NHA County Development
In
keeping with the mission of the Alliance to encourage united prayer for revival and to foster relationships among pastors and ministry leaders of New Hampshire, we have made "The New Hampshire Challenge" a key strategy as we move forward. Its success will rise and fall on all of our ability to develop at a county level. We recommend the following points be embraced:
1. Have a regional facilitator with the following qualities to oversee the process.
• Be free from personal kingdom building and see the vision of the greater good in churches working together.
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Have a good standing among leaders and understand the various kinds of
churches and their histories so as to reach out to all of them equally.
• Be humble and not defensive.
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Have time available to invest into the county. The
work load is great; little will be accomplished without a regional
facilitator “beating the bushes”, making phone
calls, setting up meeting times & doing necessary follow up.
• The facilitator is the key and county response will rise or fall based on their initiative.
2. Identify all the Pastors Prayer Groups that are already meeting within the county. This becomes the easiest platform from which to start announcing the vision of the Alliance.
• Divide the county according to already established Pastors’ prayer groups; usually a county is too large a geographical area to network in a realistic way. Pastors Prayer Groups are the key from which all ministry flows. State, county and regional borders should be held to lightly as relationships will overlap those boundaries.
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The regional facilitator should request a time to share the vision with
an established group and then from that group see if there is interest
to schedule another meeting to invite all the area Pastors and begin
planning the prayer event.
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The facilitator should compose a letter and send mailings to every
church in that area, as well as use e-mail and the New Hampshire
Alliance website.
• Word of mouth invitations from pastor to pastor are still one of the best means of communication. Identify the key leader in a regional prayer group and allow that person to become the main contact person for that group.
3. When presenting the vision for "Fifth Fridays" to a Pastors Group:
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The meeting place should be warm, accommodating with refreshments
available. Proper introductions should be made.
• The vision must be shared clearly and questions answered.
• The desire to move ahead should come from the consensus of the Pastors Group; they should take ownership of it - the Alliance is only there as a support.
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If there is a consensus for a prayer event, a date should be set and a
host church identified. The New Hampshire Alliance
“Recommended Prayer Agenda” should be shared and
used as a guide for the scheduled prayer meeting.
• All mailings and advertising should be offered by the Alliance. Continual follow-up and support should be offered.
4. Afterwards...
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The group should evaluate all positives and negatives of the event,
make necessary adjustments and begin to look forward to scheduling the
next one.
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Sharing with the area Pastor Groups what is happening elsewhere in the
county keeps the county linked together and allows everyone to see the
larger picture of what God is doing in the county as well as in the
State.
We must be persistent. If we knock, it will be opened, if we ask, we shall receive.
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