Missio Intensive - Fall 2010

Missio Intensive

Two Training & Coaching Tracks

Zer0 Description

When the Missio team considered the great need for equipping teams and leaders to reach the vast number of people completely disconnected from Church Sub-Cultures, we needed a term that described looking at the harvest with fresh eyes. Zer0 implies starting at the beginning, as if on the threshold of a door that has just swung open. The basis for our purpose: “Creating Church Where It Doesn’t Exist”

How is a missional church planting model different from other models that have been used in the past?The primary difference is where we start:  As a missionary we follow three primary stages of creating church: Engaging Culture, Uniting Saint and Sojourner into Community, and then structuring communities into congregation.   We don’t start with a large group of church attenders, we start with a small band of missionaries. 

MORPH

We believe people and churches can be re-oriented back towards mission. They must if the church in North America is to regain a place of influence.  We’ve worked with both mega-church, traditional church, contemporary church, and house churches to accomplish this re-orientation.   Although the processes may be more difficult in existing structures, the change at a heart and habit level is not only possible, but expected. We begin by assuming each church has a structured congregation with a corporate gathering that is functioning well, but is looking to expand the focus on incarnational communities – a key to engage culture. Our goal is that every church walks away from the 2-day intensive with a 6 month plan to remove strategic barriers and expand the missional impetus of the church.