LIFT UP CHRIST TELL THE WORLD

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• A dynamic infrastructural development
  initiative aimed at building churches, schools,
  etc, throughout the SID

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MOTIVATION

• The Lords rebuke to His people during the days
  of Haggai provides us with the biblical
  motivation for this initiative

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MOTIVATION

• This is what the Lord Almighty says These
  people say, The time has not yet come for the
  Lords house to be built.

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MOTIVATION

• Go up into the mountain and bring down timber
  and build the house, so that I may take pleasure
  in it and be honored, says the Lord. Haggai 12
  8.

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MOTIVATION

• Our division membership is growing rapidly and we
  urgently need to build the physical
  infrastructure to house our new congregations. In
  addition to this, we may need to form new
  conferences and fields

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MOTIVATION

• to administer these new congregations and that
  will require additional office facilities and
  staff houses. In order to train enough employees
  to care for these new congregations and

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MOTIVATION

• staff these new organizations we will need to
  expand facilities at our universities, colleges
  and schools.

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MOTIVATION

• The following comment by Ellen White illustrates
  just how important it is to plan for
  infrastructural development when we evangelize.

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MOTIVATION

• When an interest is aroused in any town or city,
  that interest should be followed up. The place
  should be thoroughly worked, until a humble house
  of worship stands as a sign, a memorial of God's
  Sabbath,

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MOTIVATION

• a light amid the moral darkness. These memorials
  are to stand in many places as witnesses to the
  truth.--Testimonies, Vol. 6, p. 100. (1900)

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MOTIVATION

• The same writer makes it clear that new
  congregations need to be as self-reliant in this
  matter as possible

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MOTIVATION

• When a church is raised up, the members are to
  arise and build. Let the newly converted ones,
  under the direction of a minister who is guided
  by the advice of his fellow ministers, work with
  their own hands,

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MOTIVATION

• saying, We need a church and we must have a
  church and we will each do our best in helping in
  the building. Evangelism, p. 379.

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MOTIVATION

• There are times, however, when the rapid growth
  of our church necessitates the transfer of
  resources from areas of surplus to places of
  urgent need.

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MOTIVATION

• The Haggai Venture is a golden opportunity for
  all of us to assist in the development of new
  church infrastructure within our division.

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GOALS

• The following are specific goals that are
  envisaged under the Haggai Venture
• 1. The division head office shall provide guiding
  statistics which will indicate the projected
  number of new churches required to meet the
  anticipated membership growth in each union
  during this quinqennium.

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GOALS

• 2. The unions will consult with their conferences
  and fields to determine where these new churches
  should be built for maximum local benefit and
  growthprioritized according to such aspects as
  unentered areas, potential growth points,
  prominence, etc.

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GOALS

• 3. The unions and their conferences and fields
  are to establish Church Development Funds at all
  levels, including congregational, and vigorously
  promote contributions to these funds.

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GOALS

• 4. In addition to a five-year plan, each union
  and its entities must have an annual Haggai
  Venture development plan. These plans must be
  specific in terms of location, time table,
  property ownership, etc.

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GOALS

• When drafting these plans unions should also be
  sensitive to the need to establish and strengthen
  the minority work in their territory.

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GOALS

• 5. At every Mid-year/Year-end meeting time should
  be given to reporting and evaluating the Haggai
  Venture projects. The reports must be given with
  the assistance of slide/video material to verify
  the progress on the various projects.

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ACTION PLANS

• 6. Establish Haggai Venture Committees to
  oversee the plans and the activities of the
  initiative at each level of the SIDs
  organizational structure. Care must be given to
  ensure that the ratio of membership on these
  committees be as follows 25 workers/75
  laypersons.

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ACTION PLANS

• 7. Challenge established congregations to adopt
  newly-established companies with a view to
  helping them build churches as soon as possible.

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ACTION PLANS

• 8. Urge that the unions, conferences and fields
  supervise all Haggai Venture projects to ensure
  that quality standards are maintained at all
  times.

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ACTION PLANS

• 9. Encourage all unions, conferences and fields
  to budget specifically for Development Funds
  which can be used for these projects.

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ACTION PLANS

• 10. Encourage lay members, especially business
  persons, to become involved in the funding of
  church building and other capital development
  projects such as schools, offices, etc., that
  will speed up the achievement of our mission.

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