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Epoch: Living as a Missionary in Your Community (PDF)
Participant's Guide
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Epoch: Implementation Guide for the Local Church (PDF)
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Epoch is a process, which empowers everyday Christ-followers to live as missionaries in their community, seeking to make disciples and establish relationship-based faith communities.
Preparing for Epoch
Contextualized Versions of Epoch
Recommended Resources for Implementation
Preparing for Epoch
Epoch Implementation Guide for the Church is designed to be a practical resource which will aid Christian leaders in implementing the Epoch strategy through a local church. The guide includes specific suggestions for events and activities, suggested structures for implementation and a general introduction to coaching with specific guidelines for coaching the individual Epoch components. Also included is a look at Epoch in Paul’s ministry and eight foundational articles relating biblical principles to the Epoch strategy.
Epoch Introduction PowerPoint helps introduce the need Epoch for and the concepts of the Epoch process. It is a great tool for facilitators who are presenting Epoch to a group of missionaries, pastors, and/or everyday Christ followers.
Live With Urgency Video is a man-on-the-street segment that shows the reality that there are those seeking the Savior and those who have found Him and know it is their task to share Him with others. It includes a challenge from Dr. Geoff Hammond, President of the North American Mission Board, to see your community as a mission field. To download high-resolution versions of this video for presentation, RIGHT-click on the links below and select "Save Target As," "Save Link As" or "Download Linked File." Video is available in MPEG-1 or MPEG-4 format. MPEG-4 (h.264) files are recommended when available because they are better quality and file sizes are smaller. MPEG-1 files have larger file sizes, but are most compatible with a broader range of software.
Live with Urgency - MPEG -1 | MPEG -4
Living as a Missionary Workbook Teacher Edition and Student Edition is one way of introducing the concepts of Epoch. Participants are led through a discovery phase which then could fuel Epoch training events. The goal is to help participants see that North America is a mission field and to discover principles in Scripture that define ways to minister in a mission field.
Intersect Culture videos capture the stories of ordinary believers on a journey of faith, doing extraordinary things. The video/curriculum set was designed for use in small groups to help them to see people's needs in a new way, understand their calling, and learn how their faith can shape culture.
Pursuing the Mission of God in Church Planting with companion discussion guide is a great resource to help your church leaders get a handle on the mission of God and the changing context in which we serve. Ten churches are highlighted to help church members see how a missional church serves their community.
Paul on Leadership is a six-week study from Lifeway Christian resources that helps us understand the issues we will face as we transition our churches and see the need for mission outposts who release the laity into their community.
The Shaping of Things to Come offers its readers reasons why the local church needs to recalibrate itself if it wants to be effective in a post-Christian society.
The Ministry of the Missional Church moves us beyond methods and techniques that create or sustain church growth to a place where these occur naturally as we focus on the leading of the Holy Spirit in our lives and churches.
TransPlant is designed to ignite a passion in college students for the unchurched in North America. Maybe they feel called to ministry, have a heart for missions, or want to make a difference through their chosen career path. Church plants need missions-minded teams to integrate into America’s communities and cultivate places of worship and transformation.
Calling out the Called is an event and a process that consists of six essential components. These components empower believers to hear and respond to God's call to be on mission in their communities by starting new churches.
Coaching 101 is an introduction that helps its reader to discover the power of coaching. This book gives foundational principles and practical suggestions for those interested in getting started with coaching.
Leadership Coaching offers its readers an extensive study and application of the disciplines and skills of the Christian coach. Exercises are included in each chapter and practical examples aid in understanding.
Contextualized Versions of Epoch
Collegiate
Collegiate Epoch PowerPoint
Cowboy
Multihousing
Colorado Multihousing Video
Epoch Multihousing M-Pact
Epoch Multihousing M-Pact Review
Native American
Native American Article: The Emerging Epoch Among Native Americans
Chinese
Recommended Resources
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