1. HARVEST INIATIVE
SEEKER TO SALVATIONIST
Style may attract people to a church, but it won’t keep
them in. The church needs something substantial;
Fortunately, we have it.
2. HARVEST INIATIVE
SEEKER TO SALVATIONIST
STYLE & SUBSTANCE
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth
has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”
Matthew 28:18-20
Go = Attract = Seeker
Make = Disciple = Salvationist
3. HARVEST INIATIVE
SEEKER TO SALVATIONIST
PURP0SE
1. Heighten Awareness (Creative Focus)
2. Increase Intentionality
3. Identify Seeker Pools
4. Create Resources/Processes
5. Design A Working Prototype
6. Narrow the Ratio Gap (Make Disciples)
7. HARVEST INIATIVE
SEEKER TO SALVATIONIST
Jr. Soldiers
601 Ratio
6%
10.007
Seeker to
Salvationist (Member)
Ratios
8. HARVEST INIATIVE
SEEKER TO SALVATIONIST
PROCESS
1. The graphs are just a measurement tool
2. No specific goals or timelines
3. No additional paperwork
4. Our goal to enable, streamline, simplify
5. To explore creatively, discover together
6. To make Kingdom building fun & fulfilling
7. Relax, Rejoice in our calling
10. HARVEST INIATIVE
SEEKER TO SALVATIONIST
OUR SEEKER POOLS
1. Worship Services
2. ARC, Men’s/Women’s Ministry
3. Sunday School (Decision Sundays)
4. Camp, VBS
5. See following slide for a continuation
of list (compressed) submitted via Creative Caucus.
11. "To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him
regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if
the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft
upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine." - William Booth
Food Bank opportunities.
Angel tree–VBS invites.
1-900-ICARE THQ IT print labels
Camp–labels
Redwood Glen seeker report
Donors–Mail Appeal-prayer requests
Parenting Program Monterey
Sports Ministry
Family nights
LOM CCM
Lunch feeding program. Pastor’s Minute: quick and
loud. (earn right to speak to clients - hang out)
Tutoring, mentoring
Family services, regular special events, invitations,
reverse visitation
Free music lessons
Sunday bell ringer event. January, top bell ringer awards
Social services - prayer cards and the phone number
Text evangelism
Make corps a Poke stop. Sponsor PokeStop.
https://thrivehive.com/how-to-get-new-customers-with-pokemon-go
"No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very
strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls
of his meetinghouse has done his duty. A defense is required for services within
buildings rather than for worship outside of them."
Harborlight, residential programs connected to SA
Moore Street -women's shelter, officer chaplains
Prison work - families
“Go straight for souls, and go for the worst. We
must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will
take ourplace, and bear our cross, and thereby
rob us of our
crown.”
Food boxes with creative message and invitation inserted.
Blessing tree at Christmas (prayer requests and blessing)
Hand written response to donor prayer requests
Need to rethink Street ministry.
The open air was once a significant seeker pool.
Determine a need and fill it—
“Where the people are to be got at.”
Park Ministries
Consider demographic needs.
Feel free to add or react in the comments section below, please! Let’s not miss anything.
12. HARVEST INIATIVE
SEEKER TO SALVATIONIST
BRIDGING THE GAP
(Recruitment)
1. Visitation/Followup
2. Transitional programs
3. Timing/Invitation
4. See following slide for a continuation
of list (compressed) submitted via Creative Caucus.
13. "Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking.
First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely
distinguish which is the one and which is the other."
Music appealing culturally and relevantly
i.e. Brazilian Drum groups (Hollister).
Senior clubs
Visitation-text, email, card
Passion/Gifting
Sports Leagues
Newcomers Class
After school programs, SS, Special Interest,
Homework classes (tutoring)
Visitation teams
Satellite Programs
CARES Ministry
Birthday parties monthly at quarters (or think
creatively here).
Look for opportunities in what you are already
doing. Think soul winning intentionally.
“God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend
that we may serve it up in any sort of dish that will induce the people to partake
of it” - Catherine Booth
Think music opportunities other than brass.
Think culturally—not internal SA culture (exclusive),
but external culture (inclusive).
Upstage: Coffee house, open mic, non threatening.
Campfire initiative - Big Splash Party on Sunday
(Bar-B-Que)
Social media weekly blast
"If I thought I could win one more soul to the
Lord by walking on my head and playing the
tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!"
Block party, housing project, onsite SS, high visibility
Messy church in thrift store
Put them to work “heart for service” ownership.
Feel free to add or react in the comments section below, please! Let’s not miss anything.
14. HARVEST INIATIVE
SEEKER TO SALVATIONIST
CULTURAL/STRUCTURAL BARRIERS
1. Institutional Expectations
2. “Build it and they will come.”
3. See following slide for a continuation
of list (compressed) submitted via Creative Caucus.
15. A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a
place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if
ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads! - Catherine
Booth
Release people to do their “10.”
Statistics recording unmanageable.
Simplify and prioritize.
Sunday School on Sundays? Statistically?
Mandated SS Programs. Word Action:
chastised for not using
Mandated programs, do not fit every corps situation.
Short appointments, terminology
Spanish songbooks and Sunday school material
Hispanics don’t feel strongly represented
Divisional facilitator
“Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is
in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of
labour for the souls of men.”
Broad expectations (Focus)
Unrealistic statistical expectations
Reluctance to commit to membership
Trouble with term Salvationist. Disciple, member?
Seeker to Disciple?
Clearly define seekers (Confusion here)
Expectations greater then time available (Christmas).
Priorities.
Length of appointments
Training of local leaders. The culture has changed.
CSM in name only.
Mission versus machine (fatigue/fear)
Feel free to add or react in the comments section below, please! Let’s not miss anything.
16. HARVEST INIATIVE
SEEKER TO SALVATIONIST
SLIDESHARE.NET
http://www.slideshare.net/joenoland5/seeker-to-salvationist
We’ll use this online resource to keep the creative
caucus going omnipresently in Cyberspace, thereby
negating the problem Dilbert and cast are experiencing
in the following slide. Feel free to share this Slideshare
presentation with anyone who might contribute
positively to those sections in slides 10-15, 18.
17.
18. HARVEST INIATIVE
SEEKER TO SALVATIONIST
NEW SEEKER POOLS
(Intro to Phase 2)
1. According to Gifting/Passions
2. After School Clubs
3. Revival of Sports Leagues
4. Internet Evangelism
5. Feel free to add/react to this
category as well.
19. HARVEST INIATIVE
SEEKER TO SALVATIONIST
BEYOND OUR WILDEST DREAMS!
A farmer planted seed. As he scattered the seed, some of it fell on the
road, and birds ate it. Some fell in the gravel; it sprouted quickly but didn’t
put down roots, so when the sun came up it withered just as quickly. Some
fell in the weeds; as it came up, it was strangled by the weeds.
Some fell on good earth, and produced a harvest
beyond his wildest dreams.
(Matthew 13:3-8)
