PRIORITIES
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Prayer: To assist and encourage church members to
develop and embrace an intimate, passionate walk with Jesus Christ
Goals for Prayer:
1.
Participate in
one prayer conference or retreat per year
2.
Encourage
churches to develop and strengthen prayer teams, partners, and mentors on a
monthly basis
3.
Encourage
quarterly prayer walks in all communities in Grady County
Action Plan:
1.
Promote
Georgia Baptist Convention Conferences dealing with prayer (i.e.,” Speechless”)
2.
Promote local prayer conference for the Association
3. Identify called
prayer leader(s) from each church
4. Association
Prayer Coordinator will personally meet with all pastors and the prayer leaders
from each church
5. Begin/continue
prayer walks:
Churches are assigned various schools in the county
Prayer walks before block parties and manna drop
Prayer walks for sheriff, police, fire dept., courthouse,
prison, and other govt. agencies
Prayer walk for Pregnancy Crisis
Center, Grady General
Prayer walk for a church each month
Support FCA’s See You at the Pole and National Day of Prayer
See: John Paul Hasick, Mrs. Anne Parks, and prayer leaders
from each church
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Mission/Evangelism: To assist and encourage churches to support and develop missions and to
lead the lost to Christ
Goals for Mission/Evangelism:
1.
Encourage 30% of
churches to become Acts. 1:8 churches by 2016
2.
Assist churches
to recognize and identify specific needs within their community by Dec. 2018
3.
Start one new
ministry, church work in the next 3 years
4.
Encourage each
church in Grady
County to increase baptisms by 10% over the next 3 years
Action Plan:
1.
John
Paul will share the Acts 1:8 church vision and ask churches to be committed
Encourage churches to communicate what they’re doing and
invite others to be involved (mission trips, community mission activities,
etc.)
Commit to pray for an unreached people group—including using
technology to reach others (Facebook, etc.)
2.
Use
Georgia Baptist demographics to identify these groups
Multi-cultural ethnicity research
Complete survey at block party
3.
Identify
places that have a need a new work and
contact Georgia Baptist Convention New Church Development Ministry for future
steps
4.
Challenge
churches to set a goal for baptisms over the next 3 years
Promote, encourage, and commit to a Soul Winning Commitment
Day; use associational ordered packets
to distribute to churches
See: New Work Team, Evangelism Director, and Sunday School
Director
