Overview

The Church Renewal Journey is a series of lay-Led, revival-type weekends that take the church on a biblical-based, spiritual journey to becoming on mission with God. Here are the steps of the Journey: 

• Awakening
• Equipping
• Commissioning
• Empowering
• Sending

Awakening> The Lay Renewal Weekend

The Lay Renewal Weekend is an opportunity to re-awaken the church to its purpose and passion. It takes believers, wherever they are in their spiritual journey, and refreshes them with a godly perspective of their role in service to others. This is an inward journey that renews and restores the love of Christ to those who have drifted away from their commitment. This weekend also brings the church body together as a family.

• "Therefore repent and turn back, that your sins may be wiped out so that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord" (Acts 3:19, HCSB).

Equipping> The Lay Ministry Weekend

The Lay Ministry Weekend equips churches by sharing how God has shaped each believer for ministry. Using the acrostic, SHAPE, this weekend teaches about Spiritual gifts, what God is continually saying to our Heart, and how our Abilities, Personality, and Experiences have uniquely prepared us for specific ministries. Many laypeople understand for the first time that they are just as called to ministry as their pastor. This weekend is preparation for the outward journey.

• "Based on the gift they have received, everyone should use it to serve others,...so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. 4:10-11, HCSB).

Commissioning> The Marketplace Evangelism Weekend

The Marketplace Evangelism Weekend encourages church members to prayerwalk their marketplace or school, asking God how He may want to work through them during the six days they are outside the church walls. Those who commit to God's calling are commissioned by their pastor and church body and sent back into their marketplace as commissioned missionaries from His church, to witness and minister in their unique giftedness.

• "Jesus said to them again, 'Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you'" (John 20:21, HCSB).

Empowering> The Prayer Weekend

The Prayer Weekend is about God's people returning to Him through fervent prayer toward personal holiness and the Great Commission. Participants will also be encouraged and trained in biblical prayer that focuses on kingdom priorities. Through prayer, God unleashes His church to be on mission with him in their world. The church as a body and it's individual members are empowered for whatever God has next for them.

• "He was praying in a certain place, and when He finished, one of His disciples said to Him, 'Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples'" (Luke 11:1, HCSB).

Sending> The Acts 1:8 Weekend

The Acts 1:8 Weekend leads the church to involve it's members in their Jerusalem (local & associational ministries); their Judea (their state convention ministries); their Samaria (national or NAMB ministries); and to the Ends of the Earth (international or IMB ministries). This weekend encourages churches to register as an Acts 1:8 Church, a process sponsored by NAMB and IMB which has 8 goals for the church to adopt and work toward.

• "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8, HCSB).

Visit www.churchrenewaljourney.net to register for a Renewal Weekend or to request an Overview.