The Facilitator

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The Facilitators Course
Overview

• For the
• Encarnacao Alliance

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Course Overview

• 1. The goals of the grass roots training
• course and the commitment required
• 2. The physical resources required for a
• training group
• 3. Who are you? A journey of self discovery.
• 4. Theological skills for urban ministry
• 5. Discipling and training by story telling
• 6. Creating viable joy-filled communities
• 7. Pastoral Care of slum workers

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Course Overview

• 8. Selection of interns/trainees
• 9. Story telling, interaction and internship
• 10. Facilitation and assessment methods
• 11. Record keeping and communication
• 12. Accountability and support
• 13. Publicity
• 14. Becoming a Course writer?

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The Facilitators Goals

• Facilitation
• - Conduct 5 hours a week of interactive
  training with 6-10 trainees
• - Arrange ministry internships for each
  trainee for 8-20 hours/ wk
• - Participate in three monthly citywide urban
  poor training days, with your team, presenting a
  drama on a ministry exp.
• - Teach trainees to recruit

• Recruitment
• - Recruit 6-10 persons who are or want to be
  church planters, or community development workers
• - Recruit another 6-10 persons every 8 months
• - Teach your interns how to recruit other
  workers so they will have 6-10 persons working
  with them in 8months time.

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Facilitators Goals continued

• Discipleship goals
• - train 6-10 faithful people to be strong in
  the Lord
• - identify their gifts and ministries
• - empower them to be able to minister Gods
  love and compassion for the poor
• - become disciplined leaders of joy-filled
  communities among the urban poor

• Community transformation goals
• - seek the welfare of the city
• - improve the lifestyle of the poor
• - extend the influence of the kingdom of God
• - plant churches ( joy filled communities)
  among the urban poor

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Facilitators Commitment

• Either full-time or part-time for at least one
  year. Each intake lasts for 10 months.
• Full time will require 30 hours per week
• Part time will require 8-20 hours per week
• To be an incarnational example of an urban poor
  worker
• To be a disciple maker, mentor and leader
• To pastor, and encourage the trainees to recruit
  other faithful people

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The physical resources

• Access to a meeting place for the training of
  6-10 persons for a minimum of 5 hours
• Some drama equipment or props to use in dramas
  the trainees will create
• A white board or black board, chalk and pens, and
  a writing pad and New Testament for each trainee
• Some books containing cultural stories of the
  people you are living amongst that will inspire
  interesting dramas

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Discipling by storytelling

• The Bible is a collection of stories
• In the early church there was no New Testament
• Jesus, the disciples and apostles made disciples
  thru stories
• Their stories were powerful life related stories

• Select a doctrine or ministry skill you want to
  teach, and then look for a Biblical story to
  illustrate it
• Your life needs to reflect the kingdom values
  Jesus taught
• Change your actions to match biblical values

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Stories on CDs

• The Encarnacao Training Commission will supply
  CDs with power points and stories that
  illustrate truth from different cultures.
• A Trainers resource CD will be supplied at the
  Trainers Course that will provide a resource of
  back up materials for the personal study of the
  Trainer. This resource is more extensive than the
  training program.
• Your role is to facilitate the gathering of
  trainees in small groups where they learn to
  develop dramas to illustrate cultural and life
  related stories and skills for ministering among
  the urban poor.
• Encourage application of the stories in the
  context of the trainees you are training.

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Teach the truths of the stories

• The stories on the CD highlight truths that are
  important to extending the influence and power of
  the Kingdom of God among the urban poor.
• As a facilitator you will teach these truths by
  encouraging oral presentations, dramatic
  presentations, prayer and reflection on these
  truths by the trainees.
• Plan to help the trainees implement these truths
• Help the trainees to make up their own stories
  appropriate to their context and dramatise the
  stories, and teach biblical truths from them.

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A plan to obey the Word of God

• Values/Truth - N.T. Story - Memory verse -
  Action
• 1. Generosity
  Give to a
• 2 Cor 8 v 1-16 2 Cor 8 v 15
  poor brother
• Acts 24 v 17
• 2. No racism
• Acts 10 v 9 48 2 Cor 10 v 12
  Visit a person of
• Titus 1 v 10 16
  another race or caste
• 3. Obedience Luke 5 v 1-11
  Obey the Spirits
• Hebrews 11 v 8
  prompting
• 
  

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Storytelling shapes Biblical values

• By helping the trainees receive instruction from
  stories of the Holy Spirit at work bringing the
  Kingdom of God into the slums, you are able to
  shape their values
• Biblical values lead to Kingdom living
• People living in the Kingdom bring the power of
  the Kingdom into slum communities
• Gods welfare for the City is made known by
  Kingdom people involved in Kingdom actions.

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Building Kingdom Communities among the urban poor

• The goal of training trainers for ministry among
  the urban poor is to develop a multitude of
  joy-filled Kingdom communities among the slums of
  Asia, Africa and Latin America so the Kingdom of
  God can be experienced in all its fullness by the
  inhabitants of these slums.

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Be accountable to a spiritual mentor while
training others to minsiter among the urban poor

• All Training (Course) Facilitators who are
  coaching trainees in urban poor ministry are
  required to select a spiritual mentor to whom
  they will be accountable during the Training
  program.
• The mentor will report to the Training Director
  vital information and verify statistics required
  by our funders.

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Urban Poor Grassroots Trainers Module - Objective

• Objective
• To train urban poor church planting
  facilitators to utilize the urban poor church
  planting processes integrated throughout the
  Encarnacao Alliance.
• Action Objective
• The facilitators will utilize the principles
  in these modules with grassroots (illiterate and
  semi-literate) church planters in developing
  holistic church plants (communites) among the
  urban poor.

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Expected Facilitators Outcomes

• Knowledge/Understand
• The four seasons of growth, plus the principles
  of evangelism phase see chapters 9-10 in Cry
  of the Urban Poor
• The nature of oral storytelling methods for urban
  semi-literate contexts see power points on
  grass roots trainers training CD.
• The context of the slum and its effect on the
  style of church to be planted see the urban
  church planting resource CD or the website
  www.urbanleaders.org
• The progressions and momentum of small and large
  group dynamics on each season of growth see
  page 172 of Cry of the Urban Poor

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• How to evaluate gifts, values and motives and
  their effect on own training style and their use
  in selecting effective recruits.
• Teach trainees how to recruit trainees
• The theme and theology of the kingdom of God as
  it applies to the urban poor
• The value of holistic interventions in slum
  communities through preschools, schools, micro
  finance, community development.
• Know how to access the church planting resources
  on the resource CD provided.

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• Plan
• For each season of growth in the experience of
  the trainees and their evangelism phases
• And develop an initial pattern of stories that
  can be used for each season of growth in the
  evangelism phases among the urban poor
• And develop own diagram of how to utilize small
  and large group processes in ministry among the
  urban poor
• And develop a facilitators plan that is
  effective in achieving the action outcomes
  intended for grass roots church planters

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Action Outcomes for the grass- roots church
planters

• Facilitators will assist the grass roots church
  planters to achieve the following action
  outcomes
• Within the first month mentor them trough the
  phase they are at (of the Four Seasons p.172 Cry
  of the Urban Poor) by helping them understand
  the principles of that phase, development of
  storytelling, and understanding the momentum
  needed for small or large gatherings.

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• Within three months
• Facilitators will teach grass roots trainers to
  think ahead about the next phase of the four
  seasons of growth
• Facilitators will have taken their trainees to
  their first citywide training day for urban poor
  workers
• Within ten months
• The grass roots church planters will have been
  successful in evangelism, recruitment and the
  security phase and have planned teaching through
  storytelling, having developed group structures
  for the commitment and quality phases (depending
  on what phase they are at).

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Acknowledgements

• Viv Grigg. 1992. Cry of the Urban Poor. MARC.
  USA.
• Viv Grigg. 1989. Companion to the Poor. MARC.
  USA.
• John Mallinson, 1998. Mentoring to Develop
  disciples/leaders. Openbook. Australia.
• Bryant L Myers. 2003. Walking with the Poor.
  Orbis. USA.