HANDOUTS

FOR PASTOR JOHNS

Name
3 years going on our fourth
Started with 28 people now about 300 members.
90 of people were born again and baptized at NextGen.
More than 70 volunteers.
2 worship service, 8am & 10am.
Cinema One.

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DISCLAIMER.
A. I do not claim to be an expert, simply a learner just like you.
Tenacity, fortitude
Christian swarz healthy churches grow
B. What I have is experience and a strong sense of where, I believe, God is leading us for
the future.
C. I am tasked to concentrate on ways to improve the worship service.

3 THINGS TO DEFINE

1. DEFINE YOUR PURPOSE

(Answers the question: Why do you exist?)
You need to define well what is your purpose as a church.
2 things can and will happen.
you concentrate on a wrong purpose and miss out on the right ones.
You concentrate on a right purpose but neglect the others.
Its ok to have a School. Military ministry. Pastoral Fellowships.
They are ok. But that is not your life as church.

Worship. Fellowship. Discipleship. Ministry. Mission.
Worship God. Win Souls. Make Disciples.

2. DEFINE YOUR STRATEGY

 (Answers the question: How will you fulfill your purpose?)
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House church
Purpose Driven
Cell Group Ralph Neighbor, Yongi Cho
G12

Even Jesus had a strategy:

Matthew 15:24
He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel."
NIV

3. DEFINE YOUR CORE VALUES

(Answers the question: How would you like to be remembered?)

Core values are traits or qualities that represent an individual's or organization's

highest priorities, deeply held beliefs, and core, fundamental driving forces.
CORE VALUES:
a. Govern personal relationships
b. Defines decision process
c. Help explain why we do things the way we do things
d. Clarifies who we are
e. Articulate what we stand for
f. Requires no external justification

g. Unbendable, uncompromising, steadfast

Your Core Values will define the future culture of your church.
If will not define what church culture you want, a year from now you will have a
culture, whether you like it or not, and chances are you will not like what you will
have.

THE 10 SYSTEMS OF THE CHURCH

1. Evangelism/Promotion System
2. Assimilation System
3. Discipleship System
4. Worship Service System
5. Preaching System
6. Finance System
 7. Small Group System
8. Member Care System
9. Church Planting System
10. Strategic Plan System

WORSHIP SERVICE SYSTEM

PRE-WORSHIP SERVICE ACTIVITIES.

KEY: Advance Planning.

Three Months in Advance.

1. Complete Message Series.
a. Title of Series.
b. Title of every sermon in the series.
c. Scripture text of every sermon.
d. Short description of each sermon.

Example :
TIME TO BUILD MESSAGE SERIES

Some suggestions on creating your own message series.

a. Know your people and what they need.
b. Go for 6 week message series.
c. Include in every message :
a. Theme for the year
b. One of your core values
c. Importance of Small groups
d. Upcoming activities such as :
Membership class,
Baptism,
Discipleship class,
Retreats,etc.

Two Months in Advance.

1. Promotion Team starts working on:
a. Poster
b. Flyer
c. Powerpoint Promotion
2. Praise & Worship Team starts working on:
a. New Songs that enhances the new Message Series.
b. Rehash of old songs that enhances the new Message Series.

3. Creative Team
a. Starts looking for video clips, video loops, that enhances the new Message Series.

4. Testimony Team
a. Starts looking for people whose testimony can help strengthen the message.

One Month in Advance.

Finalize all materials, have them approved and edited, and implement them.

Weeks in Advance

Pastor discuss all these with pastoral staff for slight adjustments or corrections ready for
implementation.

ACTUAL WORSHIP SERVICE.

3 KEY PLAYERS OF AN EXCELLENT WORSHIP SERVICE FLOW

SETUP/TAKEDOWN TEAM LEADER

1. Comes early with his team to setup the entire worship hall.
2. Stays late to take down entire worship hall.

FOYER DIRECTOR
1. Ensures the following teams have arrived and have setup their tables.
a. NewComers Center Team
i. 1st Time Give-away.
1. Welcome letter from the Pastor.
2. New Testament Bible.
3. CD of new songs.
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ii. 2 Time Give-away.
b. Refreshment Team
c. Attendance Team
d. Information Table Team
 i. Inquiries on seminars and trainings.

WORSHIP SERVICE DIRECTOR

1. Ensures the following teams are well acquainted with the flow of the worship
service.
a. Ushers Team
b. Powerpoint Team
c. Praise & Worship Team
d. Lights and Sounds Team
e. Video & Photo Team
f. Secuirty Team
g. Testimony or Special Number
2. Checks with the Pastor and Worship Leader for any changes or extra instructions for
the worship service.
3. Background music are played before the worship service. Play songs that you will
use in the future worship services to familiarize the people with the new song.
4. Encourages all leaders to go out of their way to meet new people and make them
feel welcome.

SOME POINTERS

1. Always start on time. Always end on time.

a. Use a countdown video.
b. Use welcome video.
2. Start with a strong welcome with an upbeat background.

Demo.

3. Play background music before the worship service. Play new songs that you plan to
use in the future. The louder the background music the more animated people are
and vice-versa.
4. Use Easy Worship for PowerPoint.
5. Limit your Praise & Worship to no more than 30 minutes.
6. Avoid church words that new people dont understand. (efficacious vs effective.
Simple but not simplistic.
7. Remove dead time. Ask all participants to sit-up front with the Pastor.
8. Reserve the first two rows for vibrant and expressive worshipers.
9. Encourage a lot of touching.
a. Shakehands.
b. Hugs.
c. Side hugs.
d. High fives.

TITHES AND OFFERINGS

1. Ask only tithers to pray.
 2. Dont rush through the prayer for tithes. Use this sample spill:

Sample Spills:
Lets all stand and please take out your tithes and offerings envelope.
(Pause and give time for people to do so.)
Please hold your envelopes with both hands and let us pray: Father,
we hold in our hands our tithes and offering, a tenth of everything we
earned this whole week. This money represents our deep appreciation
for what youve done for us. You deserve the best and nothing but the
best . . .

3. Ask the ushers not to rush the collection plate. Give everyone sufficient time to be
able to give.
4. Pastors, make sure you are the first tither of the church. We cannot ask others to do
something we ourselves is not willing to do.

For preachers.
5. Smile a lot.
6. Dress smartly. Clothes pressed. Shoes shined. Smell good. Brush your teeth thrice.
7. Meet people before and after the service.
8. Memorize names.
9. Walk slowly and greet everyone.

10. Publicly appreciate people in the pulpit.

11. Tell stories of your people.
12. Always preach for commitment. Give an invitation always to make a decision.
13. Use message notes.

THE POST-WORSHIP SERVICE ACTIVITIES.

TUESDAYS
1. Office staff calls all new attenders for appreciation and follow-up.
2. Telephone follow-up includes:
a. A sincere thank you and appreciation for their coming over.
Can you spare me a few minutes? May I ask you a few questions to help us
improve our church? :
a. What did you notice first when you came to our church?
b. What did you like the most?
c. What can we improve?
d. Will you come back if you are invited again?
b. Invitation to come back again.

3. Treasurer sends the following to all FIRST-TIME GIVERS:

a. Thank you letter of their donation:
 i. Letter Includes:
1. Amount they gave
2. A short explanation on how the tithes and offerings are used.

4. Absent Follow-up
Office Staff calls all members and regular attenders who are absent. Inquires why
they were absent. Encourages them not to fail to attend regularly because this is
important for their spiritual growth and maturity.

5. Small Group Follow-Up

Office Staff calls all Small Group leaders and asks for the following:
a. Attendance of last meeting
b. Topic of last meeting
c. Promotes any important upcoming event or activity
d. Inquires if the NextGen office can be of assistance to them.

6. Appreciation Call/Text Follow-up

Office Staff calls all participants of last worship service eg: Bible Reader, Prayer
leader, etc. and extends appreciation of Pastor John for their invaluable support.

7. Team Leaders Appreciation telephone call from Pastor and expression of support for
what they are doing.
Pastor John calls all important team leaders and appreciates them for a job well done
and expresses support for their ministry.

WEDNESDAYS

8. Pastoral Staff Team, there about 6 at NextGen, fulltime/partime:

a. TALK EXTENSIVELY ON LAST WORSHIP SERVICE:
i. What did we do right?
ii. What can we improve?
iii. What must be remembered?
b. Talks about upcoming events and activities.
c. Talks about any concerns of members or attenders.
d. Talks about status of newcomers.

CONCLUSION:
A. Three power words of church growth:
a. Intentional
b. Aggressive
c. Consistent
B. It does not matter what church growth model you choose (provided they are biblical
models), what matters is you learn it by heart, apply it and stick to it. Do not vacillate
from one model to another because that is the surest way to fail.
CHALLENGE

Luke 10:1-3
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two
ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. 2 He told
them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the
harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
NIV