Minnesota Wisconsin Baptist Convention
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Evangelism

 
 
The Evangelism Team of the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention exists to organize, equip, and motivate our churches for passionate evangelism.

Organize: We will organize our churches with an emphasis on;

1.  Evangelistic Prayer:  Focus on the power of evangelism.

2.  Evangelistic Preparation: Focus on the plan of evangelism.

3.  Evangelistic Proclamation: Focus on the people of evangelism.

Equip: We will equip our churches with an emphasis on;

1. Providing Strategy: Evaluations, Training, and Implementation.

2.  Providing Training: Conferences, Seminars, and One-on-One.

3.  Providing Resources: Ideas and supplies as needed.

Motivate: We will motivate our churches with an emphasis on:

1.  Empower: Our annual evangelism conference in March.

2.  E.D.G.E.: Quarterly Associational evangelism teams.

3.  Presence: Team available to Churches upon request.

   
 
 
Click on the Revup Podcast logo to listen to the latest evangelism ideas from the Evangelism Team.
 
 
 
The annual Empower Conference is held in March and is designed to equip, empower pastors, church leaders, and members in engaging and reaching their communities and world with the message of Jesus Christ.  www.empoweronline.org  
   
 
 
Click on the Empower Podcast logo to listen to the main sessions from Empower 2007
   
 
Celebrate Baptism is a Minnesota-Wisconsin emphasis the has 4 simple goals for pastors and churches.
 
Goal One:
Each church invest in the lives of 3 new people this year.
 
Goal Two:
Each church baptize at least three people this year.
 
Goal Three:
Every Bible study fills an empty chair.
 
Goal Four:
Every church starting an intentional evangelism strategy that leads 3 people to Christ every month.
 
   
 
This new evangelism software will help pastors and church evangelism teams design, plan,and schedule a comprehensive yearly evangelism strategy or a specific evangelistic event.  With a simple point and click, pastors and church leaders can design their plan to change their communities for Christ. 
 
 
 
Touched Twice is a Christ-centered, faith based organization that strives to bring healing and peace to our community. We act as a catalyst, mobilizing volunteers from area churches to set up periodic Clinics. There, we use licensed volunteers to meet our neighbors' most pressing medical needs: diagnosing and treating disease, performing medical screenings, giving vision care, providing dental work, and providing chiropractic treatment. We also provide free food (a warm meal plus pantry items) and clothing. That's how we reach out to touch people - the first time.
 
Like the blind man Jesus healed, though, people often need more than one touch to be made whole. After meeting our neighbors' direct physical needs, we touch them a second time with volunteer Advocates who share love, concern, and the Good News that we are all children of a loving God who wants to be in relationship with us - to bridge the gap that sin causes. Whenever possible, we connect them with a neighborhood church.  Touched Twice site: www.the-clinic.org
   
 
The Acts 1:8 Challenge is a comprehensive missions strategy based on Christ's promise of the Holy Spirit to empower His disciples to share the Gospel in "Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

MWBC leaders are encouraging churches to apply Acts 1:8 in their ministry contexts each year by participating in missions concurrently on the local, state, national and international level.

By adopting the missions strategy, churches would commit to mobilize volunteers for missions in their "Jerusalem" through opportunities in their local Baptist associations, their "Judea" through their state conventions, their "Samaria" through NAMB (North American Mission Board) and "the ends of the earth" through IMB (International Mission Board). www.ActsOne8.com 
   
 
 
   
 
 
This one-day experience is packed with interactive discussion, idea sharing and gives you and your evangelism team the starting point for an effective outreach plan in your own church.

Contact the MWBC Evangelism Director for more information.  sundeen@mwbc.org