United in Spirit

1. United in Spirit Team Work

2. 4 to be presented: • Functionalities and strategies for church developing • What did we do in 2008? • The goal of 2009: Unite in Spirit & Team Work • How to reach the goal?

3. The functions of church minisrtry People Missions Training Coworkers Momentum Quality Resources Resources Administration These 3 functions work together in every ministry

4. The strategies of ministry

5. What did we do in 2008? Administration • Merger plan • Pastoral prayers • Joint Comm. • Elder meetings • Deacon meetings • Elder prayers • SECC meeting • Church clean-up Missions • Support BSG • Baptisms • Caring & Visit • Gospel Camp. • Retreat • Missions Conf. • Evangelistics • Short-term mi. • Perry County • Thanksgivings • Christmas Training • Worships • Prayer meet • Sunday School • Fellowship • Others

6. 2009 Goal

7. 2009 Ministry Goals

8. How to approachUnited in Spirit & Teamwork Pray for the spiritual revival Let’s simply do the following 3 things: • Daily devotion and attend prayer meeting. • Care for and lead others to believe. • Work with a difficult coworker.

9. United in Spirit&Teamwork

10. Knowing God’s word by the sound teaching

11. Living out God’s word in our daily life

12. Manifesting God’s presence through loving one another

13. Extending God’s kingdom by enthusiastic evangelism

14. Building a healthy church by teamwork

15. Support Bible Study Groups Set up Montgomery C. C. Shades Mountain C. BSG TuscaloosaC. C. TuscaloosaC. BSG AuburnC. BSG MobileC. C. North CarolinaC. BSG(Shenen Chen)

16. Baptism（22）

17. What did we do in Worship? • 28 sermons on Jesus’ parables • 6 sermons on Apostles’ Creed • Special topics for New Year、Easter 、Thanksgivings 、Christmas • More praise team members • Separate the song leader from worship chairperson

18. Quarterly Prayer themes

19. What did we learn from Sunday School? • Seekers’ class • The first year of the eternal life • 1st quarter：Daniel、Matthew • 2nd quarter：Israelite kingdom、 Philippians&Colossians • 3rd quarter：Psalms、Christian ethics • 4th quarter：Jeremiah、Revelation • Children teachers’ training (CEF) • S. S. teachers’ training – Pedagogy

20. What did we do in fellowship? • Trainings：Personal evangelism、 How to team up for evanglism? • Fellowship leaders meetings • Bible studies: Hebrews 、Luke • Support Tuesday woman group • Support Wednesday Idlewild Circle

21. Ephesians4:2~6 with all humility and gentleness, with atience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit--just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call-- one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

22. Philippians2:1~11 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

23. John17:20~26 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."

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26. Ecclesiastes4:12 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him--a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

27. I Corinthians12:12~27 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.“ On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

28. Finish 1 mile in 4 minutes Chained reaction Bad apple principle Attitude is everything

29. Everyone has a position to serve

30. Let others participate your work

31. The goals of missions • Help NCBCin 2009 SECC retreat • Evangelistic meetings(Feb.、Nov.) • Annual revival / missions conf.(Oct.) • Enhance the Gospel-team activities • Enhance the ability of personal evangelism • Taiwan missions trip(July VGF Eng. camp) • China missions trips(May、Oct.) • Perry County missions

32. Evaluation goals in missions

33. The goals of training • Improve prayer meetings • Gospel Sunday in every 2 months • Empower pulpit services • Plan the educational curriculum in every group • Enhance the team work in worship services • Continue the Bible pre-study and fellowship coworkers’ training • Provide training to educational, youth, children, missions, and administration coworkers

34. Evaluation goals in training

35. The goals of administration • Create2009ministry calendar • Create 2009coworkers’ list • Renew2009church directory • Communicate and pass the merger plan • Solve the pressure of space in children, youth, and banquet services • Avoid the burn-out in our dedicated coworkers • Improve church website • Secure ministry with the backup system

36. Evaluation goals in administration

37. Spiritual revival • Revive our daily devotion • Revive the relationships with parents, spouse, children • Revive our services： • A willing heart to serve • Serving to please God • Serving to equip self and others • Revive our working attitude