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ENGAGE2020
"Igniting a Missional Movement."
ENGAGE2020 was developed by Dr. Rice Broocks as a strategy to equip and empower local Churches for growth through evangelism. It has been designed to particularly address the critical state of the North American Church where only 3% of Churches are growing through evangelism.
Rice has over 30 years of experience in evangelism and Church planting as well as an academic research degree from Fuller Theological Seminary. His focus has been on restoring the role of the Evangelist in the life of the local Church. This strategy has led to a multi-site Church in Nashville, Bethel World Outreach Church, where he serves as Senior Minister, as well as igniting a Church planting movement in 61 countries called Every Nation Ministries.
Evangelists within a local Church need to be identified and trained, preparing them to serve as equippers and motivators so that every believer can learn to be a witness. When this happens, the goal of becoming a missional Church can be more effectively achieved and sustained.
Research has shown this step of identifying and activating the Evangelists within a congregation to be virtually non-existent in the North American Church. Therefore a major goal of ENGAGE2020 is to raise up a new generation of Church-based Evangelists that help make the missional Church missional!
ENGAGE2020 involves 3 phases:
1) Engage Weekend - 6 hours of training with an experienced, Church-based Evangelist. In these on-site sessions, the core of the Church will be stirred to evangelize and make disciples; proven tools such as TheGodTest will be introduced to clarify and simplify this task; those with the gift of the Evangelist will be identified.
2) Equip - In phase 2, those that have the gift of the Evangelist, as well as those wanting to "do the work of the Evangelist", will be equipped to know how to function as a working part of a local Church. This takes place through a course that is currently offered live, and will be offered on this ENGAGE2020 website in the future.
3) Empower - Phase 3 offers coaching and consulting for those who are Evangelists as well as those involved in the disciple-making mandate. The goal is to sustain evangelistic fervor and activity by activating and utilizing Church-based Evangelists.
This strategy is named ENGAGE2020 because of the unprecedented opportunity to reactivate the missional DNA in the Church for what has been called the
"Decade of Evangelism".
"ENGAGE" calls the Church into this great opportunity to reach people with the Gospel.
"2020" focuses on the 10 year goal of this strategy to equip 2,020 Churches in North America by the year 2020.
To experience your own ENGAGE2020 weekend, contact us at: engage2020@gmail.com