“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations….” Matthew 28:19

1. “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations….” Matthew 28:19

2. “For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.” James 2:26 Celebrate Jesus Embra Jackson, Presenter Administrative Assistant to the Bishop

3. Celebrate Jesus Evangelistic Missions “Helping the local church get out into its neighborhood” http://www.cjmission.org/

4. This PowerPoint about Celebrate Jesus seeks to: • Answer questions about Celebrate Jesus missions • Celebrate Jesus missions is represented in and through prayer • Celebrate Jesus mission is an Ongoing journey • Celebrate Jesus mission is a Process birthed and led by Holy Spirit “Manifestation of the Holy Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all.” 1 Corinthians 12:7

5. Contact Information Celebrate Jesus Inc. P.O. Box 3386 Orlando, Florida 32802-3386 Phone: (407) 893-7305 Fax: (407) 893-73 Kathy Furlong, Executive Director Phone: (386) 748-5421 Email: kathy@cjmission.org Martha Gay Duncan Phone: (863) 559-0953 Email: marthagay@cjmission.org Marilyn Coppenhaver, Administrative Assistant Phone: (407) 893-7305 Email: celebrate.jesus@cjmission.org

6. Celebrate Jesus Vision Statement Awaken Passion and Equip People To Share the Gospel And Reach Neighbors

7. Celebrate Jesus goal is to share: • Celebrate Jesus Mission • History of Celebrate Jesus • The Celebrate Jesus Dynamic power • Who can Come on Mission • How to Host a Mission • What preparations need to be made prior to a mission being held • Statement of Faith

8. What is a Celebrate Jesus Mission? The local church is the hope of the world (As expressed at the 2006 Willow Creek Leadership Summit by Hill Hybels). Through the local church the hands of Jesus actively reach out and his feet walk into the neighborhoods to reach the lost and hurting of this world.

9. Through a Celebrate Jesus mission your church can be intentional about reaching out into your neighborhood. At first this may seem daunting, but as you go into your community and meet your neighbors, God will honor your obedience and will assist and strengthen you. Philippians 4:13

10. The Key Objectives of Celebrate Jesus Mission • Reach the Lost • Equip Emerging Evangelists • Provide A Apostolic Model of Outreach Ministry

11. Celebrate Jesus models the belief that People must be connected both to Jesus AND to the Local church.

12. Celebrate Jesus sends a mission team to your church to walk alongside your members in this outreach effort. Celebrate Jesus works with your church to assist, guide and suggest ways to: • Pray about your mission • To host your team • To visit your neighborhoods • To prepare for a block party at the end of the mission week • To follow through with the neighbors you meet during the mission.

13. The mission team and your members will ask for prayer requests every time they go out; our experience is that people are very willing to receive prayer.

14. History of Celebrate Jesus • Started in 1994 by Reverend Dr. Rob Frost, National Evangelist for the Methodist Church in England • Started a process of planning a local church-based mission using a team of 60 Christians in churches around North London. • Project was called “Share Jesus.” • Selected as a model Mission in Orlando in 1998. • 8 churches participated to evaluate the tool’s effectiveness • Since 2000, Celebrate Jesus has overseen 19 separate missions in regions around Florida and has cooperatively worked with United Methodist Volunteers in Mission on a mission in Honduras.

15. Over 200 churches from many diverse denominations (United Methodist, Lutheran, Catholic, Missionary Baptist, Evangelical Covenant, Assembly of God and non-denominational churches) have partnered with mission teams to evangelize their communities and well over 2,000 people have participated as missionaries. • Non-profit 501(c)3 organization, accountable to a Board of Directors made up of Christian leaders from a variety of backgrounds. • Celebrate Jesus, Inc. is overseen by Mrs. Kathy Furlong, Executive Director, and receives its funding from love offerings from individuals and churches, grants, and fees from applicants and Host Churches.

16. The Celebrate Jesus Mission Process • Participate as a team member in a mission (July 17-24, 2010, Orlando, FL • Return home and being a year long process of prayer and planning to become a host church • Host a mission in your community

17. The Celebrate Jesus Mission Dynamic • A Celebrate Jesus Mission team is made up of 7 to 15 Christians of ordinary skills and of all ages, living in community for a week. • The team partners with a Host Church and together they work to fulfill simple, yet powerful objectives, in servant evangelism.

18. Mission Team • The team’s purpose is to share Jesus with people and help the local church where they have been assigned to fulfill the plans they made to reach their neighbors of Jesus. • These ordinary groups of people, by their boldness of faith and reliance on prayer, are used by God to accomplish extraordinary results. • The team focuses on a particular local church, and as a result an entire geographic area is benefited by the mission. • The broader partnership brings an intensity of prayer and enthusiasm that energizes participants in real Kingdom work. • Teams share the sense of God doing something in the mission, in their own lives, and beyond.

20. Process of How a Church Hosts a Celebrate Jesus Mission • Missionaries (Team Members)Each church will have a Celebrate Jesus team partnering with them. Each team has two people in leadership positions: the Team Leader (the evangelist) and the Team Pastor (the nurturer) neither of which needs to be clergy, who work with their host church for several months of preparation before Mission. They help provide “on-the-job training” to the visiting team. The team working with the church will evangelize and develop relationships.

21. Host ChurchesA year-long process of prayer and planning culminates in a week of reaching communities around churches who partner with us. These partnering churches, called Host Churches, pray for the revelation of who in their neighborhoods they should reach. • The Host church prays continually for her neighbors, seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit to prepare hearts for the receiving of God’s love. • The Host Church will host team members who will join them for the week of mission. • The Host Church prays and plans for ways to follow up on contacts made in the neighborhood.

22. Who Can Come On Mission? (These are those who are invited to Orlando July 17-24, 2010) All Christians are welcome! To witness faith to others, one must have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Three Categories of Teams:

23. What Preparations Need to be Made Prior to Mission? • PRAY, PRAY, PRAY HOST CHURCH: • Form a Leadership Team comprised of persons with a desire to reach out into the community (Host Pastor, a Key Leader and Coordinators for Prayer, Hospitality, Follow-Through, Visitation and Block Party). • Obtain a Covenant from our office and return the completed form with your Covenant fee of $300. HOST PASTOR: • Disciple and encourage church family to love and care for the community. • Teach and preach series on loving and serving neighbors

24. KEY LEADER: • Recruit and encourage coordinators; schedule regular meetings together for prayer and planning. • Encourage coordinators and church members to attend Celebrate Jesus workshops and the monthly prayer gathering with other host churches • Encourage a Hospitality Coordinator to teach and model hospitality. • Offer opportunities for volunteers to help with good, provide rooms for sleeping, homes for showers. • Meet with Coordinators, Pastor and Church Treasurer to budget for the mission. • Make your church attractive and invitational outside and inside. • SPREAD THE WORD THAT THE CHURCH FAMILY GOES OUT WITH THE VISITING TEAM EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK. • Plan a church-wide activity either on Saturday evening or Sunday after church during mission week to get to know the visiting team and have prayer time together.

25. Measurable/Achievable Goals for Mission Week After your leadership team has prepared your planning tool answers, the Celebrate Jesus staff will schedule a consultation with your leadership team and pastor. This meeting usually takes place in February or March of the mission year. You will be provided a form at your consultation to state three (3) Measurable/Achievable Goals for your Celebrate Jesus Mission. These goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-limited. You will need to pray through your goals; then determine (1) what preparations will need to be done before mission week, (2) activities that can be accomplished during mission week, and (3) follow-through activities after mission week is over.

26. Sample Schedule of Measurable/Achievable Goals • Over 700 door-to-door contacts in the immediate church neighborhood • Build relationships between the church and the community • Increase in Youth Ministry

27. Missions can bring New Perspective • Youth Ministry • Children’s ministry • Small groups • Prayer • Healing ministry • In becoming individually invitational • In becoming an invitational church • Focusing on the needs of the community (i.e., language classes, recovery support groups…)

29. Celebrate Jesus, Inc. Statement of Faith

30. Celebrate Jesus Statement of Faith We believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth; and in Just Christ His only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified; dead and buried, the third day He rose from the dead; He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from there He shall come to judge the living and the dead. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.

31. Afteryou have been on a “Celebrate Jesus Mission” you will see ministry and people through different eyes.