Local Impact Team
Local Impact Team
May 5, 2003

Local Impact Team

Catch the wave of living waters flowing!

 

GIT Team:

Purpose: To enable awareness and response to great commission opportunities nationally and internationally (i.e.-outside of Durham)

Key Skills:

Project Management

Communications

Strategic Vision

Focus: an eye on the world, our Judea, our Samaria, and the uttermost part of the earth

Communication: within to get financial commitment and opportunities awareness

Action: Send/Encourage people

Sample Projects:

Global Impact Conference

Missions Finances (Faith Commitment Offering)

Short Term Mission Trips

Missionary Communications

Tamajaq (Tamasheq) Village Model

Missionary Prayer Handbook

LIT Team:

Purpose: To provide strategic and tactical implementation of NCD quality value of needs based evangelism by enabling awareness and response to great commission opportunities in Durham.

Motto: bring your vision, heart, hope or dream and we’ll help you put feet on it.

Key Skills:

Project Management

Strategic Coaching

Strategic Planning

Goal Setting

Servant Leadership

Teaching

Focus: an eye on our field of labor, our Jerusalem

Communication: within to get time commitment; opportunities awareness; demographics; project planning tool

Action: Coach/Equip the people laboring in the harvest locally

Sample Projects:

1. Community Gardens (free food for local residents in church grounds gardens or in the backyards of our or other church members homes for their neighborhood)
2. Adopt a School
  -Participation as teachers/helpers at EK Powe
  -Tutoring at EK Powe
3. *Karate Club
4. Ministries Likely to MInister to Singles:
 -Theology on Tap
 -Coffeehouse
 -Movies on Ninth Street (with follow up coffee/discussion - and carried over into Sunday Sermons)

 -Roommate Mediation/Conflict Management
5. Unemployed Skills (financial counsel; resume and interview preparation; computer skills training; job search helps).
6. *Financial Counseling/Budgeting
7. Weight Loss Clinic
8. *GED Preparation Courses
9. ESL classes
10. Hotline: Prayer/Crisis counseling
11. Music in the Park
12. Disaster Relief
13. *Free Car Washes
14. Non-Medical In-Home Senior Care (living assistance services including hygiene assistance, meal preparation, light housekeeping, errands and shopping and companionship services.)
15. Series of specific Monthly Newsletters to provide crisis point support to specific groups (new mothers, newly weds, newly divorced, graduates going to school, graduates going to college, etc.

16. Traveling Theater in converted van/truck. Should have loudspeakers and music to attract and communicate effectively. Puppet show presentations for use in parks, neighborhoods (like ice cream trucks), and with permission, commercial areas. Could also be larger with drop down stage for concerts and Drama Theater.

17. Nut Sundae Sundays (invite a friend)]

18. Select run down homes in surrounding neighborhood to repair, paint, fix up.

19. One time servant evangelism outreaches: free car wash; light bulb giveaways; fire alarm battery replacements, etc.

20. Assimilation (relationships building) process and tools for visitors and new regular attenders.

21. Opening home for CEF ministry to local neighborhood children and/or leading one of these.

22. Home Group Block Parties/BBQ's

23. Jazz at Dayspring - welcome to returning Duke students as a high profile kick off for other ministry like coffeehouse/CD/theology on tap/movie nights.

LIT Structure/Members: (one from each home group? Home groups can become an important part of the needs-based evangelism qualitative goal)

Consider a study/play/work model for home groups:

·         week 1 bible study/prayer;

·         week 2 bible study/prayer;

·         week 3 barbecue/picnic/dinner/playtime;

·         week 4 ministry effort(s) (one home group might have multiple project teams)

Biblical Case for good works and putting what we learn into practical incarnation:

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.  James 1:22

Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it is in your power to act.  Prov 3:27

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.... all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.  Acts 9:36,39

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.   Ephesians 2:10

But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. 1 Timothy 2:10

Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.   1 Timothy 5:10

That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; 1 Timothy 6:18

That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
2 Timothy 3:17

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.   Titus 1:16

In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,   Titus 2:7

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.   Titus 2:14

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