Front Matters

16 • F RONT M ATTERS : P REREQUISITE R EADINGS FOR THE E VANGEL S CHOOL OF U RBAN C HURCH P LANTING

Source: Ripe for Harvest, pp. 11-22

terms than our earlier schools, we have maintained the same functions for the positions. Two terms need to be defined:

• In previous materials, the term used for the church planting supervisor or mentor to whom the team leader reported or received input from was called a Multiple Team Leader or MTL . Now, in this volume and in our schools, we refer to this role as Coach . All references to MTL or Multiple Team Leader in this volume or in Planting Churches among the City’s Poor should be understood now as Coach . • Also, in past schools we used the term Team Leader for the person in charge of the church plant team and church plant effort. Now, we refer to the person fulfilling this role as the Church Planter . In terms of language, then, please remember that when you engage materials in the Anthology that cite MTL or Multiple Team Leader , they now ought to be understood as equivalent terms to Coach , and, the designation Team Leader is equivalent now to the designation Church Planter . The second issue relates to the various uses and applications of Ripe for Harvest in the context of training and coaching church planters. Evangel Schools are offered around the world in conjunction with denominations, organizations, churches, and/or satellites of The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI). For a list of currently scheduled schools, please go to www.tumi.org/churchplanting . Coaches, mentors, and planters can use Ripe for Harvest for church plant training in several ways. To begin with, the normal mode of this guidebook’s use will be a planter and his/her team attending a locally sponsored Evangel School training session. The exercises are designed for planters and their teams to reflect on the devotionals, seminar teaching, and then answer the questions in open dialogue. This is done to give them opportunity to clarify their own unique strategies and approaches as they plan out their engagement in a community or a people group, to plant a church. Besides attending an Evangel School , a group of new church planters may decide to work through this book under the guidance of a church plant coach. Those using Ripe for Harvest in this way would be an example of a “Church Plant Cohort.” The cohort may be sponsored by a denomination, a church planting group, or an Urban Church Association (UCA).