BootCamps Go Global
BootCamp | Email This Post May 22nd, 2008I just got a note from Daniel McNaughton, planting pastor of Spring Valley Community Church in Royersford, Pennsylvania. He recently returned from leading a BootCamp in Zambia, Africa. You can read about it by clicking here. (The Zambia BootCamp posts were uploaded on April 21-24, 2008). This is not the first BootCamp in another country. Certified AG BootCamps have been held in Mexico, Scotland, South Africa and Romania. In April, two teams, one from Sweden and one from Germany attended the Potomac District BootCamp to investigate the possibility of adapting the BootCamp process for their countries. As a result, we are actively planning to assist our German friends in making the BootCamp a part of their process for facilitating new churches.
One myth about BootCamp is that it is a “training” event. That probably used to be the case, but not any longer. BootCamp is now a strategic “discovery” event built on an adult learning model that is dynamic and totally adaptable to absolutely any style or model of church. As a result, the BootCamp process is a “state of the art” tool for any church planter planting a church anywhere. If you haven’t already gone through the process, now is the time to do it. The price of BootCamp has never been lower. Check out the Church Multiplication Network website to find out more and view a schedule of upcoming BootCamps.
May 27th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Filipino American Christian Fellowship of the Assemblies of God is constantly in touch with our Home Country Church Planting Laboratory called S.O.S. Summer of Service wherein the whole church is involved in church planting. We have heard of our local movements here in US called Faith in Action where the whole congregation on sunday regular service would move out of there sanctuary to serve their community and reachout. An adaptation of models from USA and other countries where Booth Camps will go global will make our home front cutting edge sharper. Our tools and principles are working and multiplying but there could be more out there. To listen to Gen. Supt. of the AG in the Philippines about their Church Planting LAB
http://www.truveo.com/SOS-as-Church-Planting-Laboratory/id/1027624945
Still the Decade of Harvest roots and DNA exported from USA but now with local and national packaging MAKES IT HIGH BREED with ownership in the grassroot level. The Whole Congregation Planting another Congregation. LASTLY, there are one million Filipinos that are being exported around the world every year as Human Resource in maritime, nursing, caregiving, domestic helpers, engineers, doctors, etc. How many of them could be a potential Church Planter globally. An all Filipino Dream even if they did well and have settled became citizen of other foreign country, they still make America their considered future residential destimation.
As the season changes there a natural migration in the animal kingdom and especially birds and fowls that takes distances. Thinking about the Salmon that when it is time to multiply would move out of its comfort zone to birth an new generation of its own kind and DNA. Some currents has to challenged upstream some how. Jaren Lapasaran