Church PLANT Manual

Team Exercises: Prepare • 29

Exercise 1 Establishing Context 1

Your team will need to understand its context, the target community, and the challenges the selected context might present.

Instructions Discuss the following questions and document your answers. Be specific. 1. What are your target communities? 2. What do you know about those communities (demographic information)? 3. What do you need to learn about those communities? 4. What ethnic or people group(s) will you target, and why? 5. What will distinguish you from other churches? 6. What will your expression 2 of the church look like? 7. With what network, denomination, or association will your church be affiliated? Other Charting Your Course Questions a. Do you have church bylaws, and statement of faith in place? If not, how will you develop them internally?

1 Adapted from an Evangel School exercise in Ripe for Harvest , pp. 79−92. 2 For a discussion of the various church expressions see Ripe for Harvest , pp. 87–92.