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Free NextSteps Webinar on Missional Alignment by Gary Rohrmayer

Announcing the NextSteps Webinar Series! The NextSteps Series interprets the research from the Natural Church Development Paradigm by Christian Schwarz in a missional context.

The next event in the series is scheduled for Wednesday March 9th at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific.

Presented by CoachNet Global, Gary Rohrmayer is leading a free webinar series for pastors, church planters and leaders.  The goal of this session is to bring some theological and practical clarity to the issue of vision, values and systems alignment within the context of a missional paradigm.

Some practical questions:

• Does your vision breathe the mission of God?
• How easily measurable are your values?
• How well are your systems achieving missional outcomes?

The bottom line is:  How do you bring missional alignment to vision, values and systems?

In this 60 minute webinar--where you don’t have to travel or spend any money--Gary Rohrmayer will be joined by Jonathan Reitz of CoachNet.  You will:

• Discover what vision is and isn’t
• Learn how you can make you values measurable
• Gain a better understanding of how systems work in the local church

You can expect to learn:

• How to articulate you vision in light of the great commission
• How to measure the operational values that your church teaches
• How to bring alignment with your vision, values and systems

Learn more about the NextSteps for Leading a Missional Church

Register Here

Free Evangelism Webinar Today October 20th @ 12noon CST

Our first webinar in September was a great success!  Over 150 leaders from 10 countries signed up and participated in our discussion on the "Person of Peace" Principle found in Luke 10.

The next webinar will focus on "How to Equip Your People to Reach Their Friends."

One of the primary tasks of pastors is to equip the saints to do the work of the ministry.

I’ve coached enough pastors and done enough evangelism training seminars to know that one challenge that many of you face is equipping your people for evangelism.

• How do you lead your congregation in effective evangelism?
• How do you equip your members to be more confident in sharing their faith?
• How do you do evangelism training?
• How can we stimulate members to get excited about the GREAT COMMISSION?
• How can I create a culture of evangelism and equip my church members for it?
• How do you get others excited about the opportunity?

In this 60 minute EvangelismCoach.org webinar, Gary Rohrmayer will join Chris Walker, of EvangelismCoach.org, to talk about various different evangelism strategies.

Pastors will learn new ways of equipping their people to reach their friends.

• How to ignite outreach passion in your church
• How to identify places on the evangelistic journey
• How to incorporate evangelistic training throughout the life of the church

Free Webinar with Registration

Date: October 20th, 2010

Time: 12 noon, Central Standard Time

Register Today

Free Evangelism Webinar Today @ 12noon CST

Do you want to raise the evangelistic temperature of your church?

Gary Rohrmayer, in partnership with Chris Walker of www.evangelismcoach.org, will be conducting three 60 minutes webinars to help you as a pastor increase the passion for evangelism throughout your church.

• September 29 @ 12 noon CST - How pastors can increase the number of spiritual conversations in their life.
• October 20 @ 12 noon CST - How pastors can better equip their church to reach their sphere of influence.
• November 23 @ 12 noon CST - How pastors can sow seeds of awareness throughout their community.

I have coached many pastors in how to increase the number of spiritual conversations; with a few insights and some accountability they have seen dramatic results.

In this first webinar you can expect to learn:

• How to uncover a person of peace in your sphere of influence.
• How to become a better networker in your community and have fun doing it.
• How not to waste your time in fruitless conversations

Sign up Today!

Wednesday, September 29th @ 12 noon-CST

Registration is FREE but required

Free Church Planting Webinars by Gary Rohrmayer

In a desire to get critical training materials into the hands of church planters earlier in the process, I have provided in partnership with CoachNet.org a one hour, free, webinar through each stage of the FirstSteps Church Planting Process. Each webinar will bring some of the key missional principles found in the FirstSteps to Planting a Missional Church manual.

We will go through the Six Stages for Planting a Missional Church.

1. FirstSteps - part 1: Overview
2. FirstSteps - part 2: Relating with God and Others
3. FirstSteps - part 3: Networking and Gathering
4. FirstSteps - part 4: Building a Launch Team
5. FirstSteps - part 5: Designing Services and Ministries
6. FirstSteps - part 6: Preaching in a New Church
7. FirstSteps - part 7: Launching your Public Worship Service
8. FirstSteps - part 8: Establishing New Community of Faith

To keep informed on upcoming webinars 

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More information on The FirstSteps Network

Ignite 2010 - Starts in 2 days!

The largest church planting gathering in the history of ConvergeUSA (formerly TeAmerica) and Converge Worldwide (Baptist General Conference) starts March 24 in Phoenix, AZ.  Close to 350 people are coming representing almost 100 churches seeking God for their Antioch Moment (Acts 13:1-3).  It is a courageous call to multiplication and expansion of the kingdom through a five year church planting campaign called Ignite a Church.

All systems are in ready position...the energy is going to be explosive!

• All the hotel rooms are booked!
• The speakers have been prayed for by a small band of leaders who have been fasting for the last 30 days!
• The muscians are ready!
• The workshop leaders are ready!
• The volunteers are primed to served!
• The hearts of everyone must come prepared to receive a multiplication dream.

For more information go to www.convergeignite.org

Don't Be a Jerk! Read Spiritual Conversations!

The Spiritual Journey Guide has sold over 1.2 million and after years of requests I finally wrote a book on my view of evangelism and how to use The Spiritual Journey Guide.

Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustianing them Without Being a Jerk! is a quick read and a practical resource that will challenge and give you a fresh perspective for eternal conversations.

You will learn:

• Shifting face of evangelism
• Put confidence in God and not a method
• How to create thirst in your conversations
• How build and sustain relationships
• Jesus' tool for finding highly receptive people
• How lorship and rapport work in our conversations

"The great Apostle asked, "How are they going to hear without someone preaching?" The reality is that the eternal gospel goes forth to people from people. And, by experience, most people "hear" the gospel through a spiritual conversation not a sermon. This book empowers normal people to share the gospel through intentional conversations."

 

Darrin Patrick

Lead Pastor of the Journey Church, St. Louis, Mo

Vice President of the Acts 29 Network

 

More Information

What If? - Ignite 2010 - March 24-26 in Phoenix, AZ

ConvergeUSA is a network of organizations and churches that has seen over 500 churches planted in the last 20 years, thus making us one of the few fellowship of churches that has a positive growth rate.

• What if every church that was planted in the last 20 years gathered in one spot?
• What if every church that planted a church in the last 20 years were in the same room?
• What if all these leaders joined for worship, prayer and fasting?
• What if all these leaders gathered together to hear God's voice?
• What if all these leaders declared a dream...a multiplication dream?

It would be explosive! It would be historical!  It would be life changing!   So this is a call to every leader within Converge to gather March 24-26, 2010 in Phoenix, AZ for Ignite 2010 as we kick off our new five year multiplication campaign: Ignite a Church: Transform the World.

• Are you a pastor with a multi-site dream? This is for you!
• Are you a planter looking to launch a new church? This is for you!
• Are you a pastor looking to start your first daughter church? This is for you!
• Are you a leader looking to build a church planting network? This is for you!
• Are you a pastor seeking to become a Church Multiplication Center? This is for you!

Register Here

Scholarships are available through your regional leaders

Free Church Planting Webinar by Gary Rohrmayer

Mark Your Calendars!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 2 pm Central (3 pm Eastern/12 pm Pacific)

Over 400 people have signed up for these free Church Planting webinars and the response has been encouraging.

Join us for Part 5 of the FirstSteps webinar series with Gary Rohrmayer as he provides a deeper look at another critical step of planting a missional church: Designing Your Worship Service and Initial Ministries. We will be providing insights on:

• Eight Basic Elements of a Public Worship Service
• "Response Filter" Principle
• First Impressions
• Childrens Ministry Insights

Register Here

Learn More About the FirstSteps Network

FirstSteps for Planting a Missional Church