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- That will take 6 million dollars and 27 new men hired for this work.
Helpful Resource MaterialThe North American Mission Board had provided a number of the finest preparation and follow up materials on the market. They no longer provide that material. They currently have the Directory of the Southern Baptist Vocational Evangelists (to know who all the vocational evangelists are), which includes a generic revival manual. The Evangelism Planner on CD is so complicated and difficult to use that you would need 100 men calling on pastors around the clock to let them know it even exists and then 500 men explaining around the clock how to use it. I do not recommend the A Campaign for Revival, Renewal and Evangelism which is the current offering. It is too confusing. I hope this will be corrected and updated for the God’s Plan for Sharing (GPS) and the Acts 1:8 campaign, but since Personal/Mass Evangelism does not have one single specialist in this area this task is impossible. With no funding and no personnel to promote the material it is going to take a miracle. There is an urgent need for A God’s Plan for Sharing (GPS) or Acts1:8 Revival Manual and a reprinting or packaging of the resources mentioned below adapted to the “Acts 1:8 Initiative.” When NAMB dropped its 6 million dollar budget for the Celebrate Jesus 2000 Campaign in Southern Baptist Churches across America it killed its chance of an across the board, comprehensive uniting of Baptists for an evangelistic outreach to all of America by the year 2000, goodbye. Unless the leadership of NAMB provides funds for this task, State Executive Directors are going to have to withhold funds from NAMB for its own Evangelism Department to provide these materials. It is my prayer that the Mass Evangelism Group at NAMB be adequately funded and that at least 27 new men be added immediately to the Mass Evangelism Group staff so they can get the job done. That is the number we had when we were producing and applying material. The once 4 million dollar budget of Personal/Mass evangelism is less than one million dollars! The men on staff are assigned to other tasks. In today’s market it would take an operating budget of at least 6 million dollars to even get started on the task and to be back where we were when we were really trying to baptize 500,000. For the year that we have simultaneous crusades it will take an additional 12 million dollars for the publicity campaign. Where is the material for planting a church out of a Tent Revival meeting? Where is the man power to train enough ICE workers so that every Association has enough ICE workers to give to each church, to win souls on the Saturday before the local churches revival starts on Sunday? The evangelist can harvest these souls won to Christ into the church during the revival. Mass evangelism brings every area of church, associational, state and convention growth, maturity and evangelism to consummation. Yet we have miniscule mass evangelism funding. We do not have the man power to even get started on this task. NAMB historically is the Revival evangelism for missions in North America. If this organization continues to totally ignore Mass evangelism, baptisms will continue to drop. The only alternative is for State Conventions pour funding into their own Evangelism Groups and add huge staffs to fill this void. I pray that NAMB will gird up her loins, bite the bullet, and do the job. Nation wide simultaneous or Wave Revivals buoy up the work of the church by reaching the lost and adding finances, laborers, new choir members Sunday school teachers and new churches etc… The results are noticeable for years. Mass evangelism is the only method that ties all other ministries together. Our greatest and most effective work in evangelism is when we serve the Lord together. Each individual church is blessed when the Gospel is simultaneously shared in every home by all the churches in preparation for crusades. The message is most effectively spread when all are witnessing. This needs to be a coordinated and cooperative work. Concerning baptisms in SBC churches, 10% of all baptisms come out of Vacation Bible School. Because of this is true, LifeWay spends a huge amount of money and expends a great amount of man power on providing some of the best resource material on earth. In Fact LifeWay went through a period where they dropped off in emphasizing VBS. Since many churches quit having VBS and baptisms dropped. In an urgent game of catch up they got all the man power needed and borrowed from other departments in an effort to get as many trained in and helping by multiplying resource people. As it stands 100,000 people are currently promoting and training pastors and churches in VBS. Because 15% and 33% of baptisms in SBC churches come from revival meetings, NAMB who is the provider of Revival Resource Material for all SBC churches should be putting forth even more funds and man hours in assisting our churches in this even more effective work. Revivals can once again produce more than 33% of our baptisms. We could easily have 200,000 or more promoting and training and practicing effective outreaches in revival tied to personal soul winning. Yet for some reason over the past eight years, NAMB has almost done away with or buried revival resource material. The man power has been cut down to zero. Some of this material may exist but there is not one man on the road teaching us where it is and how to find it, much less how to use it. The material on the Evangelism Planner CD is not user friendly. NAMB needs 100 men on the road full time just to explain how to use it. When I try to find and use the material, I am like the Ethiopian, I ask, "How can I…unless someone guides me?" For the Glory of God and the sake of souls hire some men to guide us in Mass Evangelism. Give them a budget so they can get out and guide us! They had it at one point and were defunded before they could get the job done. Please, before it is too late, before we lose an entire generation to hell, get going with funding and men to promote and multiply themselves from 10 to 30 men into 200,000. Below is a list of some items that can no longer be ordered from the Event Evangelism Division of the North American Mission Board 4200 North Point Parkway, Alpharetta, Georgia 30022 (770)-410-6000. New names are being given to these resources and prices are changing at the writing of this book. 211 01P Revival Planbook for the Local Church 211 17P Youth/Adult Partnership Revival Planbook 211 14P Guide for Conducting a Mission Revival 211 20 P Statewide and Associational Simultaneous Revival Planbook 211 13P Follow up Guide for Local Church Revival 211 08P Revival Training Seminar Notebook 211 30P Associational Partnership Revivals 211 16P Simultaneous Revival Brochure 211 02P Counseling Guide 211 07P Preparation Through Prayer) 211 29P Area Crusade:Introduction 211 05P Area Crusade:Organization 211 06P Area Crusade:Committees 211 28P Personal Commitment Guide 211 19P Manual for Use and Care of Tents 211 15P How to Locate and Cultivate Evangelistic Prospects [filmstrip] 211 24P Revival Preparation [videotape] 211 25P Revival Preparation [videotape] 211 21P The Offer Stands [media packet] 211 22P Good News America [film] Celebrate Jesus DVD How to plant a church through a Revival meeting Generic Radio Broadcasts to advertise Revivals(CD) Generic Television Advertising for Revival (DVD) Generic News Paper ads for revival Book on Specialty nights for Attendance in Revival Yearly plan of Evangelism Harvest Day Manual Evangelistic Sunday School Lessons, (Detailed How to give an invitation in your Sunday School class for Sunday School teachers) FOLLOW UP TRACTS 211 09P Life Commitment) 211 10P A New Dimension 211 11P Toward Christian Maturity 211 12P Your New Life Any thorough preparation for a revival will result in more conversions, greater attendance, more stirring in the church and a far greater love offering. God is honored in them all. In the past, The North American Mission Board Manual had proven equally effective to my own, when followed. I highly recommended them, both in area crusades and in the local church. They need to update and reprint the materials to go along with the Acts 1:8 initiative. The problem is they do not have one man at this present time even hired to work on this material much less to criss-cross the country promoting and teaching it. That will take 6 million dollars and 27 new men hired for this work. The following article from our God’s Way News Letter gives testimony to using a revival Planbook: Download 1.04 Mb. Share with your friends:
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