The Outreach Training Team:
Steve Lacy; Chad McCallum; Paul Mathewson; Dave Moore

The Four Laws of Effective Outreach are the foundation for building a growing church. They enable your church to orient toward the community God wants you to reach and to help you maintain an outreach focus. This one-day learning experience is packed with interactive discussion, idea sharing and gives you and your team the starting point for an effective outreach plan in your own church. For more detailed information on the content, go to Outreach, Inc.

Alan Nelson

Leading Ideas

Based on the research of twenty organizational transition books and over thirty case studies of church transitions, a practical and thorough plan has been developed to help pastors and leadership teams effectively transition their congregations. Author Alan Nelson, Ed.D., will explain the four key factors impacting church change. Through a series of practical hands on tools, you can leave with a transition plan that will help you implement an improvement plan. This is especially helpful for churches desiring to move toward an outreach focus. (Based on the book of the same title, 2000, Word) www.LeadingIdeas.org

Tom Clegg

This high-impact, day-long evangelism equipping event has been enjoyed by thousands of participants. The seminar utilizes approximately 70% presentation and 30% interaction, high-tech digital video, resource table, humor, Biblical teaching, practical equipping and a hard-hitting approach to evangelism that debunks conventional thinking.

Who Should Attend?

• Christians who want to increase their effectiveness in reaching out.
• Pastors and church staff seeking ideas for evangelistic breakthroughs.
• Concerned lay leaders who want an outstanding training tool for building bridges to their community.

Dr. Bobby Brewer

The implications of postmodernism is having a drastic impact upon the North American church to the degree that the United States is now considered the third largest mission field and in a post-Christian state. Most church workers have noticed the change but are perplexed about how to address it. Reaching the emerging culture is much deeper than simply dressing casual and tweaking worship styles.

This session will be appealing to those who desire an inside look at what's happening within evangelical Christianity in North America and the innovation behind some of the leaders who are intentionally ministering within the emerging generation. Likewise, it provides the participant with a variety of methodologies that will be more suitable for a more diverse audience.

Rev. Jeremy Squires

In this day long workshop Rev. Jeremy Squires will explore the essential elements that every congregation needs to become more welcoming and provide hospitality to their congregation and community.

Through PowerPoint presentation, handouts, actual stories, and roundtable discussion participants will walk away with practical key components and ideas that they can implement in their church whether it is 50 or 5,000 in attendance. This intensive is a great opportunity to explore deeper ideas and systems that Rev. Squires has presented in his previous workshops at the National Outreach Convention and in the column that he is currently writing for Outreach magazine.

Ten Ways To Improve Your Preaching

"People are from Earth, Preachers are from Seminary"

Brian Mavis,

General Manager, SermonCentral

Outreach, Inc.

In a recent study of highly effective evangelistic churches, preaching was the #1 method used in reaching the lost. "Among all the possible factors that led a church to evangelistic growth, preaching was clearly the most important element." In this one-day workshop, you will learn how to come up with biblical, big ideas, create sermon systems that mobilize people. Write sermons that people won't forget and find topics the unchurched want to hear.

In June 2001, Ken and Pat
co-founded United Front Ministries in Richmond, VA, to house this expanding ministry of training and coaching in Church Development and ReDevelopment. United Front has ministered to hundreds of church leaders and currently trains and coaches well over 100 church teams in the Project 6:15 (Nehemiah 6:15) and Project 2:47 (Acts 2:47).

Ken Priddy & Pat Bragg

United Front Ministries

“Attendance is sagging. We haven’t seen a visitor in a while. Giving is down, making it harder and harder to keep ministries going. We’re short on people who are willing to serve and people who are willing to lead. It seems we keep going back to same group of people year after year trying to get more service and more leadership out of them, when they’re already out of gas. We know what God can do, but we struggle as to when and how He will do something here in our church. We’re losing hope.”

Could this, or something like it, be said of your church? If so, you need to know that you are not alone. According to leading church analysts such as Lyle Schaller, George Barna and Mike Regele, you are not alone in that over 80% of American Protestant churches are in plateau and decline. There is an epidemic of sagging attendance, diminishing giving, and service and leadership shortages in the American church. The influence of the American church on American culture is fading, marginalized more and more with each passing year.

You are also not alone in that there is a ministry that specializes in working with churches such as yours that will redevelop your ministry, strengthen your church, and position your church to reach lost people in your community. United Front Ministries is here to help. United Front can show you why your church is where it is on the church lifecycle, can show you what needs to be done to reverse negative trends, and can show you how to make it happen.

There is a solution, The TurnOut Solution. Using this proven approach, spiritual renewal combines with strategic initiative to move your church from plateau or decline to health and growth. Hundreds of churches are already benefiting from United Front’s church redevelopment ministry. Now you can find out more.