CHAOS

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CHAOS ORDER

• Using the Wesleyan Quadrilateral for theological
  perspective
• Experience
• Tradition
• Reason
• Community
• Scripture

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Chaos Order in Theological Perspective

• Experience
• Tradition
• Reason
• Community
• Scripture

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Chaos Order in Scripture

• Genesis
• Creation
• Noah
• Chosen People
• Exodus
• Israelites blessed and oppressed
• Plagues and exodus
• Ten Commandments other instruction

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Chaos Order in Scripture

• Leviticus
• Ordered life
• Numbers
• Ordered community
• Deuteronomy
• Gods explanation of wandering years
• Joshua
• Obeying Gods direction

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Chaos Order in Scripture

• Isaiah
• Kingdom prophesied 11
• Ministry to Gentiles 42
• Micah
• Gods will
• New Testament
• Jesus
• Paul
• Revelation

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Order

• Where people and things are in the proper places
  in relationship to each other.

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Chaos

• Where chance is supremeutter confusion
  existsunpredictability is inherent in natural
  behavior

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Chaos Order in Theological Perspective

• What is Gods intent regarding order?
• What is Gods intent regarding chaos?

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The Theological Core of Ministry Administration

• We seek to participate with God in creating
  enough order to facilitate the chaos that comes
  when He is present, ordering ourselves consistent
  with His nature and His Kingdom purposes.

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Participating with God

• Naming God in the world

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The Necessity of Church Administration

• Because the church is human
• Because the church is corporate
• Because the church has a mission

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Administration in the Church

• In the context of church life, administration
  may be defined as a discipline helping the church
  order its life, enabling it to move toward
  fulfillment of its mission.

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Administrative Functions
LEADING
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DEFINING ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTION

• LEADING The art of influencing people to work in
  cooperative systems to achieve goals
• PLANNING Determining the future course of action
  by assessment of needs setting goals,
  priorities, and procedures and review
• ORGANIZING Structuring groups for life and work,
  clarifying relationships, assigning
  responsibilities, delegating authority,
  establishing accountability
• STAFFING Selecting, training, developing people
  for work based on skills, gifts
• DIRECTING Synchronizing, mentoring,
  coordinating, creating accountability for
  agreed-upon goals
• EVALUATING Creating accountability for
  agreed-upon goals

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DemographicsUnderstanding People and Place

• ALP Project Who are the people we will study
  and work with and what is their context for life
  and ministry?

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Demographics

• Description of the vital statistics or objective
  and quantifiable characteristics of an audience
  or population.

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What does demographics include?

• Population
• Age
• Marital Status
• Income
• Family Size
• Ethnicity
• Personal Household Characteristics
• Age, Sex, Income, Educational Level

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What questions does demographics answer?

• How many people live in the area?
• How is the number of people projected to change?
• How old are the people?
• What race and nationality are they?
• How well educated are the people?
• What is their religious preferences?

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Victorville Demographics
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Victorville Demographics

• 2004 Population 251,687

• Large Young Families 28.8

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Victorville Demographics

• 57.6 White
• 28.5 Hispanic

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Victorville Demographics

• 50k 79k 21.5

• Average Age 34.7

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Victorville Demographics
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Victorville Demographics
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Victorville Demographics
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Victorville Demographics
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Victorville Demographics

• Lifestyle Segments

• One of the highest number of children 0 14
• Ranks high in the number of personnel on active
  duty in the armed services
• Far more likely to be heavily involved with
  their faith
• Religious affiliations highest above average
  are
• Mormon (ranks number one in all segments)
• New Age
• Holiness
• Non-Denominational
• Jehovahs Witness

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Victorville Demographics

• Faith

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Victorville Demographics

• Faith Cont.

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Victorville Demographics

• Primary Concerns

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Victorville Demographics

• Primary Concerns

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Victorville Demographics

• Primary Concerns

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Victorville Demographics
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Spiritual Development
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Spiritual Development
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Spiritual Development
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Spiritual Development
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Conclusion

• Young families with children
• Growing Hispanic Population
• Concerns for family issues
• Mainly middle class suburban families

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Applied Learning Project (ALP) with Living Waters
Foursquare Church (LWF) Assignments
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ALP with Living Waters Foursquare Church(Sign
up today with two people on each task)

• Theological Perspective
• Demographics
• Needs
• Purpose (Mission Vision)
• Objectives Milestones
• Ideas Roadblocks
• Resources
• Priorities
• Evangelism and Outreach
• Introduction and Summary (for all students to
  complete)
• Introduction (What are the basic questions of MP
  and opening of our ALP?)
• Summary (assimilate all ideas into a coherent
  recommendation for LW)
• This will be posted to our website for the class
  to view