See what one member has to say about the Start the ultimate relationship week.

 Naremburn Cammeray Anglican Church have kindly shared their plans for the 'Start the Ultimate Relationship' mission week.

Their attractive weekly program is grounds their team members in prayer and God's word. Each day begins with prayer and Bible study followed by a range of practical training.

Here's the planning time line that Annandale Community Church are using heading towards July and our August 'Start the Ultimate Relationship' week.

Feel free to download the spreadsheet showing significant dates between now and August and modify for your church. 

Concord Anglican have produced a Magazine helping their members get on board the Start the ultimate relationship mission.

This magazine can easily be modified by a printer or graphic designer to display the name of your church. The file is available in Adobe InDesign CD3 format.

www.concordanglican.org.au

The inner west is not big on teenagers, so we are running a little behind the eight ball here.  But we used 'Start the Ultimate Relationship' week to up the anti in our ministry to youth.

Sam reports: On the friday night, Crossfire had its first evangelistic night - "Ultimate Reality". It was part of Annandale Community Church's 'Start the Ultimate Relationship' week, and was a great night.

Here's how we planned what we did on our night:

One of the most important things is finishing well.  I suggest a group feedback and prayer time. 

These are just a few quick words about Carnivale, which we held in front of our church on Saturday. Dominic may write a bit more about it next week.

In life, you always have to play to your strengths. One of the "strengths" our church has it's situation at the intersection of the two most important streets in Annandale. We have absolutely perfect location. How to exploit this?

These are just a few quick words about Carnivale, which we held in front of our church on Saturday. Dominic may write a bit more about it next week.

In life, you always have to play to your strengths. One of the "strengths" our church has is its situation at the intersection of the two most important streets in Annandale. We have absolutely perfect location. How to exploit this?

When we were writing Introducing God a media student said to me: 'My friends don't care if it's true or not, they want to know what difference it will make.'

In planning mission the two goals in tension are 'training the team' vs 'getting the job done.'  My view is that we will have more impact for Christ in the long run if in planning and organising mission we put training ahead of getting the job done. 

Here are a series of answers to common questions taken from Dominic Steele's Introducing God book.  We use these answers in mission training because we are not sure about the copyright on other prepared answers.  We are giving the book away to people on mission.  You can order boxes of it here.

When people get back from door knocking and conversation stall they arrive back in dribs and drabs.  It's great to strike when the irons hot and do feedback immediatly.  We start the feedback when the first people arrive.  

The organiser people always want to do it in small groups etc, but I always like to do it all in one big group so that I can have input into coaching how to do the conversations better. 

The Conversation Stall Menus that we've used in the past went like this: 

• Does God exist and can we have relationship?
• What is the meaning of life?
• Does the world need saving?

Our Film Festival is a very 'first date' night.  A night where people can come in the door of our building, feel safe and have a fun time.  We will show a promo video for our Introducing God course and Matt and Ben who will host the evening are film fans.

An aim for the evening is 'make a little ground.'

We’ve just finished our first team meeting.  There are 35-40 full time attenders for the four days of mission plus about the same number again of part timers. The team time is a key time for establishing the values of mission – and flowing from mission, the next year for church.