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We recently held a webinar about how to be intentional at Christmas with our Disciplemaking strategy.
Brad, thank you for sharing how you used your Christmas Makers Market to “Connect” with your neighbourhood, and how you thought about the design of the market – with activities for kids and spaces to chat to parents to find out who might be interested in Playgroups and other families’ ministries to grow your church. We are very aware that we need to value and nurture families to keep a church healthy. I am so encouraged that over the last year you have seen fruit from the market and the other training you have done – I was at one of your family services this year with a puppet show that had over 50 children attend and you even have waiting lists for your playgroups!
Liz, I loved your sharing about how you trained and mobilised Christians in your neighbourhood to reach out to others – Christmas is such a gift as everyone one knows about the secular side of the holiday and is a great opportunity to connect and gently share Jesus’ story. You shared some simple ways to reach out to friends and neighbours that we all can do. I know how children help us connect with others in our community and how you did this and trained others to do it intentionally. Who doesn’t love to receive a Christmas Cookie made by children?
If you would like to listen to the webinar again, missed it or have people that you would like to share it with the recording can be found on:
Passcode: 1C40g!rm
We are excited to launch our TheFour.au webApp.
The Four is a simple way to combine online outreach with personal witnessing.
TheFour.au uses 1-2 minute videos to present the gospel in four points. Three versions of the presentation broaden its appeal.
Signing up for a client code allows you to promote the site through social media and digital channels to your local community and follow up those who respond.
In addition, the TheFour.au is available as a wristband to empower personal witnessing.
There are also branding resources available to include TheFour symbols on posters, flyers, t-shirts, etc.
TheFour has proven to be an effective way of engaging a local community and surfacing spiritual interest.
Combining a social media campaign with mobilised and equipped local Christians creates even greater momentum and results.
Learn how to use TheFour.au by accessing our Free TheFour course
We are excited to share the new format of MyFriends - all our materials are now online.
You can run and attend a MyFriends training from any device anywhere - at your church, sitting under a tree on a sunny day or even in your local cafe .... all the participant materials and videos are available through your Movementbuilders.org.au training hub.
What are you waiting for?
Join a virtual MyFriends training or run one for your church or ministry - to find out more information go to MyFriends - Power to Change.
Power to Change’s training hub is a collection of resources, tools, and training and coaching pathways to help create disciple-making movements in your church and community.
After decades of developing, using and refining these resources – Power to Change is launching a training hub – your starting point for disciple-making and building disciple-making movements in your church and community to see Kingdom transformation in our world. We provide training and coaching pathways and all the tools and resources you’ll need to help people live, lead, and multiply like Jesus.
LAUNCHING OCTOBER 2022
Find out how this benefits you!
Join an upcoming webinar to find out how you can create disciple-making movements in your church and community. We’ll be launching ‘The Four’ a simple way for online outreach. Register your interest and we’ll send you the zoom link before the event. RSVP by Tuesday 4 October 5pm.
Webinar date: Wednesday 5 October, 12-1pm AEST
Link
to registration - https://powertochange.org.au/resources/training-hub/
Join us for our Digital Ministry Webinar - 4th October 12 - 1pm.
This webinar has taken place please visit HERE to access the recording
Did you miss our Digital Ministries Webinar?
How is your ministry reaching out to "Digital Natives" - or "screen-agers"?
How are you recovering from COVID? Are people coming back ... have you lost a few along the way? How do we reach out to people in our "COVID-Normal" world?
Learn about some of our shared challenges and how Power to Change is embracing our new Digital World and using digital tools to answer some of these questions.
Watch the webinar:
Power to Change Digital Ministries Webinar
Password - #?1@m?wc
Webinar Special
Want to review the MyFriends Course for FREE?
We have set up a special course for you to review the materials and give us some feedback.
Click on MyFriends - Digital Ministries course
Student Enrolment Key: MyFriendsDigitalMinistries
This will give you access until Christmas 2022.
It isn't too late to join Term 4 groups - to register go to MyFriends - Power to Change
We would love your feedback on all our initiatives - thefour.au, Movement Builders Training Hub and our digital materials for MyFriends.
Who are you sharing the Gospel to?
We all want simple ways to share the Gospel with our friends, people we know or as part of our ministries out-reach. TheFour.au provides a simple way to do this. You can choose three different people - from different backgrounds and perspectives.
Nick is an Australian uni student, Yalena is a uni student mentor and Pastor Ska is a gamer - Who would your friend relate to the most?
Watch our webinar about Digital Ministries to learn more about TheFour and the perspectives each of the presenters use.
Power to Change Digital Ministries Webinar
Passcode:#?1@m?wc
Learn how to use TheFour effectively in our free training course HERE.
Did you know we can set up TheFour for your ministry? You can have a specific link - TheFour.au/YourMinistryName where the responses to your presentations of TheFour can be sent to you so your ministry can follow up, answer questions and meet people where they are to help them know Jesus.
Just fill in a request for a Church Console HERE.
This months SHIFTm2M - Movement Builders - How to put the Send/Multiply part of your Primary Pathway in place webinar was fantastic. John North and Aaron Daniell led a fantastic interactive session for Movement Builder practitioners to think about and share their experience.
How to build a multiplication strategy needs a mindset shift as most churches focus on training more evangelists which is an addition strategy.
Aaron explained the Multiplication Maturity model by asking 4 key questions:
1. Are we a church that does discipleship?
2. Are we a church that makes disciples?
3. Are we a church that makes disciplemakers?
4. Are we a church that makes multipliers?
I wonder where your church or ministry’s maturity be?
John led the discussion about how to create a multiplication strategy and changing the DNA to become one of “internal multiplication”, how to choose a multiplication strategy and how to plan to identify and develop multiplication leaders.
Missed the Webinar? See below to watch or listen at your own leisure.
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In our recent webinar we heard how different people have used MyFriends to intentionally grow their ministry.
Fiona shared how she moved a Womens' ministry from a fellowship group to proactively identifying where people were on their spiritual journey and intentionally walking with them.
Tim shared how he and his family live out “Love, Pray and Care” in his street and how he is forming a house church to help his neighbours find out more about Jesus’s story.
Dorothy, from the Door of Hope Church in Launceston, generously shared their experience with MyFriends and how they have used it as
part of the SHIFT m2M Strategy to build a strong disciple making movement and caring community.
If you missed the webinar or would like to pass it on to someone else the details are:
Passcode: MyFriends1!
After COVID Jules' church's playgroup attendance was at an all time low - they used MyFriends to revitalise how they connected with the community.
Playgroups are an important part of a churches’ ministry to enable church families to connect and grow together and as an outreach by sharing God’s love to families in the local community. This enables churches to stay connected with community and to grow with the next generation.
At Jules’ church, the playgroup ministry was in decline and after COVID only one or two families were coming regularly to the two weekly sessions. The playgroup team wanted to revitalise the ministry and use it as an outreach ministry – showing God’s love to local families.
The team attended the MyFriends training and learnt to intentionally look for ways to love, pray and care for all their families from the moment they showed interest in coming to playgroup.
This caring heart and welcoming nature changed the culture of playgroup. They also had a child focused space with lots of activities at the church’s first Christmas Makers Market.
Fast Forward six months – all the playgroup spots are full and have a waiting list! At the last “All In” Creative Family service over 50 children attended.
Join us for this terms MyFriends courses - Click on MyFriends