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Ideas to Help Your
Group Dream

Team Ministry Objectives

Wesleyan Men work together in a wide variety of effective ministries to make a difference in their world for good and for God. Here are a few ideas your local chapter might consider. Your group, especially if it is new, may not be able to do everything you dream of doing right now, but you can concentrate on one or a few areas and excel in each of them.

REACHING MEN WHO ARE UNINVOLVED IN THE CHURCH

  • Help the pastor organize Wesleyan Men visitation teams to participate in your church's outreach ministry or calling program.
  • Conduct a friendship evangelism training course for men in your group and follow it up by helping them lead a series of home Bible studies to which they invite their unchurched friends.
  • Sponsor a special outreach ministry at a nearby jail, prison, hospital, nursing home, group home for the mentally and physically impaired, or some other institution in your community.

DEVELOPING FAMILY LEADERSHIP

  • Ask the pastor or a mature mentor to teach men in your group how to lead family devotions.
  • Host a family life conference or parenting classes for the community in your church.
  • Sponsor a marriage enrichment seminar for couples in your church or area.
  • Plan outings and recreational events especially designed to strengthen and encourage families.
  • Start small group Bible studies dealing with family and marriage issues.

MOBILIZING MEN FOR CHURCH LEADERSHIP

  • Organize work teams to assist the church trustees in regular building maintenance, repairs or remodeling.
  • Form usher/hospitality teams for your church.
  • Begin a "Pastor's Prayer Partner' team that meets weekly with the pastor to surround him or her with prayer support before each church service.
  • Adopt special fund raising projects to assist a special ministry or meet a special need in your congregation or community.
  • Offer a transportation service on Sundays for elderly church attendees, the physically impaired, or children from unchurched homes.

EXERCISING COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

  • Spearhead a ministry for the homeless, destitute or poor in your community.
  • Create a mobilization team to respond to community disasters or to assist fire or crime victims.
  • Recruit volunteers to assist local police in establishing neighborhood crime prevention programs.
  • Sponsor a recreation program for youth in your community using church facilities and volunteers.
  • Provide a camping program for developmentally disabled persons in your community.

BUILDING THE CHURCH AROUND THE WORLD

  • Recruit men from your church to form work teams to assist in construction projects for new Wesleyan churches in your district or area.
  • Raise funds to help men from your church participate in a district Wesleyan Men work team traveling outside North America to build ministry facilities.
  • Adopt a "mission field" suggested by Global Partners/Wesleyan World Missions and find ways to invest time and talents of men from your church in assisting church planting and church growth there.

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