Vision 116 Missions Conference Starter Packet
“For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes...� Romans 1:16
Contents What is the Vision116 Conference?.......................3 What is the Purpose of this packet?.......................4 Inquiry.................................................................5 what needs to be asked Preparation..........................................................6 what needs to be decided Implementation....................................................8 what needs to be done Resources.............................................................9 helps
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What is Vision116? 2 days - Friday night, and all day Saturday (potentially Sunday morning) 4 Rallies (Talk, Worship, Testimony, Video) 1) God’s Work - Gospel powered missions 2) God’s Word - command, not a call 3) God’s World - CCP share time 4) God’s Way - Men are his Method 1 Catered Dinner w/ 1O Mission Agencies - 5 minute vision snapshots Wycliffe Campus Outreach International ELIC Local Church Avant To Every Tribe Pioneers Operation Mobilization.. Frontiers Reach Global 4 Breakout Seminars 1) Perspectives on the World Christian Movement Primer 2) The World in our Backyard - Local Missions 3) God’s will for your life 4) Next Steps - Applications
4 Student Testimonies 2 Student-Facilitated Prayer times Numerous Giveaways/Resources/Exhibits Vision116
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The Vision116 Starter Packet exists to resource CO region’s in designing, developing, and implementing a college mission’s conference in conjunction with their hub church’s missions week (or independent of it in case the hub church does not currently promote such a week). The Vision116 conference aims to serve as a vehicle to motivate and mobilze college students for the task of world evangelization.
Why? To develop... awareness of the unreached and unengaged lost world convictions steeped in biblical truth for God’s global mission action into the most mobile missionary force on the planet partnership in mobilization with our hub churches
How? through... 1) Inquiry - asking the right questions to evaluate your region’s need and/or best use for such a conference 2) Preparation - creating a conference to serve you in “Building laborers on the campus for the lost world.” 3) Implementation (day of) - hosting a conference with maximum output and effectiveness requires a logistical checklist 4) Resources - lists, examples, contact information, ideas to fuel your own missions conference Vision116
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Inquiry Glorifying God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world • Are our students showing an awareness for, conviction of, and action towards world evangelization? • Are our campuses mobilizing short, mid, or long term missionaries upon graduation? • Are our staff showing an awareness for, conviction of, and a discipleship driven by world evangelization? • Are our dgroups, campus prayer, summer projects, Christmas Conferences, CCP exposure or weekly meetings showing evidence of burden for the nations? • What are we doing right now to intentionally and explicitly fulfill the “for the lost world” value of our vision? • Does our hub church have a vision and value of international missions? Do they have a missional vehicle or venue we could utilize or piggy back off of? • What do we want to do more of, less of, or possibly change to help us more effectively fulfill our mission statement? • Could an entryway missions event act as a catalyst to help us equip and export laborers into the foreign missions field? • Do our campus calendars have availability and our staff have the capacity to pull off a collegiate missions conference? Vision116
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Preparation 12-step plan • Goals - what are you hoping to accomplish? - dgroup, campus, area, or region level - staff level
• Dates - when do you want to execute it? - Fall term? or Spring term? or during church missions week? - Is there a follow-up option soon afterwards that can be leveraged (Perspectives?)
• Venue - where is a fitting meeting space? - Your hub church - place for central meeting space and breakout rooms - is there catering or food prep space for snack or meals
• Schedule - what will the conference include? - Testimonies, main rallies, breakouts, prayer times, meals, videos, giveaways, book table, worship, mission agency profiles... - How long will your conference last? - Weekend
• Speakers - who can speak for us? - region staff level, church level, CO wide level, missionaries - other partnering ministries, Traveling Team, Perspectives instructors
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• Resources - what do we want to make available? - gift bag option for registrants - books, CD’s, DVD’s, maps, bumper stickers, People group cards - conference booklets, videos, powerpoint
• Cost - what should we charge? - Cover our costs - Raise money for a cause? Support a missionary? - Will they pay online, check, at the door?
• Decor -
people group posters world flags projector images slideshows before meetings
• Delegation - who will do what? - Buckstoppers? - campus staff level, mobilization director, resource team, - Traveing Team, Nvision seminar, other CO region
• Recruitment - what is our target? - online, meetings, facebook page, face to face - anyone interested in or outside of our ministry, city-wide?
• Partnership - who can we profile or colloborate with? - local church - mission agencies
• Follow-up - what can we do to reinforce this? - droup level, 1on1 level, mobilization level - Perspectives on the World Christian movement class - Application Vision116
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(Day of) Implementation Logistics
Emcees prepped for meeting/rally flow LAVA set and ready (Lights, Audio, Video, Action) Food delivered and warmed Decorations in place (flags, posters, signs, projector images) Sign-up, Registration, and gift bag tables manned - table signs are taped to tables - Computer and cash tray ready - tickets are handed out as meal stubs - name tags are printed Resource Tables manned - resources unpacked and displayed Mission agencies received and directed - tables are set up with table cloths and agency sign taped up - they are given a line-up sheet that shows their talk order Schedules printed for staff team, mission agencies, and speakers Speaker gifts purchased Stations set up: - “Adopt a country� world map station set up - Claim a Bibleless people from Wycliffe - adopt a child (Compassion, World Vision) - write a missionary (letter, address, and postage) Prayer room prepped and facilitator content printed Receipts collected from purchases Worship Band prepped and sound tested
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Resources
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Conference Pole Cycle January - March Define Aims Set Dates Reserve Spaces Brainstorm speakers
April - June Network contacts Initial communication with mission agencies Invitation letter to speakers and confirm coordinate and integrate vision with local church
July - September Recruitment Strategy - profile STP Confirm missions agencies Delegate staff responsibilities (12-step plan) Make sign-up available online (Aug. 1st) Set Conference schedule
July - September Evaluate and follow-up Convos Vision116
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Example Schedule Friday 5pm – booths set up and resource table up – Hallways & Gym – D505 6pm – catered dinner – Gym – D505 7pm – 1st session (God’s Work) – Andrew Knight – Chapel – D502 9pm – Booths and prayer room opened
Saturday 9am – Booths and Prayer Map room open – Gym D505 & Prayer Map Room 10am – 2nd Session (CCP Update) – CCP Team – Chapel – D502 11:30am – 3rd Session (God’s World) – Bryan Padgett – Chapel – D502 12:30-2pm – break for lunch (optional seminar) 3-5pm – Breakout seminars – C400, C402, D502, Prayer Room 7pm – 4th Session (God’s Words and Ways) – John Piper – Chapel D505
Sunday 10am – Missionary share for College Connection – Tom Jones/Johnson’s – Gym/53 11am – Worship Service on Missions at BBC – John Piper – Sanctuary
Seminars 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)
What Now? – Applications for Next Steps – Bryan Padgett Perspectives of the World Christian Movement Class Primer – Andrew Knight Sent to the Cities – Jared Wass Discerning God’s Will – Matt Reagan The future of Campus Outreach Minneapolis – Paul Poteat
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Speaker Invite Form Vision116 Conference “Other sheep” October 21-22, 2011 Bethlehem Baptist Church – North Campus 5151 Program Avenue Mounds View, MN 55112
“For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes…” ~ Romans 1:16
Bryan,
I wanted to formally invite you to our 2nd annual Vision116 Missions Conference during the third weekend in October. We are asking God to rally students around this year’s theme of “other sheep” in response to Jesus’ stated and sacrificial mission. This year’s theme will rest under the annual umbrella “Romans 1:16” gospel-theme. We want to be explicit that our hope for the ingathering of other sheep is founded solely in the power of the gospel message. Our mission’s success is in the sufficiency and strength of the gospel message. May our Father use this weekend to inform college students of the need in our world, influence them with a gospel vision of possibility, and involve them in a myriad of gospel and global-giving applications. We would be thrilled to have you join us in two ways. First, we would love to have you join us and expose our students to Avant and its vision of church planting among the least reached peoples by having ministry information available. Please plan on having a 6’ x 3’ table to display your information as we would to have your values shape those in attendance. Also, if possible, think for a 2-3 minute video that could profile Avant’s vision and values that we might be able to show during one of the main rallies. Second, I would love for you to influence our attendants through your words and passion in teaching. Would you prayerfully consider unpacking for us who Christ meant when he said, “I have other sheep that are not of this fold.” This is the “World” talk (session 2) and we are asking you to open our eyes to the unreached, cultures, nations, least-reached, lost, peoplegroups, and religions in our world. I want our students to come away with an informed perspective when it comes to how many, where, and who these “other sheep” are. Furthermore, I would ask you to consider giving an optional seminar talk on Saturday afternoon explaining what I am calling “What Now? – Applications for Next Steps.” Blow us away with a myriad of options and opportunities to connect our heads and hearts to our hands. Feel free to use videos, visuals, props, maps, testimonies, and printouts. I want our students to come away with information about it, inspiration to change it, and finally to be involved in it practically. Look over the schedule below and let me know as you have time to reflect and pray,
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Agency Invite Form Vision116 Conference “Other sheep” October 21-22, 2011 Bethlehem Baptist Church – North Campus 5151 Program Avenue Mounds View, MN 55112
“For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes…” ~ Romans 1:16 Frontiers (or name), I wanted to formally invite you to our 2nd annual Vision116 Missions Conference during the third weekend in October. We are asking God to rally students around this year’s theme of “other sheep” in response to Jesus’ stated and sacrificial mission. This year’s theme will rest under the annual umbrella “Romans 1:16” gospel-theme. We want to be explicit that our hope for the ingathering of other sheep is founded solely in the power of the gospel message. Furthermore, our mission’s success is in the sufficiency and strength of the gospel message. May our Father use this weekend to inform college students of the need in our world, influence them with a gospel vision of possibility, and involve them in a myriad of gospel and global-giving applications. We would be thrilled to have you join us in two ways. First, we would love to have you join us and expose our students to your missions opportunities by having ministry information available. Please plan on having a 6’ x 3’ table to display your information as we would love to have your vision and values shape those in attendance. Also, if possible, think for a 2-3 presentation for Friday night during the meal to acquaint our students with your missions vision, strategy, and methodology. We want them to hear from you at the very beginning of the conference and give you a forum to expose them to your distinct vision and values. Please let us know if you can send a representative and if you will be in attendance. You can see the schedule below and please let us know if there are additional ways we can serve you. Look over the schedule below and let me know as you have time to reflect and pray,
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Recruitment Poster
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Names and Numbers Speakers ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦
Everyethne.org Perspectives.org Instructors CO Staff Thetravelingteam.org (great 4 talk package) Local Church Missionaries
Gift Bag Options, Articles, Resources ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦
IMB.org - maps and plenty of resources Joshuaproject.net - print off people group cards Operationworld.org Freedomplasticbags.com (for printed bags) DesiringGod.org (for donations and giveaways) Stickerjunkie.com for bumper stickers Wycliffe.org for Bibleless people cards Thetravelingteam.org for articles, and books everyethne.org for Xplore booklets Missionsfrontier.org for magazines
Missions Agency Contacts - you can reference our conference and they can connect you with appropirate regional representative ✦ ✦
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OMF: Jon Stream 612.309.7240 jstream@omf.org PIONEERS: Jillian Groeneveld jgroeneveld@orlandoteam.com Ekren Miller ekrenmiller@swissmail.org FRONTIERS: David Nelson David.Nelson@gracetogo.org 612-599-1370 AFRICA INLAND MISSION: Warren Day warren.day@aimint.net TO EVERY TRIBE: Rod Conner rod@toeverytribe.com 570-238-5303 WYCLIFFE: Morris and Wendy Johnson wendy_johnson@wycliffe.org DESIRINGGOD: David Clifford david.clifford@desiringGod.org
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What Next?
How to leverage the conference
✓ Consider profiling and funneling students into the 15 week Perspectives on the World Christian Movement Class ✓ Consider adding a Missions seminar to your Christmas or New Year’s Conference ✓ Brainstorm ideas of how dgroups and campuses can graft convictions formed into the annual ministry flow ✓ Add a Summer Beach Project seminar, talk, bible study, global prayer time, or dedicated resource or event that specifically profiles these opportunities and continues to build awareness ✓ Consider gathering missions interested students twice a term to further cultivate and discern missions calling. ✓ Add dedicated times to profile the CCP outside the Summer Project. ✓ Create and cultivate a weekly prayer time for the Nations on campus ✓ Strategically pursue international student ministry
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http://vision116.com The Vision116 website includes a conference link with: pdf. conference booklet examples Attendee Application page - Next Steps .mp3 conference talks from past 2 years Videos Articles Printable or Orderable resources powerpoints iphone apps
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Vision 116 conference is geared towards informing college students of the need in our world, influencing them with a Romans 1:16 vision, and involving them NOW with practical applications that demand a response.
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