I am just finishing my preparations for the Church Planting Bootcamp class that is being held on the Trinity Western University campus in Langley, BC, Canada beginning tomorrow and running through Friday for 8 hours each day.
The Bootcamp is a relatively new training tool for church planters, sponsoring churches and denominational leaders. The goal of the instruction and Bootcamp experience is to train church planters and candidates in the essential steps that a new church progresses through as it begins, develops, launches and grows into maturity. Experienced church planters take the students through a number of different modules of instruction. The nineteen students who will be there will have read three key church planting books. I will be there as the Professor of Record to grade papers of students who take the class for credit.
While I enjoy the academic interaction, I am most looking forward to coaching the students as they interact in small group discussions and in-class application assignments. This means I will be asking them questions rather than providing answers. My goal in coaching is to help them develop the church that God has already planted in their heart. I go as a Barnabas, an encourager and helper who, like the character in the New Testament, helped Paul become the great Apostle, New Testament author and church planter.
What a great privilege it is to be a helper in the ministry of multiplying new churches that will reach new people who will become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
You can read more about the Church Planting Boot camp experience at http://www.efcastartchurches.org/boot-camp/
The Bootcamp is a relatively new training tool for church planters, sponsoring churches and denominational leaders. The goal of the instruction and Bootcamp experience is to train church planters and candidates in the essential steps that a new church progresses through as it begins, develops, launches and grows into maturity. Experienced church planters take the students through a number of different modules of instruction. The nineteen students who will be there will have read three key church planting books. I will be there as the Professor of Record to grade papers of students who take the class for credit.
While I enjoy the academic interaction, I am most looking forward to coaching the students as they interact in small group discussions and in-class application assignments. This means I will be asking them questions rather than providing answers. My goal in coaching is to help them develop the church that God has already planted in their heart. I go as a Barnabas, an encourager and helper who, like the character in the New Testament, helped Paul become the great Apostle, New Testament author and church planter.
What a great privilege it is to be a helper in the ministry of multiplying new churches that will reach new people who will become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
You can read more about the Church Planting Boot camp experience at http://www.efcastartchurches.org/boot-camp/
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