Yesterday I had the privilege of attending the 4x14x14 Initiative. In short, 4x14x14 is an initiative adopted by the pastors of the 14 largest or leading edge United Methodist churches in the Texas Annual Conference. The idea was that each leading edge church would commit to launch a church plant, multi site, venue or merger by 2014. They would also commit to recruiting 4 people into the collaborative mentoring community (4x14x14). They would meet at least 4 times per year and at each gathering they would bring in a guest speaker, a virtual who's who from one of 7 areas of ministry. Multi site, Planting, Leadership Development, Multiplication, Mentoring, Missional or Prayer.
In yesterdays meeting our speaker was Chris Mavity. He is on staff at North Coast Church in California. They are one of the churches that pioneered multi site ministry. In yesterday's meeting he was discussing amongst other things how to effectively select, train and keep volunteers.
His talk was incredibly useful and practical information. Way to much to go into in this blog but one of the quotes that stuck out to me was "select your volunteers, don't recruit them." This is a simple difference but one that has long lasting impact on how effective they will be and longevity of their commitment. We shouldn't give help them do a "duty" rather help them fulfill a "destiny" one they were created for and gifted to do.
Tonight we have the first of our informational meetings for our North Campus. The room will be full of potential volunteers. Please pray that God would call and then help us discern where they need to serve. Pray that God would raise up "supper Volunteers' that can head up various ministries and coordinate and lead other volunteers. Pray that God would raise up future pastors who will come to lead these ministries for years to come!
We will then have a identical meeting on the 19th as well pray for the above requests for this event as well.
Praise God! We have signed a contract on our house in Carrollton and have just a few days for it to go through. Please continue to pray that nothing falls apart in the mean time.
Thank You for praying
Jeff, Kim, Max, Josh and Tate
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