Evangelism Today!

Please pray for us as we do evangelism on campus today. We are going to be giving out some goody bags with pens, lollipops, erasers, Bible study invites and message sheets to students at UNACH. The on-campus Bible study starts next week. Pray that God will lead us to students who are open.

Prayer Request - TUXTLA 1/21/10

We've had a good week of preparing for the up-coming semester and re-connecting with students. Today we visited the UNACH campus to look at having Bible studies in the library. The space looks great;
Pray for this to be an open door for us!
We have our leader training time tonight (CDL) at 7pm.
Pray for Mark as he prepares to teach this Sunday about the Sabbath from Mark chapter 2 & 3.

Deysi, Abby, Lupita, Lili and Lupita hanging our in Chiapa de Corzo.

Prayer Request - TUXTLA

Pray for:
Motivation and our ability to reconnect with last semesters contacts, especially in the next two weeks as things can be slow before classes start again.

Our first meeting of the new year, this Thursday (the 14th). We will be planning for the upcoming semester and engaging in discipleship with our core members.

MINISTRY GOALS 2010 - Huffman

Goals for the Huffman's 2010

1) By the end of Feb. 2010 Aletheia Church in Tuxtla will begin to meet in a location other than our house, fostering independence from missionaries.
Importance 5%

2) During the 1st semester of 2010 we will mentor group members through modeling, weekly bible studies, teaching at large group gatherings, and one-on-one or small group discipleship.
Importance 20%

3) By the end of the 1st semester of 2010 we will train the church plant to function independently in the areas of teaching, worship, hospitality, and evangelism, discipleship and financial management, reaching the "Assist" phase of the MAWL approach to leadership development.
Importance 20%

4) Twice a week during the 2010 school year we will enlist national partners to participate in on-campus evangelism in which they will develop proficiency in building relationships, using apologetics, sharing the message of salvation, and inviting students to receive Christ and attend Bible studies and church services.
Importance 20%

5) Once a month the church will develop and fund a project that will engage the Tuxtla community by meeting physical and/or spiritual needs of a particular group.
Importance 10%

6) At least twice a month we will engage college students in Tuxtla through activities that may include music, food, sports, movies, parties and trips in order to build relationships and camaraderie and gain new contacts.
Importance 5%

7) We will implement a follow-up strategy for contacts that includes prayer, phone calls/texts, emails and personal visits in order to see at least two new visitors at bible studies/church services each week.
Importance 20%

8) After completing goal 3 we will in the 2nd semester of 2010, implement the "Watch" phase of the MAWL approach, continuing to mentor and support leaders.
Importance 20%

Our Goals' "Next Steps" this week

25%	TRAINING PROJECT	Write one day (Tuesday)
20%	CONTACT LIST	Meet 2 Contacts; English Club (next wk 1/22)
15%	WEEKLY GROUPS	Talk to Arely about starting a group at the UAQ
10%	ENGAGING URBAN TRIBES	[nada esta semana]
10%	NEW STREAMS	Look closely at North Greenville document and email;   contact Rudy?
20%	NEW CHURCH PLANT DEVELOPMENT 1 - EL BUEN ARBOL HOUSE CHURCH 2 - BETEL YOUTH CHURCH 3 - ALETHIA CHURCH - CHIAPAS	Set up meeting with Eduardo;  get in touch with Adoniram

2010 Goals for the Youngs

TRAINING PROJECT - 25% Train 5-8 20-somethings in basic church planting principles using a postmodern training style (Training, Ch Planting, Mobilizing) Written materials reviewed and prospective church planters meet with Mike.     April 30, 2010 Project completion     July 31, 2010

CONTACT LIST - 20% Build a list of 25-30 non-Christian 20-somethings with whom I am actively engaging with the gospel and then discipling.  Maintain a log tracking the progress you are making with each of these contacts. (Disc/Evan)      June 30, 2010

WEEKLY GROUPS - 15%  Develop 8-10 groups consisting of at least 75% non-Christians which meet regularly for Bible study, prayer, and/or discipleship on 2-3 different campuses and one in our home.  Students will lead these groups.  Participants in these groups will be new contacts for El Buen Árbol or beginning a new church.     December 31, 2010

ENGAGING URBAN TRIBES - 10% Design and develop methods to evangelize, disciple, and plant churches targeting the critical networks of urban tribes such as the “emo” population, musicians, street performers, and others. We will be praying for and working toward Persons of Peace in order to move into these critical networks.  We will use individual conversations, survey work to find out what the needs of this group are, then bible studies, prayer, and eventually training of others to reach them.     April 30, 2010

NEW STREAMS - 10% Identify and engage 3-4 new "streams," or "critical networks," of 20-somethings; i.e. nursing students, sports students, etc. with the ultimate goal of beginning new churches within these critical networks.  These may overlap with "Weekly Groups."  (Disc/Evan, Ch Planting)     May 31, 2010

NEW CHURCH PLANT DEVELOPMENT - 20% 1 - EL BUEN ARBOL HOUSE CHURCH (10%) Train the leaders in basic church planting principles.  Continue to mentor and equip them to take over the ministry of this new church plant by July 2010. 2 - BETEL YOUTH CHURCH (5%) Teach and support the leaders of the Betel youth church through on-going leadership training seeing them to the place where the youth church is planted and autonomous. - by June 30, 2010 3 - ALETHIA CHURCH - CHIAPAS (5%) Support and mentor Mark & Abby Huffman through regular contact (at least every 2 weeks through Skype, phone calls, emails, etc.) and at least 3 face-to-face times (Queretaro, Mission Meeting, Chiapas) - on-going (Training, Ch Planting, Mobilizing)     December 31, 2010

Posting Here

To Mark, Abby, and Laura,

Once we're all registered here as administrators (I'll find out how), we can put up up-coming events and individual appointments for "arrow" prayers--quick prayers to the Father from wherever we are. We can write a short blurb about an individual we're meeting with and the struggles we want the other teammates praying about.

One of the first postings should be our 2010 goals in a condensed form. I'll try to do that soon--tonight?

Each of us should "subscribe" to this blog too, so that any comments or updates go to our emails. Then we won't have to remember to access the site for the most recent info; it'll be sent directly to our emails.

I think this will be a great way to keep up with each other's ministry, but also to provide that prayer support Mark and Abby mentioned had been lacking. I know it'll be a help for me.

Steve