1. Purpose Driven Essentials Overview How to Grow a Healthy Church
Centered on the Great Commandment and the Great Commission and God given purposes this interactive course equips the participants to take the essential next steps in their local church development to achieve church health.
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How does Purpose Driven Essentials equip you?
To explore church health Read more…
Essentials will provide a grounding and clear foundation of the changes and implementation steps that will help your church to grow in health. The interactive character of the training will allow questions and personalization of the experience to tap into the collective wisdom in the room.
To connect to coaching to support you through implementation
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If you have set out to implement the Purpose Driven Church (PDC) paradigm and to transform your church, you can access Coaching sessions to give you insights and things to consider as you take the next logical steps towards PDC implementation, whether they are crawl, walk or run steps.
To continue implementation while transitioning to new principles Read more…
Implementation takes time and commitment and includes successes and challenges. The interactive character of this course and the resources available in the training and coaching sessions makes the course valuable regardless of how far along you are in implementation. Course repeats are welcomed.
To share insights and lessons learned from other churches Read more…
As part of the network of churches around the U.S. that have experienced increased health and growth, you will overcome difficulties and see the positive results. You will benefit by continuing to learn from other churches by sharing your insights , lessons learned and offer encouragement to those who are just starting.
To share the learnings to equip other churches domestically and globally Read more… This training provides a format for you to help other churches in your area or in your mission field to adopt the pathway to church health. It will allow you to participate, master, lead discussions and prepare to offer your own training.
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How Essentials Works
Registration Register on-line at ……TBD…. or complete and return the Registration Form.
Essentials Group Formation
You will be invited to attend and commit to a class which best meets the availability you indicated during registration. The Group may include pastors and leaders from beginners to apprentices to journeymen to implementers. Everyone should be able to find people to learn from as well as others they can help by sharing their lessons learned.
Invitation to the Monthly Training Session About a week prior to each of the scheduled eight monthly 2 ½ - 4 hour Training Sessions, an reminder of the session times and instructions on how to join the meeting will be sent. It may also include references to the video segments to be reviewed prior to the meeting, Learning Objectives and potential questions that may be used to guide discussions.
The Interactive Monthly Training Session The session discussions will normally last three hours. In the hour before the meeting, the referenced video clips will be shown for those who didn’t get the time to review them on their own. The discussions may start with presentations by the facilitator and then be followed by interactive discussions: One to explore understanding of the concepts, one to explore challenges and methods of implementation, and one to address the month’s implementation goals.
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How Essentials Works, Continued
The Training Session After-Action Report Shortly following each monthly Training Session, each participant in the course will receive a summary report about the session. It will restate the video references, the Learning Objectives, and it will provide the course roster. A synopsis of key discussions will be included and a reference to where the meeting is archived. The report will also state the 30 day plan goals and schedule of Coaching meetings that will be available in the next 30 days.
Coaching Sessions There are two types of Coaching Sessions: One is a regularly scheduled one-hour weekly Coaching Session available to each group. This is facilitated to explore questions and progress the participant churches are making on their 30-day plan goals. The other Coaching Sessions augment the Training Sessions with a presentation and discussion of topical subjects. These special topic sessions will also be offered as one-hour sessions, repeated every few months.
Course “Completion” and Evaluation Upon conclusion of the course, all attendees completing at least 75% of the sessions will receive a completion certificate and will be asked to evaluate the course. The participants are welcome to repeat the course when new groups are formed. They also can continue to network with other course participants and join in on scheduled Coaching Sessions.
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How You Can Effectively Participate in the Course
Register Join the growing network of Purpose Driven Churches!
Review the Introductory Materials. Review the tutorial about how to effectively manage your meeting participation. Also review the tutorial about how to use the Global PD Resource website.
Prepare for each Session. Once you register and receive the Training Session Introduction, access the Global PD Reference website and printout the lesson notes and view the lesson’s videos. Review the discussion questions, put some thought into your answers or questions of your own.
Contribute your questions and concerns during discussions. Actively participate! Be respectful and share the time. Present your concerns.
Contribute your insights, lessons learned and offer encouragement to others. If Be sure to share your experiences that can offer insights and lesson learned which can help others on their journey. Look for opportunities to give encouragement and share testimonies of positive results.
Lead topic discussions when called upon. The facilitator may ask you to lead part of a discussion session. Accept and use the question examples to guide and feel free to contribute ones timely to the discussion flow. Let’s build a network to help one another.
Participate in Coaching sessions as needed to amplify and overcome. The Coaching sessions are optional; they are offered for your benefit. Join them to drill down on your issues or join them to continue the dialog with other participants and to share insights.
Network with others to continue development and promotion of the process. You will receive contact information for others in you session; you are encouraged to form alliances , partnerships and to continue to implement and refine your process.
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Why was the Essentials Course developed?
Background
Saddleback Church has served churches all over the world introducing them to a lifestyle for becoming healthy, growing spiritually and physically as they gather more souls into the Kingdom. This lifestyle has developed to what we call Purpose Driven. The Purpose Driven Church (PDC) paradigm was started with Rick Warrens' book “The Purpose Driven Church” and has been taught nationally and internationally to church pastors and leaders.
Tens of thousands of churches have implemented the process and strategy.
Saddleback has set out to develop an implementation training tool that is affordable and transportable; a tool that doesn’t rely on exclusively Saddleback’s knowledge and insights, but draws on the rich resource of PD Churches all over the world. This interactive, group training course is the result. It guides churches through PDC implementation with shared insights from others in your network.
Scope of Training
The course was planned to introduce the essential characteristics of a healthy church. It is designed to systematically introduce the implementation steps in a logical order. Finally it is designed to offer flexible learning objectives, so that the course experience is valuable whether a church is at a crawl, walk, or run stage .
Economical “Attendance” Attendance in the course is online from you location to link up with a n online group, hosted by a facilitator seasoned in training the principles.
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Why was Essentials developed?
Interactive Participation
One has the opportunity to raise questions about the process and strategy or express individual concerns as changes are envisioned to local contexts and cultures.
Coaching Availability The training is designed to incorporate access to weekly coaching sessions and develop a continuing support system throughout the implementation process.
Reproducible Format The training design and format is developed with the specific goal of being exportable to other Churches throughout the US and around the world.
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