Introduction: Syllabus and Assignments

I. Course description: Movements for Church Growth

This course is complementary to the course, History for Church Growth. It examines six movements for Church Growth which have attempted to mobilize Christians within an entire nation: Evangelism-in-Depth, New Life for All, Christ for All, Christ the Only Way, D.A.W.N. (Discipling a Whole Nation), and AD 2000. We will use these examples to form a national strategy for the country represented by the student.

II. Bibliography

At least four works deal with the various movements for Church Growth; they give an excellent background and a detailed explanation of the biblical principles behind the success of each movement: George Peter's book, Saturation Evangelization, discusses Evangelism-in-Depth and New Life for All; Advance of the Church in Africa, by Willys K. Braun, summarizes the first three movements and extracts the principles necessary to begin a national movement in other countries, Roots and Fruits of AD 2000, by Willys K. Braun, traces the contributions of the previous movements toward AD 2000, and The Discipling of a Nation, by James K. Montgomery and Donald A. McGavran, is a detailed presentation of Christ the Only Way Movement.

III. Course Outline

	Unit: Movement	Lesson	Assignment
1.	Introduction	Syllabus and Assignments	Questionnaire
2.	Evangelism-in-Depth	Organization: History, Strategy, Structure, Calendar
3.		Ideas: Philosophy, Approach, Attitudes, Principles, Objectives
4.		Observer's Comments
5.		Context: Positive Aspects, Negative Aspects
6.		Results: Ch. Growth, Impression, Fruits, Recommendations
7.		Negative Evaluation: Limits, George Peters, Willys Braun	Quiz next class
8.	New Life for All	Nigeria Beginnings: History, Name, Purposes
9.		Ideas: Philosophy, Doctrine, Aims, and Concerns
10.		Description: Formula, Principles, Definition, Message
11.		Plan: Plan, Activities, and Retreat Time Table
12.		Adminstration: Organization, Personnel, and Implementation
13.		Results: Quantitative andQualitative Results
14.		Evaluation: Positive and Negative Aspects
15.		Cameroon: History and Administration
16.	Christ for All - Zaïre	History, Accomplishments, and Leaders
17.		Administration: Committees on Evangelism
18.		National Coordination: Department of Evangelism, Calendar
19.		Evaluation: Strengths and weaknesses	Quiz next class
20.	Christ the Only Way	History and Main Activity
21.		Activities: Bible studies, Evangelistic Teams, Crusades
22.		Evaluation: Positive and Negative Aspects
23.	D.A.W.N.	Description: Definition, Comments, History
24.		Principles: Objectives, Concern, Ch. Planting, Cooperation
25.		Implementation: Discipleship, Goals, Information, Message
26.		Activities: Research, Information, Message, Orientation, ...
27.		Practical Issues: Workers, Finances, Success Factors
28.		Components: Administration, Objective, Goals, Congress
29.		Summary: Obedience, Resources, Challenge, Collaboration	Quiz next class
30.	AD 2000	Description: History, Vision, Objectives
31.		Methodology and structure
32.		The Zairian Model and Conclusion
33.	Conclusion	Comparaisons	Study for the
34.		Summary 1	final exam in
35.		Summary 2	the next class.
36.		Examen final

Organization

I. History: It’s the Grandfather of all movements for church growth.

Evangelism-in-Depth was sponsored by the Latin American Mission based in San Jose, Costa Rica. Dr. R. Kenneth Strachan, a Presbyterian, was the founder of the movement while director of the mission from 1950-65. The one-year, cyclical strategy was put into practice for eight years (1960-68) and was the basis for ten national campaigns: Nicaragua 1960, Costa Rica 1961, Guatemala 1962, Honduras 1963-64, Venezuela 1964, Bolivia 1965, Dominican Republic 1965, Peru 1967, Colombia 1968, Appalachia 1968. There was a profitable Congress on Evangelism-in-Depth in 1966 at San Jose, Costa Rica with representatives from Latin America, Asia, Africa and the United States. There was an English periodical which was called The Latin American Evangelist.

II. Strategy: five basic considerations were presented.

A. The strategy is national rather than continental in scope.

B. The key to total evangelization lies not with the foreign organizations, nor with the national ministers, but with the sum total of Christian believers.

C. Individual witness needs to be carried out in everyday life and in special efforts to mobilize the all area Christians.

D. It is necessary to bring together the different Church bodies in a united witness.

E. The various evangelistic activities by the diverse groups are to be related to one overall plan that aims at the total and effective evangelization of the territory selected.

III. Structure

A. A national committee on evangelism, made up of denominational leaders to plan a one-year program of evangelism

B. A national office of evangelism with a team of "experts"

C. Preparatory conferences for Christian leaders on national, provincial, and regional levels

D. A three-month study course in witnessing in each church

E. Thousands of prayer cells begun

F. "Every home" visitation program

G. Mass evangelism campaigns on local, provincial, and national levels with a parade as a distinctive feature

IV. Calendar

A. January	Organize committees, start prayer cells
B. February	Train leadership
C. March	Train every Christian
D. April	Train every Christian
E. May	Visitation
F. June	Local Campaigns
G. July	Special Efforts
H. August	Special Efforts
I. September	Regional Campaigns
J. October	Regional Campaigns
K. November	National Campaign
L. December	Follow-up

Ideas

I. Philosophy: We can learn much from movements around us ~ Strachan

The philosophical key to the birth of the movement lie in Strachan's study of three dynamic and growing movements: an anti-Christian group (communism), a pseudo-Christian group (Jehovah's Witnesses), and a non-conventional Christian group (Pentecostalism - Assemblies of God in El Salvador). The point these three movements had in common was their success in mobilizing their total constituency to propagate their beliefs. Strachan concluded therefore that the degree of successful expansion of any movement is in direct relationship to the proportion of successful mobilization of its membership. He drew the conclusion that "this alone and nothing else is the key," a statement which can certainly be debated based on its limited scope, and yet, one which must also be recognized as a significant first step to addressing the problem of a comparatively complacent and introverted Protestant Church in Latin America.

II. Up-ward approach

A. Up - Local to national campaigns

B. Down - National to local campaigns

III. Attitudes

A. Abundant reaping requires abundant sowing.

B. Christians can and must work together in evangelism.

C. When Christians pool evangelism resources, God multiplies.

D. A dedicated minority can make an impact on an entire nation.

E. Evangelism is the only real platform of our unity in Christ.

IV. General Principles

A. Mobilization of every Christian in witness.

B. Mobilization within the framework of the church.

C. Mobilization by local leadership.

D. Mobilization for global objectives.

V. Global Objectives

A. There were two general objectives:

1. Total mobilization of the Christian community.

2. Total evangelization of a given area.

B. There were four particular objectives:

1. The awakening of the dormant potential within each local body

2. The development of a strong national leadership.

3. The development of a strong national church.

4. The evangelization of each stratum and facet of national life

VI. Components

A. It was a revivalist program awakening numerous churches.

B. It was a sowing program with much harvest after the first year.

C. It was a training program for the churches and believers.

D. It was a year-long prayer program.

E. It was a radical, intensive, biblical, discipleship program.

F. It was a focusing, fervent, all-out evangelistic program.

G. It was a four-fold technical program

1. Organization

2. Cooperation

3. Time schedule

Observers’ Comments

I. From a flip chart

A. it was a conscientious attempt to mobilize all Christians in a nation or area

B. It was a conscientious attempt to evangelize all non-Christians in that area

C. It was a conscientious attempt to reach them in all of their personal and social structures and relationships

D. It was a conscientious attempt to reach them with the whole Gospel of Christ, announcing preeminently its simple kerygma (Christ died for our sins, was buried, rose, and is coming again)

E. It was a conscientious attempt to proclaim the Gospel in the context of its ethical implications and to express its social concern for the total welfare of those from whom response is sought

II. From Dr. R. Kenneth Strachan

A. It was a formal effort to relate in a long-range program the best elements of personal witness and mass evangelism

B. It was the continuous testimony of the local church linked with the total witness of the entire body of Christ

C. It was a challenge to all Christian bodies to plan and carry out their respective evangelistic programs in a simultaneous, coordinated effort

D. It was a personal summons to many individuals to take the Lord's command seriously and to adventure with other Christians in obedient involvement and witness in the world

E. It was a return to apostolic patterns of evangelism rather than a new strategy

III. Lores

A. It was a methodical structure in which there is a combination of several methods

B. It was a missionary strategy which involves the guiding principle to match all resources with all opportunities and needs

C. It was an organizational structure which provides the spiritual and psychological atmosphere necessary for the application of the principle

D. It was a base of theological, sociological, and methodological principles

E. It was a theological foundation which could be described as an ellipse whose two foci were the Great Commission of the Church and the unity of the body of Christ.

IV. Dayton Roberts

A. It was mobilization

B. It was simultaneous and cooperative evangelism

C. It was a philosophy of evangelism, a program of activities, and an indispensable attitude.

D. It was a "depth" movement

E. It was a radical departure from traditional patterns and philosophy in evangelism.

F. It was a mood, a spirit, a conviction born of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of men.

G. It was a training program producing men of vision, valor, insight & effective evangelism

V. Willys K. Braun

A. It was a national bureau which responded to national program needs concerning information, correspondence, publicity, and finances.

B. It was prayer conferences bringing pastors from various denominations together in a common goal and task, thus replacing the distrust, separation, distance, competition, and bad memories.

C. It was a study program for soul winners of any congregation setting the goal to recruit mobilize every believer in the task of evangelism.

D. It was trained, faithful church members going out on home visitation and a timid, hesitant minority discovering a new identity and a boldness of spirit.

E. It was small congregations inviting evangelists to spend weeks with them conducting crusades which attracted many new families to the church.

F. It was Protestants renting the stadium in the nation’s capital and announcing on the radio and in newspapers a worship service where all the churches would gather one Sunday of the year.

G. It was a parade where the members of the Protestant churches would march to the stadium carrying their bibles and their banners.

H. It was a journal published and sent to other countries of Latin America and Africa, stimulating much interest in the movement.

Positive Evaluation

I. It contributed to Church Growth

Country	Professions of faith	Net gain
Nicaragua	2,604	624
Guatemala	20,000	4,800
Bolivia	19,212	4,608
Peru	25,000	6,000
Costa Rica	3,153	756
Venezuela	17,791	4,280
Dominican Republic	11,800	2,832
Colombia	22,000	unknown

II. It left a good impression on the local churches.

A. The movement did not insist that all denominations must cooperate

1. The decision as to who is eligible to cooperate was made by the missionaries and the nationals of the country targeted. A doctrinal statement often determined eligibility.

2. The movement never succeeded in mobilizing the entire Church, nor even all the Protestant community; the range of Protestant involvement was from 65% to 85%.

B. No cooperating pastor felt that his church was hurt theologically, spiritually, or morally by their participation

1. No cooperating pastor felt his church's loyalty to the denomination was weakened.

2. No cooperating pastor felt his church's attitude toward theological liberalism and the ecumenical movement was weakened.

C. Most pastors felt that their churches benefited from it.

1. Most pastors felt that it was the greatest thing to happen in their communities.

2. More than 90% of the pastors would participate again in such an evangelistic thrust.

III. It was a very fruitful ministry.

A. There were nine years of fruitful ministries in nine Latin American countries.

B. The movement uncovered unnoticed and unknown national evangelists.

C. Its training program trained around 8,000 leaders and 140,000 lay Christians.

D. Its school of prayer developed over 25,000 prayer cells.

E. Its visitation program contacted more than a million homes in a given campaign year. Over 100,000 professions of faith were recorded during that same time.

F. One of the most significant, but immeasurable, products of the movement was a new zeal, a new enthusiasm, and a new boldness to speak the Word of God.

IV. Recommendations: There is room for improvement

A. Add to the concept of total mobilization that of relevance of message and cultural adaptation.

B. Add to the emphasis on every home, village, town, city, and strata that of the total home, village, town, city, and strata.

C. Distinguish the different and appropriate forms of evangelization:

1. Confrontation: one-on-one, individual

2. Permeation: personal, family, group saturation

3. Infiltration: indirect, Christian education, fellowship

D. Integrate a follow-up, training program: Bible studies.

E. Erase the impression that E/D is a terminal program.

F. Communicate that E/D is a growing, expanding movement.

Negative Evaluation

I. It made a limited contribution to Church Growth

A. For Many, there was No spiritual regeneration

B. For many, it was An incomplete Christian experience

C. Many made a Superficial assent to the truth

1. Intellectual

2. Temporary

3. Sincere, but misplaced faith

D. Many received Christ with Confused motivation

1. A protest to past religion

2. Personality cult of the evangelist

3. Incompleteness and emptiness in their lives

4. Inadequate knowledge of the Gospel

E. The Church was ill-prepared and irrelevant to welcome new believers.

1. Inadequate follow-up

2. The non-contextualized, Western church

3. The structured, hierarchical church

F. Many who participated in E/D felt a Reluctance to socially dislocate.

II. George Peters maintained that 72% of the professions would have happened without E/D.

A. There were 4% less converts in subsequent years.

B. The net gain in professions was 24%.

C. The rise in professions was not reflected in Church Growth

D. The claims of Church Growth were supported with little statistical proof

E. Willys Braun refutes this Peters’ view.

1. He claims that the Church grew wherever E/D went.

2. Alliance records seem to bear this out.

3. Other churches maintain they grew significantly.

III. It failed as a continuous movement of evangelism

A. It was too exhausting in its drive, demands, and promotion

1. Much fruit was lost.

2. The congregation sat back for a breathing spell.

3. There was much follow-up to do afterwards.

B. The role of outside coordinators created a leadership vacuum.

1. There was no general continuity in the first seven countries.

2. Insiders were inadequately indoctrinated in E/D.

3. Outsiders familiar with E/D were thus imported.

C. There was an air of messianic expectation.

1. Revival and evangelism were bound up in a famous name.

2. There was disillusionment & conclusion when the name was gone.

D. The timing of the campaign tended to deflate the overall work.

1. It constituted the climax of a year-long program.

2. The national campaign communicated the end of the program.

IV. Willys Braun says that some church leaders did not participate.

A. A new group of evangelical leaders (not Catholics or liberals) believed they were defending the faith by criticizing the movement.

B. They saw too many risks and dangers in participating with liberals.

C. From 1970 - 1989, there were no national movements of evangelism in Latin America

D. Each denomination did what seemed right, according to their own program.

Beginnings

I. History

New Life for All is an indigenous Nigerian evangelistic movement aiming to preach by united effort the Gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ to every creature, first in Nigeria and eventually in all of Africa. It was born in the heart of Rev. Gerald O. Swank, a missionary of the Sudan Interior Mission. Total evangelization of Africa became his consuming passion (Jn. 4:34, 17:4). N.L.F.A. is not an African adaptation of E/D because the main principles were developed in the 1950's before E/D had been launched as a program. A conference with W. Dayton Roberts of the Latin American Mission and reports on E/D did, however, greatly encourage and strengthen the imagination of Mr. Swank after 1962, and he acknowledges his great debt to Kenneth Strachan. After his 1962 furlough, Mr. Swank found strong support for his ideas among the Sudan Interior Mission missionaries. Later, he shared his burden and vision with the national pastor of the Evangelical Churches of West Africa (S.I.M. related). A retreat was held on June 20, 1963 with eight S.I.M. missionaries and nine leaders from E.C.W.A. churches. A discussion on which churches to invite to participate, and it was decided that those of the Council of Evangelical Churches of Northern Nigeria would be invited, along with the Methodists and the Assemblies of God. A Mr. Kastner sent a letter to the two provinces of Zaria and Plateau, inviting them to a meeting in Jos for August 1, 1963; they would develop a plan of united effort for total evangelism of their missions areas. The following churches and missions decided to form an organization to accomplish this:

Þ Anglican Church (Church Missionary Society - evangelical wing)

Þ Nigerian Baptist Convention (Southern Baptists)

Þ Assemblies of God Church and Mission

Þ The Church of Christ in the Sudan (Sudan United Mission related)

Þ The Evangelical Churches of West Africa (S.I.M. related)

Þ Methodist Church (British Methodists)

Þ Sudan Interior Mission

Þ Sudan United Mission

Þ United Missionary Church in Africa

Þ United Missionary Society

II. The Name

The name was not lightly chosen. It was felt that the name, Evangelism-in‑ Depth was not indigenous to Africa, not did it accurately describe the task. They wanted a name that would not offend Muslims or other non-Christians, and yet, one that would have a salvation meaning, express the concept of total evangelization, and catch the attention of the non-Christian population. The motto of the Baptist campaign in Japan was carefully looked at, New Life for You; it was modified to New Life for All.

The movement has expanded over most of Nigeria, except in the East because of the war. It has not succeeded in permeating the South due to ecclesiastical indifference, although the Anglicans, the Methodists and a Baptist minority are trying to establish it. Outside of Nigeria, workshops and retreats were at first conducted in Niger, Upper Volta, Mali, Sierra Leone, and the Ivory Coast. Permission has been granted to translate the N.L.F.A. materials into as many as twelve different languages. Later, the N.L.F.A. office worked together with the Nairobi office of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa and Madagascar in setting up conferences.

III. Purposes

In July, 1968, the West African Congress on Evangelism convened on the campus of the University of Nigeria in the city of Ibadan. It was sponsored jointly by the Nigerian Evangelical Fellowship and New Life for All. Its purposes were stated as follows:

To define again the gospel message of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ as recorded in the Scriptures.

Þ To establish the relevance of this message in meeting the needs of West Africa today.

Þ To impress upon W.African Christians the responsibility to present this message to all people.

Þ To investigate such methods of evangelism as may be most appropriate for West Africa.

Þ To provide a medium in which mutual help may be obtained by West African Christians through a sharing of ideas, concerns, and ministries.

"New Life for All in Nigeria enjoyed a brilliant success for several years and exported its concepts effectively in the 68-70 period. So much more was possible had evangelical leaders rallied round these efforts, but the Lord's people are often trained to defend their position rather than advance by faith into new terrain by faith, and the movement died out both in Nigeria and among its imitators." (Dr. Willys K. Braun)

Ideas

I. Philosophy

The total Church worshipping must become the total Church militant in Christian witnessing and evangelism. The total mobilization of the Church and each local church must be achieved if the task of total evangelism is to be accomplished. Total evangelization of the lost requires total mobilization of the saved. The traditional tendency to make the church building the center of its main activities must be replaced by the practice of emphasizing the necessity of going out to where the lost are found. The church as a structure and place is the rallying point where the believers are mobilized and trained for effective ministries and then are sent out into the world to do the evangelizing. The believers fan out in small teams into the entire community to bring the Gospel into every home and, if possible, to every individual. The church must cease to live for herself. She must become an outgoing, aggressive body of living witnesses. The church must be a going and sending church. The orders are to march into the world and possess it for the Lord.

II. Doctrine: New Life for All is interdenominational and evangelical, believing:

A. In one God, the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit (Mt. 28:19).

B. In the divine authority and plenary inspiration of the Word of God as originally given (II Tim. 3:16).

C. In the fallen nature of man and his need of regeneration by the Holy Spirit through faith alone in Jesus Christ (Rm.3:23;Ti.3:5,6)

D. In the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, His death and blood shed for our sins, His bodily resurrection from the dead for our justification, and in the expectation of His personal return to earth to reign in power and glory (Lk. 1:26-35; I Cor. 15:3,4; I Th. 1:7,8).

E. That it is the responsibility of all believers to bear witness of Christ to all men by a godly life and public testimony in the power and under the direction of the Holy Spirit (Ac.1:8;Mt.5:16).

III. General Aims

A. To prepare and equip all believers for an all-out evangelism.

B. To work only through the established churches at their invitation.

C. To work in a united effort to take the Gospel to every creature, leaving no one.

IV. Concerns (taken from the pamphlet, "MARVELOUS in Our Eyes")

A. Our concern for evangelism as the priority activity of the Church

· In the light of Scripture and the primary place that evangelism must have in our churches, certainly there a need for a complete program that will insure the proclamation of the Gospel to all people in a given area. there are several reasons which make this very urgent today:

B. Failure of church members as witnesses

C. Inadequacy of our present program and methods

D. Population increase and indifference to the message of the Gospel

E. Character of this age in which the Bible, our faith in Christ, and our hope of heaven are being challenged

F. Churches often opposed to one another

G. Churches facing inward rather than toward the fields

H. Increased opposition: Islam on the march, spread of the sects, Marxist ideology

I. A slack attitude in many churches toward evangelism.

1. Lack of vigorous young people who want to serve the Lord.

2. Many feel that the job is done, and there is no more challenge.

Description

I. Formula

A. Our formula: Mobilization x Witness = Evangelization

B. The Possibility of successful evangelism,

1. The total membership of the church must be brought together for continuous witnessing.

2. This must be done in obedience of the Word of God and by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. This was the practice of the first-century church. Is it possible to mobilize all Christians? How do we do it?

II. Principles (Taken from the pamphlet, "MARVELOUS in our eyes")

A. The total mobilization of all believers

· “Every Christian without exception, according to his talents and circumstances, is called upon to be a witness for Christ. The first goal, even though the final result may fall short, is the mobilization of the total membership.”

B. The Church is God's instrument for evangelism.

· “This personal witness must center in the fellowship of the local church. The church then begins to function as it should.”

C. Total witness must be united witness.

1. “This personal and church witness must relate to the total witness of the entire Body of Christ. Therefore, in some practical way, without compromise, a living witness must be given to the unity of the Body of Christ. Since there is only one Lord and Savior and only one Gospel, it is imperative that those who believe in Him should unite in their testimony to Him.”

2. Unrelated evangelistic efforts are good, but not enough.

D. Total evangelization can be the only aim.

1. “The witness of all must aim at nothing less than total and complete outreach. Therefore, we should think in terms of natural geographic or language areas. In this way we can fact the problem of fulfilling our responsibility.”

2. A careful, systematic program is needed. Preparation, outreach, and effort are ingredients.

III. Definition

A. What it is not

1. It is not a new missionary society or merely a mission project.

2. It is not a movement for church unity in the ecumenical sense.

3. It is not seeking to tell others how they ought to evangelize, implying that they do not know.

4. It is not to depend upon the program for success, but upon the Spirit, the Lord of the harvest.

B. What it is

1. A biblical movement: It is based on the Great Commission as recorded in Mark 16:15,16, with emphasis upon every creature.

2. A thoroughly indigenous movement: Missionary involvement is minimal. The work of evangelism is to be done primarily by Nigerians and control to be placed in the hands of the local church.

3. A simple and inexpensive movement: Literature will be used extensively and funds needed, but the use of expensive equipment will be discouraged.

4. A continuing movement: The church will continue the work alone.

IV. Message

A. God gave life to man. Genesis 1-2

B. Man rejected life. Genesis 3

C. God provided new life in Christ John 3:16.

D. Man must accept the new life. John 1:12

E. New life is seen through man. 2 Corinthians 5:17

Plan

I. Plan (It centers around prayer) Zechariah 4:6

A. Preparation

1. Church leaders must be brought together

2. Committees formed

3. Initial plans put into action

4. Literature developed

5. A calendar of events laid out

B. Information

· This means bringing together the entire Christian leadership in a given area for a retreat to wait upon the Lord and to consider the evangelistic task before us.

C. Instruction

· Believers engage in weekly classes based on the handbook, to help others find life in Christ.

D. Evangelization

· Intensive efforts will be made, usually beginning in October and running on to March, to reach every soul for Christ. This will be done by house-to-house visitation, together with witnessing and literature distribution, etc. We want to combine all efforts in order to mobilize the greatest possible number of Christians. We want to make a strong impact upon the entire area. We want the Christians to embark upon the practice of continuous outreach and activity.

E. Confirmation (follow-up)

· Going along with the evangelism must be a carefully planned and executed follow-up program, included instruction to new converts, organization of new congregations, and strengthening of friendship between local congregations.

F. Evaluation

· This is looking back to see what real lasting results have been obtained. The attendance at crusades and numbers of decisions, while encouraging, are not the final mark of success. But rather, success will have to be measured by the continued witness of Christians and churches.

II. Activities

A. House-to-house visitation for the purpose of explaining the Gospel to each family

B. Open-air evangelism to alert the crowds and present the good news to the masses

C. Literature distribution of selected tracts and gospel portions, some of which were printed by New Life for All

D. Local church conferences to preach the Gospel in a given community

E. United evangelistic campaigns in stadiums to attract the crowds of larger cities

F. Gospel teams composed of laymen to be sent to unreached areas, villages, & tribes

G. Radio programs

III. A Retreat Timetable for Christian Workers

Begin	End	Activity
6:00	7:00	Prayer
7:00	8:00	Breakfast
8:00	8:45	Message (worker oriented)
8:45	10:00	Leader's guide book
10:00	10:15	Break
10:15	11:30	Handbook instruction
11:30	12:30	Handbook small group discussion
12:30	3:00	Break
3:00	3:30	Prayer specific requests
3:30	4:30	Questions and discussion on leader's book
4:30	5:30	Committee meetings
5:30	8:00	Break
8:00	9:00	Message (church oriented)

Administration

I. Committees (meet Monthly)

A. District Executive Committee - 2 representatives from each Area

B. Area committee - 2 representatives from each church in zone

1. Area may have about 10 centers of worship

2. Area committee meets every month

3. A training college may become an area

4. A city with more than one denomination becomes an area

C. Church committee - 2 representatives to area committee

II. Personnel

A. Chairman

B. Treasurer

C. Secretary

D. Literature distributor

E. Prayer secretary

F. Organizer for evangelism

G. Women's representative

H. School organizer

I. Instructor

III. Implementation Factors

A. A carefully thought-out geographical strategy

· Historically, Nigeria has been divided into north and south.

B. Ecclesiastically, there has been a marked division.

1. The South is occupied mainly by denominations

2. The north is occupied mainly by interdenominational missions

C. Ethnically, there was one target group, the Hausa-speaking people.

1. The two provinces were considered a pilot project to spread later.

2. A concentration of effort seemed necessary for indigenous support.

D. It seemed prudent to establish realistic and realizable goals.

1. A series of retreats for Christian workers

2. Open revivalist meetings

3. Conferences: 1600 leaders attended for instruction

a) How to begin and promote cottage prayer meetings

b) How to establish instruction classes

(1) The churches were ready to respond to the challenge

(2) A total of 7000 intercessory groups met everyday the 1st year

(3) The average attendance at a prayer cell was 8 people.

(4) 50-60,000 believers met everyday of the week to pray for revival and effective evangelism.

(5) 30,000 believers attended instruction classes.

(6) 24,000 completed the handbook examination on visitation.

4. Gospel teams

a) Groups of laymen from four to seven in number

b) Special instruction

c) Sacrifice of two weeks to three months to be full-time

d) Two thousand converts in one month for two hundred volunteers

5. Crusades

a) City campaigns

b) Gospel parades

c) Stadium rallies

Results

I. Quantitative Results

A. The preaching of the Gospel in every village of the target area

B. The penetration of the Gospel into every home or compound

C. The enlargement of many congregations

1. Attendance increases of 25% to 50% were not unusual.

2. There was a 15% to 35% increase in baptisms in one year.

D. A significant increase in the number of churches

1. From 1964 to 1967, churches went from 918 to 1,116.

2. Membership increased from 21,000 to 42,000.

3. Average Sunday attendance reached 300,000-350,000 in 1967.

E. The expansion into over 100 new villages areas with Gospel teams

F. The increased awareness of a dynamic Christian movement

G. Miracle manifestations: healings, conversions, testimonies

H. The increase in prayer cells

1. 7,000 daily prayer cells

2. 50,000 to 60,000 daily participants

II. Qualitative Results

A. Prayer: It became the priority of the home.

1. Prayer moved from the church into the home

2. Regular exercise of prayer leading to remarkable answers

B. Witness: People became more and more aware of the movement.

1. Everyone's business now

2. Not just the business of the missionary and the pastor

C. Evangelism: It became the priority of the Church.

1. A newly integrated, ongoing and dynamic factor in the church

2. A change in the goal of the pastor's sermons

3. The attraction of Muslims to the churches

4. The normal rather than the unusual activity of the Church

D. Missions: Local Churches became missionary agents.

1. Sending and being sent has become part of the church's life

2. A self-sustaining movement for total mobilization

3. The sending forth of Gospel teams to unreached Nigeria

4. A serious confrontation between Muslims and Christians

5. The vision of missions caught by the churches

E. Cooperation: People became interested in the whole body of Christ.

1. A knowledge and appreciation of the whole body of Christ

2. The joy and unity of a common task

3. The enrichment of their personal and collective fellowships

4. The strengthening of their faith in working out difficulties

F. Instruction: The manual and the writings combined theory and practice.

1. The concreteness of the handbook and the material distributed

2. The completeness of theoretical coupled with practical

3. The confidence in simplicity and solidity of instruction

G. Bible study and Christian ministry: There was renewed interest in full-time service.

1. The increase in interest in Bible college studies

2. The overcrowding of most Bible institutes.

H. Self-discovery: The Nationals did a lot without outside help.

1. Local and indigenous ingenuity

2. Tailored flexibility according to local needs and resources

3. No technical advisors: Indoctrination rather than direction by advisors

Evaluation

I. Positive Aspects

A. It was Primarily a movement of renewal

B. Evangelism was the central focus point

C. It was An organized effort to mobilize every member of the Church

D. It was An organized effort to utilize all resources for total evangelism

1. A specific and realizable strategy

2. A specific schedule of events (calendar)

3. A specific methodology

4. A specific organization

5. A specific message (found in the first manual)

E. It was An organized effort of evangelism with dependence on supernatural

F. There was A built-in element of maturing and enriching life of church

II. Negative Aspects

A. There was a Lack of time for adequate preparation of revolutionary concepts

1. Lay involvement in evangelism

2. Deeper dimensions of the responsibility to evangelize

3. A sense of lack of direction

B. There was a Lack of sufficient, unifying, and directive leadership

· The insufficiency of one 3-5 day retreat

C. There was a Lack of personnel

· Weakness inherent in flexibility, creativity, indigeneity

D. There was a Lack of doctrinal depth, comprehension, clarity and dynamism

1. Sufficient illumination to the Gospel

2. Insufficient regeneration based on that illumination

3. The precarious and nebulous spiritual condition of many

E. There was a Lack of understanding of the relationship between the cultural upheaval and the turmoil within the soul

1. The turmoil of being uprooted from traditional values

2. The facing of an uncertain and unknown future

3. The longing for security and belonging

4. An assent to the truth, but not a consent to the Savior

5. A preparation for conversion, but not conversion

F. There was a Lack of emphasis on follow-up (vs. an emphasis on evangelism)

1. Lack of system, enthusiasm and depth in follow-up

2. Large numbers of superficial converts

3. The paganization of the church

III. Recommendations

A. The ideology, methodology and program should be strengthened.

B. An extensive teaching program must be instituted and carried out.

C. The second stage in church growth needs implementation: the converts need illumination, faith, transformation, and a church home.

IV. Commentary by Dr. Willys Braun

“New Life for All experienced spectacular success for many years and spread its ideas effectively from 1968-1970. It would have done even more if evangelical leaders had rallied around its efforts, but the people of God subscribed to the notion that they had to defend their position rather than advance by faith onto new territory. The movement died in Nigeria as it did in the countries which followed its example.”

History and Administration

I. History

Dr. Willys Braun made three trips to Cameroon to talk over the possibility of forming a national committee of evangelism. Finally, during his third trip, denominational leaders named a national committee which spent two days drawing up a two-year program of evangelism. God provided a man to work out the daily details of the work; he was a Norwegian Lutheran named Bjorn Bue. He was released from his duties in the Evangelical Lutheran Church to serve as secretary of the National Committee of Evangelism. He became coordinator of the movement and gave leadership to the committee from 1969-79. They adopted the name of the Nigerian movement and adapted those principles to the Cameroonian situation. Later, Pastor Emmanuel Hondt was released from his responsibilities in the E.P.C. (Presbyterian Church of Cameroon) and became acting itinerant coordinator of the campaign. Reverend Bue was later named bishop by the Lutheran Church, is currently living in Norway, and remains actively involved with the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization.

II. Administration of a Denominational Department of Evangelism

A. The name was The Committee of Evangelism and Christian Education.

B. The goals were set.

1. To group the children, youth, men, and women

2. To strengthen and enrich them in the Christian faith with regular meetings and Bible studies

3. To mobilize them to witness in their daily lives

4. To organize evangelistic campaigns to win others for Christ

C. The members were elected by the General Assembly

1. They are representatives of the six regions.

2. The President is elected for two years; he may be reelected.

a) He presides over one or two meetings a year.

b) He prepares the agenda of the meetings with coordinator.

3. The Coordinator calls the meetings.

4. The Secretary prepares the reports of the meetings.

D. There were six sub-committees:

1. Approach - Evangelization of Muslims

2. J.E.C.A. - Evangelical Youth of Cameroon

3. Sunday School

4. New Life for All

5. Chaplains

a) Chaplain of the Protestant High School

b) Chaplain of the University

6. G.B.E.E.C. - Bible Study Groups

E. Activities were planned.

1. Evangelistic weekends were held in several places in South Cameroon with Dr. Zacharias Fomum, the "Billy Graham of Cameroon."

2. Evangelistic meetings were held in Douala, Victoria, Muyuka, Mamfe, and Buea.

F. Facilities were constructed.

1. Cameroon has a national office of evangelization in Cameroon.

2. The three‑ story building is known as the Center for National Evangelism.

3. On the ground floor, there are offices, a bookstore, and a room for the printer.

4. The first floor has a meeting hall and a library.

5. The second floor has facilities for retreats and Bible courses.

History, Accomplishments, and Leaders

I. History

Zaïre was the first francophone country to organize a nationwide movement of evangelism. The movement came into being in 1966 largely as a result of the vision of a Methodist pastor, Dr. Pierre Shaumba, General Secretary of the Congo Protestant Council. He contacted Willys Braun in February of that year and asked him to compose nationwide plan of evangelism to be presented to the general assembly a few days later. A first-draft of the plan was inspired by Dr. Strachan's book, Evangelism-in-Depth. In the general assembly meeting, a combined body of delegates from all the denominations in Zaïre debated and voted to approve the formation of a national committee of evangelism made up of representatives of the various denominations. The Christ for All movement was the first cooperative effort involving all denominations, and its realization led to the creation of the Church of Christ in Zaire (E.C.Z.), a legal entity uniting 62 Protestant denominations in Zaire. A national department of evangelism was set up within this framework, and there are currently seven offices in the Church of Christ (E.C.Z.) building in downtown Kinshasa. Its first Zairian coordinator was the Reverend Mavumilusa Makanzu who served from 1968 to 1980. The movement waned towards the latter years of Makanzu's life. In 1978, Dr. Donald McGavran, dean of 20th-century missions, made a trip to Zaïre and attested to the manifesting of God's power within this framework. Zaïre's example has inspired similar movements in Ghana, Cameroon, Burundi, Central African Republic, Gabon, Rhodesia, Madagascar, South Africa, Liberia, and Egypt.

After five years of stagnation, a second Zairian movement grew out of the first, Win and Grow for Christ. The Church of Christ in Zaïre (E.C.Z.), a legal entity made up of 62 Protestant denominations, was the structure through which this outgrowth movement found its impetus. The second national coordinator was the Reverend Doctor Marini who lived and worked in Kinshasa, Zaïre. Bishop Bokeleale, president of the E.C.Z., along with the national evangelist, Doctor Mengi, collaborated closely with Doctor Mengi to spearhead this movement.

When the five-year mandate for Win and Grow for Christ was completed, the Department of Evangelism for the E.C.Z. launched a third movement of evangelism called All for Christ, which will continue until AD2000. The third national coordinator was Reverend Doctor Diafwila.

II. Accomplishments

A. The introduction of a 24-month program of evangelistic activities from 1966-68.

B. The establishment of a permanent national department of evangelism

C. The inspiration behind the formation of the E.C.Z.

D. The appointment of the first national evangelist, Dr. Makanzu, who became the Zairian Churches' great Christian writer to date.

E. The appointment of the first urban evangelist, Masiala, who introduced and maintained the tent ministry to Kinshasa; he served the E.C.Z. for 20 years.

F. The introduction of many great evangelists to Zaire, notably from the U.S., China, South America, Uganda, New Zealand, and France.

G. The message that Protestants were not an insignificant minority in a Roman Catholic country, but that they had a vital contribution to make to the community.

III. Leaders in Africa

Country	Key Leaders	Key Leaders
Nigeria	Reverend Jerry Swank	Reverend James Bellamy
Zaïre	Dr. Pierre Shaumba, Dr. Willys Braun , Dr. Mavumilusa Makanzu	Bishop Bokeleale, Dr. Marini, Dr. Mengi, Dr. Diafwila
C.A.R.	Reverend Wayne Beaver, Grace Breth.
Cameroon	Reverend Bjorn Bue, Lutheran	Rev. Emmanuel Hondt, Presby.
Ghana	Reverend Peter Barker, Presbyterian Mr. William Ofori-Atta	Reverend Ross Campbell, W.E.C. Reverend Felix Maafo
Egypt	Reverend Younan Georggi, Pentecostal
Liberia	Dr. William Tolbert, Baptist	Bishop S. Trowen, Nagbe Methodist Reverend John Russel, Methodist
Burundi	Reverend George Thomas
Rhodesia	Reverend Gary Strong
Malawi	Mr. Jack Selfrige
Sierra Leone	Mr. Paul Dekker

Administration

I. The national committee of evangelism

A. A committee of evangelism is formed with delegates from each denomination.

B. A plan is laid out by the committee for the nation's churches.

C. An experienced leader from a past national movement is invited to the committee's first meeting to discuss the movement's formation.

D. The distribution of the finished plan and other literature to the lower levels is settled by the committee.

E. A national coordinator of evangelism is named for four years.

F. A national office of evangelism is made available to the coordinator and staff.

G. The committee establishes annual meetings to set the country's spiritual direction for the next year.

II. Regional committees on evangelism

A. Regional committees on evangelism are set up with delegates from each of the participating denominations.

B. A plan is laid out for the region's participation.

C. The national coordinator of evangelism should be present in the committee's first meeting to discuss regional participation in the movement.

D. The distribution of a progress report and other literature to the lower levels is settled by the committee.

E. A regional coordinator of evangelism is named for four years.

F. A regional office of evangelism is made available to the coordinator and staff.

G. The committee establishes bi-annual meetings to set the region's spiritual direction for the next six months.

III. Denominational committees on evangelism

A. Denominational committees on evangelism are set up with delegates chosen from each participating church.

B. A plan is laid out for the denomination's participation.

C. The regional coordinator of evangelism should be present in the committee's first meeting to discuss denominational involvement in the movement.

D. The distribution of a progress report and other literature to each of the denomination's churches is settled by the committee.

E. A denominational coordinator of evangelism is named for four years.

F. A denominational office of evangelism is made available to the coordinator & staff.

G. The committee establishes tri-annual meetings to set the denomination's spiritual direction for the next four months.

IV. Church committees on evangelism

A. Church committees on evangelism are set up with delegates from the membership.

B. A plan is laid out for the church's participation.

C. The denominational coordinator of evangelism should be present in the committee's first meeting to discuss church involvement in the movement.

D. The distribution of a progress report and other literature to each of the church's members is settled by the committee.

E. A church coordinator of evangelism is named for four years.

F. An office of evangelism is made available to the coordinator and the committee.

G. The committee establishes monthly meetings to set the church's spiritual direction for the next month.

National coordination

I. The Department of Evangelism

Staff

Office

Sub-Committees

Coordination

Þ Coordinator

Þ Clerk (secretary)

Þ A fund raiser

Þ A consultant

Þ A travel agent

Location

Þ In a key city

Þ An airport

Þ Electricity

Þ Telephone

Prayer

Þ Evangelism

Þ Home

Þ Campaigns

Þ Counseling

Literature

Þ A writer

Þ A translator

Þ A printer

Þ A publisher

Þ A distributor

Facilities

Þ Light and space

Þ Easy access

Literature

Þ Production: Newsletter

Þ Translation

Þ Printing

Þ Publishing

Þ Distribution

Teaching

Þ Teacher of Evangelism

Þ Teacher of Establishment

Þ Teacher of Equipping

Þ Teacher of Expansion

Equipment needed

Þ Computer & printer

Þ Typewriter

Þ Files

Þ Mimeograph or photocopier

Þ Desk

Þ Shelving

Bible study

Þ Evangelistic

Þ Establishment

Þ Equipping

Þ Expansion

Information

Þ Orientation

Þ Collaboration

Þ Campaigns

Þ Church planting

Budget

Þ Percentage of local church offerings

Þ Giving re-oriented towards evangelism

Þ Salary, office supplies, and travel

Evaluation

Þ Research

Þ Statistics

Þ Interpretation

Þ Addresses / Data Base

II. Calendar of Activities

January	Prayer	Posters, Program of prayer Themes, Scripture texts, Group Organization, Church meetings, Home cells
February	Prayer Cells	Organization of groups of 5-10 people in homes. Mobilization of whole Church.
March	Witness course	Leaders’ Retreat for orientation: Teacher’s Manual given, Weekly Course in Church: Learner’s manual of 13 lessons given
April	Witness course	Weekly Course in Church: Learner’s manual of 13 lessons given
May	Witness course	Weekly Course in Church: Learner’s manual of 13 lessons given
June	Visitation	Every House Witness
July	Gospel Teams	Groups of 5-10 people Rural -Village to village / Urbain-Section to section
August	Exchange of pastors	Father/Son Banquet, Big Brother/Big Sister Program
September	Bible Literature	Bibles, New Testaments, Tracts, Training Manuals
October	Sunday School	Contest
November	Three Friends	Campaign, Prayer, and Invitations
December	Crusades Þ Local Þ Urban Þ Regional Þ National	The invitation of international evangelists Christian advertising by literature, radio, and television Local evangelistic parades Tent evangelism National campaign in the nation’s capital

Evaluation

I. It added new ideas to the evangelism-in-depth model

A. It was a two-year program instead of one.

B. A national committee of evangelism directed the movement instead of a team from another country. This committee created 24 monthly projects and a calendar for Zaïre, based on the model from Latin America and adapted to Zairian experiences.

C. The department of evangelism begun in 1968 continues today. Its three directors have their Ph.D. This is unique in Africa, perhaps in the world.

D. This program has made a profound impact on the Zairian church: deliverance of Zairian Protestants from their inferiority complex when comparing themselves to Catholics. The movement produced a joyful confidence and courageous hope in God. In 1960, the proportion of Catholics to Protests was 5 to 1; in 1993, they were almost 1 to 1 (42.1% Catholic; 36% Protestant).

E. A national evangelist was named. Dr. Makanzu traveled throughout Africa, preaching and winning multitudes to Christ. He brought honor and joy to the title of evangelist. His successors were Dr. Mengi and Dr. Diafwila.

F. He organized the 1^st national congress on evangelism in Zaire. 3 others followed.

G. The biggest francophone country (Zaire) and the biggest anglophone country (Nigeria) began their national movements using the model of evangelism -in-depth.

H. Because Dr. Willys Braun had been named as the head of the Africa Office of Evangelism-in-Depth in Africa in the 60’s, the movement inspired the creation of the mission, Evangelism resources, which continues to inspire church leaders to take part in movements of evangelism.

II. It had inherent weakness.

A. Interdenominational feuding

1. The first denominations resented the coming of the latter ones.

2. The issue of "stolen sheep" created tensions.

3. Historic rivalries were imported from the West.

B. Doctrinal differences

1. The State Church was imported from Europe

2. The Evangelical Church was imported from America

3. The Independent Church was small and struggling, distrustful of the others.

C. Disparate size and power of denominations

1. Smaller churches often hesitated to work with the larger.

2. The impression of power and achievement in one group left them feeling self-sufficient, thereby slowing the work.

3. The evangelicals tended to exclude the often larger, mainline denominations from their efforts.

D. Complacency of the Church

1. The movement was strong from 1966 to 1968, but it became a routine activity. It is now more of a memory than a movement.

2. Dr. Makanzu directed the national department with distinction until his death in 1980. However, the mobilization it generated was centered on his many gifts rather than on the gifts of the Church, so with his loss, the movement waned in importance.

3. Because of the communication problems, the size of Zaire, and the lack of leadership exerted by many pastors, the mobilization of the Church was not total.

History and Main Activity

I. History

A. Three streams converged in the late sixties to form Christ the Only Way Movement:

1. The church growth movement

2. The international, regional, and national congresses on evangelism in which the Filipinos participated

3. The ministry of Overseas Crusade

B. The church growth movement had an impact in Church developments in the Philippines.

1. In 1966, five churches and missions met at Winona Lake, Indiana, for a church growth workshop. Gordon Swanson, Ralph Toliver, and Leonard Tuggy were commissioned by their missions to research church growth in the Philippines.

2. The report, Seeing the Church in the Philippines, was presented at a seminar in Manila in 1970.

3. It made a profound impact on those concerned with Filipino church growth, and later, other nationals and missionaries studied at Fuller School of World Mission in California and returned to the Philippines to implement church growth principles.

C. Congresses on evangelism contributed to interest in discipling the Philippines.

1. In 1966, sixteen Filipinos attended the World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin.

2. These men took no specific action, but they were challenged. In 1968, 60 Filipinos went to the Asia South Pacific Congress held in Singapore.

3. They vowed not to repeat the story of Berlin, and it was decided to compose a plan and program for the evangelization of the whole country.

4. The All Philippines Congress on Evangelism was held in May, 1970.

5. The president and coordinator was Eustaquio (Nene) Ramientos.

6. Under his leadership, the nationals raised 40% of their $10,000 budget.

D. The ministry of O.C. crusades was a stream that converged into the first two.

1. It was based in Manila as Philippine Crusades, a service organization which was to work alongside the national churches in the discipling of the Philippines.

2. The movement officially lasted from 1970 to early 1975.

II. Benefits of Home Bible Study

A. Production of disciples, not just decisions

B. Built-in follow-up, not separate program

C. Rapid multiplication

D. Cost effectiveness

E. Opening to family evangelism

F. Elimination of the fear of entering church building

G. Direct approach to planting of new congregations

H. Incorporation of three biblical principles in one program

1. Evangelism

2. Disciple-making

3. Church planting

Activities

I. James Montgomery played a significant role in the key activity.

A. During the Philippine congress, he proposed the adoption of a plan of evangelistic Bible study groups called LEGS (Lay Evangelistic Group Studies) to penetrate Roman Catholic homes; evangelistic meant that at least half of the participants would be non-Christian.

B. He challenged the Congress delegates meeting at Faith Academy to form 10,000 such study groups within three years, that is, by March 31, 1973.

C. Nene Ramientos not only encouraged the delegates to adopt the proposal, but he led the delegates to establish an on-going structure that would continue to challenge and equip the Church.

D. This was the beginning of "Christ the Only Way Movement."

II. Later, in the movement a goal of 10,000 CORES was set.

A. Small, Christian groups met for prayer, Bible study, and fellowship during the evangelistic effort.

B. They were to be established by March 31, 1973.

III. Mobilization teams known as "Mob squads" were formed.

A. The nation was divided into 17 districts, each covering two or three provinces.

B. Staff, missionaries, and volunteer workers went to the various districts to mobilize the Church by acquainting them with the goals of the movement.

C. About 1,500 additional ministers were contacted in this way. CORE and LEGS manuals were printed to orient the people, and formal congresses were organized in each district.

IV. district congresses were held for 2,000 pastors and workers.

A. At the end of each congress, the delegates on a person to become the full-time district coordinator who would continue to spread the movement to the local churches.

B. Hearing of the program, Dr. Stanley Mooneyham of World Vision began a personal telephone campaign to enlist 17 mission societies in the U.S. to pledge $100.00 a month to support one coordinator each. With the finances provided for the coordinators, many districts provided funding for an assistant coordinator.

V. Literature also contributed to the movement.

A. Philippine Crusades' Crusader Magazine furnished information on the movement.

B. Later, Acts 29 and Spree replaced the publication as the primary source of information on the movement.

VI. Venture for Victory basketball teams challenged national teams.

A. They eventually would play in over 200 games in each of the 17 districts and contact some 200,000 local fans.

B. Over 10,000 signed up for Bible correspondence courses.

C. When the players would subsequently visit the home Bible studies, they would provide the local list on interested spectators, and the local Christians would do the follow-up.

VII. construction teams of 40 Filipinos & 30 young people from Canada, New Zealand, & U.S. were sponsored by World Vision International.

A. They went into the heavily Muslim area of Mindanao for ten months to improve living conditions.

B. They completed 33 major projects such as pavements, a public market water system, school rooms, medical centers, public litter containers and basketball courts.

C. During this time, they saw 370 LEGS started.

VIII. There were also crusades.

A. One Way '74 conducted a series of city-wide evangelistic campaigns in 15 of the 17 districts.

B. Over 11,000 of the 200,000 who attended came forward publicly to commit their lives to Christ.

C. This gave the churches another opportunity to do follow-up work.

IX. In April 1973, LEGS reached its goal of establishing 10,697 home Bible studies.

A. In the Fall of 1972, there had been less than a thousand.

B. In February 1973, they were still short by several thousand.

C. But by the end of March, the growth had accelerated.

D. In addition, 6,538 CORE groups had been started.

E. These two programs provided the foundation of subsequent, massive church planting programs.

X. The last activity was an evangelism/church growth seminar

A. It was held in 1974 with Dr. Vergil Gerber and Donald McGavran.

B. They built on the emphasis of LEGS as an evangelistic method which could efficiently and inexpensively lead to the multiplication of churches.

Description

I. Definition

A. The inspiration comes from Matthew 28:19-20: “Disciple all nations.”

B. The acrostic means “Disciple a whole nation.”

C. It is the name given to a plan for world evangelization which will spread little by little to numerous leaders around the world.

D. It is “the challenge of a whole nation.”

II. Comments

“Dawn is the best strategy which has every been conceived up until now to evangelize the world. It is the most effective system to bring Church Growth principles to the local level in every country.” ~ Peter Wagner

“Dawn is the most basic of all strategies. There are other tasks to do beyond DAWN, but it is a beginning aiming at fulfilling the Great Commission which Jesus entrusted to His disciples.” ~ Ralph Winter, Center for World Missions

“DAWN’s time has come. It is one of the great movements of the 2^nd half of the 20^th century, raised up by God with the goal of fulfilling the Great Commission.” ~ Bernard Camper (MARC)

“DAWN is a one-word summary of the Great Commission. DAWN is the essence of our Lord’s Great Commission.” ~ A Methodist Church Leader, Gweru, Zimbabwe

III. History

A. The founder is Dr. JIm Montgomery.

B. He is always looking for the best way to evangelize the world.

C. DAWN grew out of various influences on His life.

1. The body life of the Church

2. Church Growth thought

3. The Lausanne Movement

4. Evangelism-in-Depth

5. His concern for unreached peoples

D. In the Philippines he had developed Christ The Only Way Movement.

1. He had adapted much of his plan from Evangelism-in-Depth.

a) He incorporated 17 crusades with evangelists from the Billy Graham Association.

b) He established a national goal of 10,000 evangelistic Bible studies,

c) He met that goal on March 31, 1972.

2. But 99% of the Filipino population had still not made a personal decision to follow Christ.

3. What the task impossible?

E. The key is that Christ must be incarnate in each ethnic group on the earth.

1. In the Philippines, there are 35 million Filipinos and 35,000 villages or neighborhoods.

2. There should be a church in each village or neighborhood, that is, 35,000 churches.

3. By AD 2000, there will be a need for 50,000 Filipino churches because of population growth.

4. So, with 5000 existing churches, we need to plant 45,000 churches before AD 2000.

F. In 1974 at the Lausanne World Congress on Evangelism, the Filipino delegates affirmed the goal to plant 45,000 additional churches by AD 2000.

1. In 1980 this goal became official at the DAWN Congress.

2. In the first seventeen years (since 1974), more that 15,000 churches were planted.

3. The goal to plant 50,000 churches before AD 2000 can be realized.

G. Jim Montgomery began DAWN Ministries In 1985 to spread the movement worldwide

1. In 1994, after 19 years of ministry in the Philippines, 18,000 churches were planted and 1.8 million people became Christian.

2. The Church growth rate has increased from 5% to 10%.

3. DAWN projects were begun in 80 countries.

4. DAWN Congresses have established the goal to plant a total of 1.3 new churches by AD 2000.

Principles

I. Objectives

A. DAWN seeks to mobilize all the Churches of a country to win the entire country.

B. DAWN seeks to obey the Great Commission concerning every people in the whole world through the mobilized Church.

II. Great Commission

A. DAWN points out different emphases

1. Make disciples of all nations: “Have a vision for the whole nation.”

2. Make disciples of all nations: “Have a vision for the whole world.”

3. Make disciples of all nations: “Have a vision to make disciples who obey the Great Commission.

B. DAWN makes two Observations

1. These aspects are interdependent.

2. The meaning of each of these concepts compels us to work with the whole body of Christ.

III. concern to reach unreached peoples

A. DAWN looks for organizations describing unreached people groups they intend to evangelize.

B. DAWN is interested in every nation and every unreached people in every nation.

IV. Church Planting

A. DAWN support “the best method under heaven”, Planting new Churches.

B. DAWN uses Church Planting as a starting point for Growth.

C. DAWN Considers each new church as a seed producing 30%, 60%, 100% growth.

V. Cooperation

A. DAWN helps the Church to function as a body: local, denominational, national.

B. DAWN asks for cooperation without sacrifice of identity or doctrine.

C. DAWN takes advantage of the great potential of a denomination.

D. DAWN encourages cooperation between churches and para-Church groups.

E. DAWN encourages the unity & function of each member of the body with the others. Eph. 4:1-16

F. DAWN promotes a lifestyle suitable for a child of God, which distinguishes us from those whom we must bring to Jesus to be saved. Eph. 4:17-32

G. DAWN helps par-Church groups to function with churches.

VI. Step-by-step Approach to Communication

A. DAWN seeks to gain entrance into local churches.

B. DAWN seeks to gain entrance into Christian organizations.

C. DAWN seeks to gain entrance into missionary societies.

D. DAWN seeks to gain entrance into research agencies.

E. DAWN seeks to gain entrance into Christian Schools and among the youth.

F. DAWN seeks to gain entrance into organizations accessing unreached groups.

VII. Goals

A. When a denomination sets goals, it can focus its resources to meet them.

1. It has a built-in structure to make things happen to meet the goals.

2. It has the necessary fellowship and unity to mobilize the resources.

3. It has the power to accomplish something great for the Kingdom.

B. DAWN suggests to denominations that they need to adapt the curriculum of the training school to that of the Church planting School, mobilizing the laity for the effort to change the emphasis from one of maintenance to one of expansion.

VIII. National Strategy

A. DAWN is a reference system for a national strategy, that is to coordinate and integrate resources and plans into a structure.

B. DAWN is not a super-organization, but it provides a systematic way to evaluate cooperative efforts so that strategists can modify their efforts if necessary.

IX. New perspective

A. It leads Churches to a new lifestyle in evangelism and Church planting.

B. It leads Churches, denominations, missions, and para-Church groups to another way of thinking.

Implementation

I. Determine if the Church in a country is making disciples.

Þ Use the biblical definition of a disciple.

Mk. 3:14-15; Lk. 6:40; 14:26-27; Jn. 8:31; 13:34-35; 14:15,21; 15:8

II. Set challenging goals which tap new energy and express faith.

A. Saturation Church Planting (S.C.P.)

· This is planting a cell (church) of Christians in every neighborhood, village, among every social class, so that everyone can hear and see the Gospel demonstrated intimately in his or her own language and have a reasonable opportunity to become a disciple of Jesus Christ.

B. Evangelism

· This will be accomplished when the Church gives itself to taking the Good News to everyone in every people group in every country so that the whole world has a valid opportunity to accept or reject Jesus Christ.

C. Discipleship

· This will be accomplished when the Church makes disciples so that the Holy Spirit can call out those whom he want to go reach the unreached outside of their own country.

D. Missions

· This will be accomplished if the Church does not wait for its entire country to be evangelized before thinking of the unreached peoples beyond their borders.

III. Use Information

Þ The right information at the right time can have a big impact.

IV. Have a Prophetic message for the Church.

Þ Present the scope of the task, proceeding from the local perspective to that of the whole country and all its inhabitants, in a message tailored to show the country and the Church God’s perspective.

V. Show to the Local Church the Context in which it operates.

Þ Present the society in which the church finds itself, revealing its potential response and methods.

VI. Study the denomination itself

Þ Make a report which gives statistics and evaluates the denomination’s spirituality, commitment, programs, growth rate, and fund-raising abilities

1. Its organization structure

2. its goals

3. Its membership

4. Its budget

5. Its methods of evangelism

6. Its methods of discipleship

7. Its methods of leadership training

8. Its methods of Church planting

VII. research targeted areas: local, regional, national, and beyond

Activities

I. Research

Þ A worker trained in Church Growth does the research, analysis, and estimates the execution time necessary

II. information received

A. General Growth factors

· Economy: local, regional, national	· Politics
· Climate	· Relationships

B. Church growth factors

· Population	· Types of growth
· Baptisms	· transfer
· Bibles in the language of the people	· biological
· Churches	· conversion
· Pastors	· Denominational relationships
· Members	· Missionary/denomination relationships
· Training schools	· Methods of evangelism
· Evangelism budget	· Church life
· Cell groups	· Worship style
· Denomination	· Hospitality

III. Development of a prophetic message

A. It is based on the research report.

B. It projects the potential growth rate for the next 5-10 years.

C. A document will be produced and distributed to all the participants of a DAWN Congress, which be subsequently be used in seminars throughout the nation..

IV. Orientation meeting with Church leaders

A. The research program has already contributed to good relationships.

B. Certain key leaders will be invited to begin to discuss the vision and support base.

V. Organization and launching of an executive committee

A. The Committee is chosen at or after the first DAWN Church leadership gathering.

1. This is very delicate; a bad choice can destroy everything.

2. Choose members who will truly be representative.

3. Avoid those who are after titles and self-promotion.

4. Pray and fast before choosing.

B. The DAWN Congress is organized by the chosen executive committee..

1. This is an event which is political in nature, to launch the executive committee.

2. Sub-committees are formed, with a member of the executive committee at the head of each.

· Program and speakers	· Publication and distribution of report
· Participants and invitations	· Publicity
· Finances	· Decorations and conference room
· Places and arrangements	· Others

VI. DAWN Congress: It lasts 4-5 days.

A. Goals are set: churches to plant, converts to win, % of population to reach

B. Participants agree on saturation Church planting (1 Church per 1000 people)

C. Denomination groups meet at the end of the congress to set objectives for the new churches and for their national goals, everything based on faith.

D. The Participants are committed to return to their denominations to ask for collaboration to reach these goals and the necessary organization to do it.

VII. Follow-up Program

A. Regional and local seminars are held.

B. A information journal is published, reporting on progress, preserving the vision.

C. Annual Research determines and shows progress on the denominational and national levels.

D. Toward the end of the plan, there is a second congress to evaluate, suggest changes, challenge leaders, etc. A probing analyst is necessary for this work.

E. The cycle is repeated.

Practical Issues

I. Workers

A. Three levels of Churches

1. Local: This is where the battle is won or lost.

a) It is the local church which makes disciples.

b) God’s people must prepare themselves to reach lost people E-0 to E-3.

c) It is the local church which spreads the vision to the ends of the earth.

2. Denominational

a) Its role is to unite and mobilize groups of churches to multiply.

b) It provides necessary administrative infrastructure.

3. National

a) Its role is to unite the denominations.

b) It needs special para-Church organizations without denominational affiliation.

c) It needs the respect of all the denominations.

d) It needs the personnel and the finances to rally the churches behind the movement.

B. Para-Church Groups

1. They must have a DAWN vision.

2. They must decide to bring that vision to the nation.

3. They must be capable of providing the director, advisors, teachers, committee members, etc.

4. They must be capable of examining all the aspects of DAWN in detail.

C. Missions

1. Finances: Should the mission give financial help?

a) For: Respond to needs, help the Church grow, help to train pastors, help to evangelize ....

b) Against: Creates dependence, encourages centralization, creates misunderstandings ....

2. Partners: The Church and the mission must collaborate.

a) They must both see the dangers of financial aid.

b) They must work together in a spirit of humility, frankness, and mutual respect.

II. Finances

A. The Churches or the denominations pay for evangelism and Church planting.

B. The denominations, para-Church groups, and DAWN all contribute to the congress.

C. DAWN pays for the research.

III. Success Factors

A. Have a Great vision which drives you. Proverbs 29:18

B. Develop, maintain, and use a solid data base Proverbs 18:13

C. Set realistic, challenging, and measurable goals; they are a concrete measure of faith. Hebrews 11:15

D. Make sure the participants own the vision and the goals.

E. Give the movement a name: Evangelism-in-depth, Christ for all, all for Christ ....

F. Develop a functional framework for the movement.

1. Distribute the tasks among the team members,

2. Supervise the entire program, the committees, the prayer programs, the recording of statistics, and the training.

G. Continue to motivate, mobilize, and inform everyone.

1. Publish the news regularly: results, requests, inspiring articles

H. Train members for the work of the ministry.

I. Have a solid financial policy.

1. Keep careful accounts.

2. Set priorities wisely.

3. Spend money wisely.

J. Develop an effective fund-raising program.

K. Send missionaries.

L. Evaluate continually.

M. Make new plans based on the old ones, improving them where necessary.

N. Be careful with building construction plans.

1. The Great Commission is silent on building construction.

2. Construction can compete with the Great Commission for funds and time.

3. Instead of using most resources for eternal souls, we invest more in temporary blocks.

4. Make a list of priorities.

a) Winning souls and making disciples can lead to more disciples.

b) Construct only while in the process of making disciples.

c) Always spend more to save souls than for constructing a building.

Components

I. Administration and Organization

A national leader and a national committee commit themselves to the task of mobilizing the whole body of Christ in a long-term strategy which repeats itself t make disciples of all nations. The key man and the executive committee pray as John Knox, “Give me Scotland (my country), or I die.”

II. basic objective

A strategy is put together which will win the whole nation and fill the country with evangelical churches so that there is one which is culturally and geographically accessible for each person of any social class and nation, including unreached people groups.

III. specific goal

The delegates of the national congress are committed to planting a certain number of churches before a specific date. This goal can be suggested by the national committee and based on the research done, or it can be the sum total of the set goals of all the denominations and other participating groups.

IV. local goal

Each evangelical denomination and group sets its own goal for the number of churches to be planted before a certain date, and plans are formulated to reach that goal. Para-Church groups which do not plant churches adapt their ministries to help denominations plant churches.

V. Adequate research

A. The number of evangelical denominations in the country

B. The number of local churches, members, and average attendance of each denomination.

C. The annual growth rate of each denomination

D. The methods used by the participating groups which stimulate the best growth.

E. The proportion of churches to the national and ethnic populations

F. The contextual factors of history, economy, religion, culture, politics, natural disasters, and other social forces which indicate the receptivity of the population, methodologies, and themes which could bring about the best possible response to the Gospel.

VI. National Congress

The key leaders from all denominations and other para-Church organizations meet to consider the task of making disciples of their whole nation and the analysis of data furnished.

VII. national committee

A. It does continual research based on the data furnished.

B. It publishes the reports on Church Growth and the challenges of each denominational program.

C. It holds seminars and consultations with leaders and pastors of the different denominations in the region.

D. It plans for the next national congress which will evaluate past progress and establish future goals and plans.

VIII. Prayer Movements

A. Effective Prayer is essential at all levels: National, regional, denominational, and local.

Summary

I. DAWN is a movement in obedience to the great commission to make disciples of all nations.

A. It encourages saturation Church Planting in your own country

B. It encourages saturation Church Planting throughout the world

C. It encourages collaboration between Christian organizations, missions, and churches to fulfill the mission.

II. DAWN seeks to channel All Church resources to meet this goal.

A. All members of local churches give themselves to the establishment of cells near churches or places where they are lacking.

B. All the financial and material means are used to fulfill the great commission in one’s own country unto the ends of the earth.

III. Dawn is a challenge to the Church.

A. It promotes training of key leaders within the body of the church.

B. It promotes mobilization of the whole body of Christ to do saturation church planting within every country of the world.

IV. DaWN seeks collaboration in the task.

A. Each member of the body of Christ helps others according to geo-political realities.

B. Evangelization of unreached peoples is done by nationals.

C. When a person makes disciples of his fellow citizens, there is a recognition of the global task.

V. DAWN seeks a John Knox-type person with a passion to win his nation for Christ.

VI. DAWN produces positive results.

A. At the end of 1991, 56 countries had DAWN movements and 66 leaders were developing DAWN projects.

B. In 1994, 80 countries had begun DAWN movements.

VII. DAWN has some problems.

A. Execution

1. DAWN began in the Philippines with well-trained nationals and missionaries who were very motivated. They developed action plans and experienced excellent results.

2. DAWN participants tend to think that each Church leader knows how to do a DAWN project, but that is not always true: You can organize a big gathering of Church leaders who support the goal to preach the Gospel in each city, village, neighborhood, and house without their doing anything once they return to their own countries. Jos, Nigeria is an example.

3. DAWN provides guidelines for organization of a movement of evangelism, but it depends on the nationals to supply the content which defines their movement. Inexperienced Church leaders are often reluctant to assume this big responsibility.

B. Staffing and finances

1. DAWN needs continual encouragement, a staff, offices, equipment, and literature

2. All these necessary resources require a budget difficult to maintain in most of the 211 countries of the world.

C. Cultural understanding and a good relationship with Church leaders

1. DAWN needs to understand the culture in which it is working.

2. A good relationship with Church leaders needs to be cultivated since they have the authority to allow or refuse access to their congregations.

Description

I. History

A. Dr. Thomas Wang

1. He made up part of the Lausanne Publications Committee

2. He wrote concerning the challenge to evangelize the world before AD 2000.

B. The global Consultation on World Evangelization before AD 2000

1. It took place at Singapore in 1989.

2. Over 300 denominational and para-Church representatives from 50 countries met for 4 days.

C. THE Book, Countdown to AD 2000, edited by Thomas Wang;

1. It is one of the results of the Global Consultation.

2. In the preface, Luis Bush, the international director of the AD 2000 Movement, listed 13 aspirations concerning the task of winning the lost to Christ, to be realized before the end of the millennium: time to reflect, to dream, to cooperate; to consult, to focus, to establish goals, to partnership, to commit oneself, to commit one’s denomination and country,

D. The Great Commission Manifesto

1. It was composed by the 314 participants of the World Consultation.

2. It makes reference to 200 plans to win the world.

a) They were not adopted as projects adopted by AD 2000.

b) These projects were welcomed as the free action of the Spirit of God in the world.

E. The Lausanne II Conference

1. It took place in Manila in July 1989 and often referred to the AD 2000 Movement.

2. This conference was different from the first for three main reasons:

a) 3^rd World leaders led in plenary sessions, workshops, and establishment of the program.

b) The large number of charismatics

c) The presence of 70 delegates from the former Soviet Union.

F. The AD 2000 leadership

1. The leaders are respected in their countries where Americans and Europeans sent missionaries for the past century.

2. They are no longer spectators, but initiators. They have the vision, they plan, and they direct.

3. Here are some names to remember: Thomas Wang, Luis Bush, Panya Baba, Stephen Tong, Chris Marantika, Philemon Choi, Gino Henriques, John Richards.

II. Vision

A. The vision is that each church, denomination, region, country, continent, respond in its own way to the goal to reach his region of the world before AD 2000.

B. The vision of what the church will become before AD 2000 was given by Dr. Bill O’brien of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Society.

1. On Christmas AD 2000, in large conference centers around the world 700,000 people will gather in front of a huge television screen.

2. Messages and reports will come in from different regions of the world. Christ will be exalted while kingdoms of this world are becoming kingdoms of God and His Son.

III. Objectives

A. Double the number of believers and churches from 1989 to 2000.

B. Plant a self-financing, self-governing, self-expanding church within every ethnic group in the world by the year 2000.

C. be a source of inspiration to the world Christian Church in meeting the objectives.

D. Be a means of communication so that those involved know what others are doing.

1. In 1989, there were more than 300 plans to evangelize the world, of which only 30 are still in operation. Among those involved in those thirty plans, not one knows what the others are doing.

2. “The world of the Great Commission could be described as 4000 Great Commission networks, 58 global networks and 9 mega-global networks.” ~ Luis Bush

E. The objective is not that all these plans be carried out, but that a common vision among Christian leaders allow the fulfillment of the great commission.

Methodology and Structure

I. Methodology

A. 14 branches (tracks) John 15:5

1. They are the ministries which prepare the action plans for their respective ministries.

2. Dr. Diafwila named 133 Zairians for 16branches.

B. 16 goals (according to Dr. Willys Braun)

1. Mobilize each congregation for more prayer.	9. Plant new churches.
2. Train believers to win more souls.	10. Train leaders for the new churches.
3. Send those trained to win souls.	11. Organize evangelistic campaigns.
4. Send evangelism teams to reach the lost	12. Organize revival campaigns.
5. Teach new converts biblical truths.	13. Have a youth ministry.
6. Offer fellowship to new converts.	14. Have a women’s ministry.
7. Train leaders for home Bible studies.	15. Have a men’s ministry.
8. Begin home Bible studies.	16. Distribute Christian literature.

C. Six branches for the local church Corresponding goals

1. Prayer	1
2. Rural Church Planting	4, 9, 10
3. Local Church	2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 16
4. Women / Men	14, 15
5. Youth	13
6. Cities / Villages	11, 12

D. Action plans

1. These plans are sent to each local church; not all the branches concern the local church.

2. The national committee plans and chooses the activity for each month.

II. Structure

A. International headquarters

Rev. Luis Bush, Director / AD 2000 and Beyond / 2860 S. Circle Dr. / Suite 2112 / Colorado Springs, CO 80906, USA.

B. Regional coordinators

1. 22 men from Asia, Africa, the Islands, Europe, and the Middle East.

2. They name the directors of the branches in 211 countries.

C. Experts for the International tracks

1. 30 men divided into two groups, 14 presidents and 16 coordinators.

2. The prayer branch lists two men: Peter Wagner and Kim Joon-Gon.

3. They prepared pages 24-25 in the manual and distribute “News on the Prayer Branch.”

D. leaders for the national tracts

· Each leader meets regularly with his members to choose the action plans to be implemented.

E. Work Team in the capital

· Distributes action plans to each local church.

F. Office of production and distribution

· Prints & distributes literature to denominational headquarters of each district, for local churches.

G. Denominational Team

1. It gives direction, teaches, and encourages the pastors about the contents of AD 2000.

2. It contacts the district leaders to report the results of their respective areas.

H. Congregational Committee

1. A church committee of 5 people to explain the action plan to each congregation.

2. It requests prayer for each action plan and reports the blessings of previous plans.

3. It recruits people to provide leadership for the local program.

4. It carries out the action plans.

5. It reports the results of each action plan to the national and denominational teams.

The Zairian Model and Conclusion

I. AD 2000 in Zaire: All for Christ

A. 1990 - A national Conference on AD 2000

B. 1993 - Literature distribution

1. Four sermons on repentance

2. “The School of Evangelism” - a 32-page booklet

a) After the four sermons on repentance, the laity are trained for evangelism.

b) The preferred day of the week for going out is chosen by the members involved.

c) The pastor gives 12 lessons on witnessing and evangelism to the laity.

d) The manual is a translation and adaptation of the New Life for All Witnessing Manual used in the francophone part of Cameroon.

3. It was distributed to 22,000 churches in six languages including all eleven states of the country.

C. 1994 - Literature Distribution

1. A 12-month calendar of action plans

2. Four sermons on repentance

3. “The School of Evangelism”

4. It was distributed to 30,000 churches in six languages including all eleven states of the country.

D. 1995- Literature Distribution

1. Letter of introduction to the ministry

2. Calendar and explanations

3. Sermons and Bible studies corresponding to the action plans

E. Hurdles to overcome

1. Literature distribution in a country with a poor infrastructure

2. Comprehension of the literature once received by the churches

3. Use of the literature when proper orientation is not given.

4. Change of mentality and mobilization of each church in the country

II. Conclusion

A. Statistics show we must respond.

1. There remain 1,300 million people who need to hear the Gospel for the first time.

2. There are 6,000 peoples without a church.

3. Between 15% - 25% of the world’s population is closed to the Gospel, representing 800 to 1,300 million souls.

4. There are almost 100 cities of more than 1 million inhabitants without a church.

5. There are 13 countries closed to the entry and open proclamation of the Gospel, thus without a viable indigenous church: Comoros Islands, Somalia, Afghanistan, Bhutan, North Korea, Maldavian Islands, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen.

B. Lost souls show we must respond.

1. Jesus died for the unreached also, and He gave us the Great Commission. Matthew 28:19-20

2. Each believer has the responsibility to take part in the remaining work.

a) Interceding

b) Responding to God’s voice calling some to go to the unreached

c) Giving material support to those who go to the mission field.

Comparaisons

Movement	E / P	NLFA	CFA	COWM	DAWN	AD 2000
Founder	Kenneth Strachan	Gerald Swank	Shaumba / Willys Braun	Eustaquio Ramientos	Jim Montgomery	Thomas Wang
Collaborators	Dayton Roberts	Yakuku Yako	Makanzu, Mengi, Marini,	Jim Montgomery		Luis Bush Panya Baba Steph. Tong
Origin	Nicaragua	Nigeria	Zaïre	Philippines	Philippines	Unknown
Participating Countries	Costa Rica Guatelmala Honduras Venezuela Bolivia Dom. Rep. Peru Colombia	Niger Burkina Faso Mali Sierra Leone Cameroon Côte d’Ivoire	Ghana Cameroon Burundi R.C.A. Gabon Zimbabwe S. Africa Egypt Madagascar Liberia	unknown	80 countries	211 countries
Beginning	1960	1963	1966	1970	1975	1989
Methods	Prayer Campaigns Evangelists Literature	Prayer Evangelistic Teams Personal Evangelism Literature	Prayer Campaigns Personal Evangelism Literature	Prayer Crusades Bible studies Sports Construction Literature	Prayer Saturation Church Planting Evangelistic Bible studies	Prayer National plan depends on the Church leadership
Uniqueness	Mobilization of laity Crusades Prayer cells Leadership training Outside experts	Manual 5 pts of message Evangelistic teams Formula: M X T = E	2 yr calendar 24 Action Plans Organization ECZ	Bible studies Sports teams Construction teams Mobilization teams Journals	Country targeted Unreached Saturation Church Planting DAWN Congress	Goal: Double Churches & members Reach whole world by AD 2000 10/40 Window Third World Leadership
Strengths	9 years fruit 1 yr calendar 8000 leaders 140,000 trained laity 25,000 prayer cells 100,000 converts	Growth: 1 yr calendar 918 - 1,116 churches 21,000 - 42,000 members Prayer Witness Unity of body	Protestant Church growth: 36% National Congress Creation of ECZ and National Department Evangelism	10,697 Bible Studies Indigenous movement Systematic evangelism Temporary infrastructure	Growth Rate doubled from 5% to 10% 18,000 churches planted in 19 years Goals in 80 countries 1.3 million churches planted	Mobilization of 211 countries Goals for evangelizing world by AD 2000. Unreached listed and targeted Operation Timothy Joshua Project
Weaknesses	Superficial conversions Weak discipleship Church too busy Event-oriented	Lack of leadership Superficial conversions Weak discipleship Partial mobilization	Routine after first years Non-mobilizaion of most churches Weak committment	Intense pressure Large scope of project One major project One denom.	Poor execution Lack of staff and finances Lack of Cultural adaptation.	Lack of total mobilization Lack of orientation Problem of literature distribution

Summary 1

I. This is an age of Several congresses on evangelism.

Þ Berlin 1966	Þ Kuala Lumpur
Þ Ibadan, Nigeria 1968	Þ Surabaja
Þ Singapore 1968	Þ Overseas Crusades
Þ Minneapolis 1969	Þ Brazil
Þ Bogota, Colombia 1969	Þ Colombia
Þ The Asian Evangelists' Commission	Þ Mexico
Þ Singapore	Þ Taiwan
Þ Saigon	Þ Philippines
Þ Colombo

II. This is an age of great campaigns.

A. Extensive campaigns by the Southern Baptists

B. New Life for You Japan 1963

C. Brazil 1965

D. The Good News campaigns of the Assemblies of God

E. Goal to reach every major city of the world

F. Concentration on the larger population centers

G. The nationwide campaigns of South Korea 1965

III. The current national, interdenominational & united movements are making a tremendous and wholesome impact upon many countries.

A. Evangelism-in-Depth

B. New Life for All

C. Christ for All

D. Christ the Only Way Movement

IV. Innovative improvements of the current movements are necessary.

A. Their limited impact on Church growth

B. Failure of the churches to do follow-up

C. Failure of churches to count beyond conversion A whole concept of evangelism needed

1. Planning

2. Preaching

3. Follow-up

V. Evangelism is only part of the larger national movement.

A. Prayer

B. Study

C. Witness

D. Evangelism

E. Discipleship

F. Church planting

G. Church growth

H. Revival Reformation

Summary 2

VI. churches are insufficiently equipped for the harvest.

A. A more radical approach than those currently attempted is needed

1. A return to the New Testament in patterns of evangelism

2. The incorporation of additional Church Growth principles

3. Fuller cultural, sociological and psychological adaptations

4. Relevancy of message to the hearers

5. Total mobilization of the believers

6. Cultural adaptation of the agent and his message

7. Wholesome relationships

8. Relationship of ministry to traditional establishment

9. Spiritual functionalism: allowing the Holy Spirit to work

10. Saturation evangelism

B. "The discipling is to continue until "the nation" has been reached with the Gospel.

1. Our Lord does not limit the missionary command and activity to the establishing of a "beachhead" church in the nations.

2. The process must continue until the nation has been saturated with the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

I. Course description: Movements for Church Growth

II. Bibliography

III. Course Outline

I. History: It’s the Grandfather of all movements for church growth.

II. Strategy: five basic considerations were presented.

A. The strategy is national rather than continental in scope.

B. The key to total evangelization lies not with the foreign organizations, nor with the national ministers, but with the sum total of Christian believers.

C. Individual witness needs to be carried out in everyday life and in special efforts to mobilize the all area Christians.

D. It is necessary to bring together the different Church bodies in a united witness.

E. The various evangelistic activities by the diverse groups are to be related to one overall plan that aims at the total and effective evangelization of the territory selected.

III. Structure

A. A national committee on evangelism, made up of denominational leaders to plan a one-year program of evangelism

B. A national office of evangelism with a team of "experts"

C. Preparatory conferences for Christian leaders on national, provincial, and regional levels

D. A three-month study course in witnessing in each church

E. Thousands of prayer cells begun

F. "Every home" visitation program

G. Mass evangelism campaigns on local, provincial, and national levels with a parade as a distinctive feature

IV. Calendar

A. January

B. February

C. March

D. April

E. May

F. June

G. July

H. August

I. September

J. October

K. November

L. December

I. Philosophy: We can learn much from movements around us ~ Strachan

II. Up-ward approach

A. Up - Local to national campaigns

B. Down - National to local campaigns

III. Attitudes

A. Abundant reaping requires abundant sowing.

B. Christians can and must work together in evangelism.

C. When Christians pool evangelism resources, God multiplies.

D. A dedicated minority can make an impact on an entire nation.

E. Evangelism is the only real platform of our unity in Christ.

IV. General Principles

A. Mobilization of every Christian in witness.

B. Mobilization within the framework of the church.

C. Mobilization by local leadership.

D. Mobilization for global objectives.

V. Global Objectives

A. There were two general objectives:

1. Total mobilization of the Christian community.

2. Total evangelization of a given area.

B. There were four particular objectives:

1. The awakening of the dormant potential within each local body

2. The development of a strong national leadership.

3. The development of a strong national church.

4. The evangelization of each stratum and facet of national life

VI. Components

A. It was a revivalist program awakening numerous churches.

B. It was a sowing program with much harvest after the first year.

C. It was a training program for the churches and believers.

D. It was a year-long prayer program.

E. It was a radical, intensive, biblical, discipleship program.

F. It was a focusing, fervent, all-out evangelistic program.

G. It was a four-fold technical program

1. Organization

2. Cooperation

3. Time schedule

I. From a flip chart

A. it was a conscientious attempt to mobilize all Christians in a nation or area

B. It was a conscientious attempt to evangelize all non-Christians in that area

C. It was a conscientious attempt to reach them in all of their personal and social structures and relationships

D. It was a conscientious attempt to reach them with the whole Gospel of Christ, announcing preeminently its simple kerygma (Christ died for our sins, was buried, rose, and is coming again)

E. It was a conscientious attempt to proclaim the Gospel in the context of its ethical implications and to express its social concern for the total welfare of those from whom response is sought

II. From Dr. R. Kenneth Strachan

A. It was a formal effort to relate in a long-range program the best elements of personal witness and mass evangelism

B. It was the continuous testimony of the local church linked with the total witness of the entire body of Christ

C. It was a challenge to all Christian bodies to plan and carry out their respective evangelistic programs in a simultaneous, coordinated effort

D. It was a personal summons to many individuals to take the Lord's command seriously and to adventure with other Christians in obedient involvement and witness in the world

E. It was a return to apostolic patterns of evangelism rather than a new strategy

III. Lores

A. It was a methodical structure in which there is a combination of several methods