Join the Initiative
Alan J. Avera, DMin Interim Executive Director
We invite your church to join the GO2 Initiative with ONA and World Witness. For ONA, Go2 aims to help churches become informed, engaged, and mobilized in support of church planting. A church can be The goal is to develop a grassroots movement for church planting where the majority of our congregations are involved in some
way. The grassroots movement would also see more and more church planters developed within our churches rather than being re- cruited from outside the ARP. Begin by recruiting an Advocate to be a communication link between the church and ONA and the church planting work in your presbytery. The responsibilities of the Advocate are to:
A - Advocate the need for church planting in the ARP and possible opportunities to be involved. R - Raise the home missions mindedness in the congregation by keeping the congregation informed and looking for opportunities to educate them.
P - Participate in a quarterly Zoom call with other Advocates. These quarterly meetings aim to help Advocates learn from one another, become more informed about what is happening with church planting in the presbyteries of the ARP, and discover best practices for how churches can support church planting in the ARP and in their presbytery.
Advocates can set their own goals based on their perception of what would be reasonable but faith-stretching goals for their
church’s involvement. Choose an Advocate from your church and send them to our inaugural Advocates Retreat, October 21-22, at Bonclarken.
At this 24-hour retreat, Advocates will: • develop relationships • learn new information • gain motivation
This is a combined retreat of ONA and World Witness Advocates. The retreat is an opportunity, not a requirement. Sign up and learn more
ona@arpsynod.org.
Pastor Groups: For Strengthening and Encouraging Over the past few years, Church Strengthening Coach Wayne Frazier has been working with groups of pastors and church vision
teams through the process of Framing the Future of Your Church and Ministry (FFCM). As a fellow minister, Wayne understands that pastor burnout can be a real struggle. The previous two years have been challenging to say the least, and our culture has become more openly hostile to the Gospel. How then do we effectively navigate this environment? Through FFCM, Wayne has seen pastors encourage each other with ideas and by praying for each other! Wayne is opening this opportunity to all pastors. Pastors, some of you may already be in groups who do this and this is not intended
monthly 1-hour Zoom meeting, followed by praying for one other pastor in the group throughout the month. During these monthly Zooms Wayne will provide resources and ideas. There will be a time for sharing and praying. As James 5:16 says, “Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” (ESV) Revival, which we desperately need in the USA and Canada, begins with
prayer. From 1949 to 1952, the most recent revival happened in the Scottish Islands (the Hebrides). People who are in their 80’s now tell of a great sense of their sinful brokenness and desperation that stirred Christians in a spirit of ne- cessity to agonize in prayer. They called it “travailing prayer,” from how Paul described his prayers for the Galatians “of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you” (4:19 KJV). Please contact
wayne@arpsynod.org and encourage some of your pastor friends to participate!
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