaching. Silver Spring, MD: The Ministerial Association of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Robinson, Haddon W. (2001). Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages, 2nd Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. Wibberding, James Richard (2006). Learn to Preach Before Next Weekend. Telford, PA: Big Fish Publishing, In ------------------------------------------------------------------ [1] These sessions were developed through personal experience and by adapting materials produced by the North American Division that were accessed at this website: www.ifollowdiscipleship.org. |
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