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A 1 0 -Y E A R MOV EMEN T AT W E STWOOD.

“...I will multiply your descendants beyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore...

G E N E S I S 2 2:1 5- 17A, 18

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M ULT IP LY IN G F O L LOWER S OF J E S US , HE A R , N EAR & FAR WESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH

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Church historians believe that in AD 100 there were as few as 25,000 followers of Jesus.

Yet by AD 310 there were 20,000,000, an astonishing rate of growth rarely seen in the 17 centuries since. A more recent and similarly remarkable experience happened in China when Mao Tse-tung sought to remove all trace of religion from Chinese society. All Western missionaries and ministers were forced to leave, Chinese church leaders were imprisoned or killed, and church property was nationalized.

Rather than declining, the underground church flourished-- growing from 2,000,000 followers of Christ to 60,000,000 after the Cultural Revolution ended!

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The Methodist movement in early American history is a similar “Kaboom” movement of God as church historian Alan Hirsch has come to call these periods of exponential expansion of the Gospel.

What do these “Kaboom” movements have in common? They invited people to make Jesus the Lord of their lives, they grew these new Christians up in faith, and they released them to invite more people into a relationship with Christ; 1 follower became two, then four, then eight and exponential growth occurred.

While there are places in the world today where Christianity is spreading rapidly, it is on the decline in much of Europe and North America.

Believing that Jesus is the answer to present and eternal human needs in all ages and in all places, Westwood is joining thousands of churches across the country with a renewed focus on multiplying; boldly inviting people into a relationship with Jesus Christ, patiently growing them up in their faith, and creating new church settings where this process can be repeated. While spreading Jesus’s love to people has always been our purpose and mission we are embracing the concept of exponential multiplication; developing disciples that develop disciples, and creating church environments that create church environments.

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LO RE M IPSU M DO LOR SI T AM ET, CO NSE CT E T U R A DIP I SCI N G ELI T.

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MULTIPLYING DISCIPLES

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Discipleship Pathway

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Make disciples, churches follow!

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Here, Near and Far

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In 1995, Westwood Community Church came into being, meeting in the unconventional but familiar location of the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre. Westwood was started as an effort by Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie to reach into surrounding communities; Westwood was the third of what would become 8

Multiplying is in our DNA! Wooddale daughter churches in the Twin Cities.

Westwood has carried on that church planting tradition, starting Emmaus Road Church in our tenth year and Westbrook Community Church in our 15th year. In 2016 we changed strategies slightly by launching a multisite campus in Minnetonka. Our 10-year vision includes major multisite campus

launches every other year; one more to the east of our Chanhassen campus and three regions west of us.

We’ll multiply environments where people can respond to God’s love and grow in their relationship with Him. We’ll take the church to where people live and work and where their children go to school. And we’ll invite them to join us in being the hands and feet of Jesus to bless the community in which they live. These multisite campuses will develop disciples and leaders; some of which will help launch the next site, which

Even as we’re adding Westwood campuses in our region of the Twin Cities, we’ll also help start independent churches for the nearly 1,000,000 immigrant and ethnic people in the Twin Cities, a significantly under-churched population. See page __

We’ll join in exciting church planting work that is being done in the 41% of the world that still doesn’t have access to the Gospel. See page __

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STORY 1 .

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TH E POWER OF N E W Believing that God is “doing a new thing� through the multisite church movement of the last couple of decades, Westwood Community Church has adjusted both our master plan and our ministry model.

The Westwood master plan had called for building a 2,000-seat worship center on our Chanhassen campus but, at this time, church leadership believes it is both more impactful, and is better stewardship, to expand into adjoining communities with campuses, rather than developing one site that draws people from ever-greater distances. Our staffing and ministry model is being adjusted to support as network of regional campuses.

There are compelling reasons to launch additional campuses:

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More Engagement

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More Growth

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Less Cost

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HE RE / NE AR / FAR

Launch Welcoming Multisites PG 1 8

Ethnically Diverse City Churches PG 20

Expand Global Plants PG 22

W E STA ND IN AW E O F W HAT GOD H AS DON E A ND W E AS K GO D TO DO I T AGAI N …

We do that through our ministries to children, students and families, through our Preschool, through the generosity of the Westwood community and through

Westwood is committed to extending the love of Jesus to the communities where God has placed us.

strategic partnerships like Love in the Name of Christ (Eastern Carver County), a partnership of local churches that links Christian volunteers and ministries to help people in need.

Through our Open Hands Foundation we opened the first homeless shelter for teens in Carver County, providing badly-needed shelter, counseling and support for hundreds of teens each year.

The Foundation is now exploring additional unmet community needs we can help resource.

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Believing that strong communities contain vital churches, through multisite campuses we are reaching into the communities around us bringing the gospel of hope!

The Need

PROPOSE D CA M PUS L AU NCH T I M E LI NE

2016

Minnetonka campus launched

On average, less than 30% of people in the Twin Cities attend a church On average, a church a week closes its doors in Minnesota

2018

Westwood campuses will: [ 01 ] Replicate the blessings God has given Westwood; offer-

Bloomington/ Edina Area

Most communities need 2-3 times more churches to reach their populations

Multisites Launch stronger, grow faster than church plants.

Eden Prairie/

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Carver/ Victoria Area

Mound/ Minnetrista/ St. Bonifacious Area

ing new congregations a welcoming environment, strong preaching and worship, dynamic childrens and student programs, and central vision and leadership [ 02 ] Take Westwood to communities where we are known,

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Waconia Area Campus

where people live and work and where their children attend school.

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The Twin Cities is now one of the most ethnically diverse areas in the country, indeed the world has come to our doorstep.

There are very few churches serving these people, many of whom are refugees far from home.

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We’re partnering with our own Sammy Wanyonyi (Shine Ministries) as well as Transform Minnesota and other organizations and churches to serve immigrant communities with the love of Christ.

Through evangelism teams and outreach festivals, we’ll bring individuals to Jesus and help them mature in the Christian faith. In turn they will reach others.

We’ll help start Christ-centered, independent churches to serve these communities, starting with an Indian church in Eden Prairie in 2018.

Our goal is to start 10 new immigrant churches by 2025.

Potential groups include Ethiopian, Somali, Chinese, Indian, Hmong and Karen

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Partner with Timothy Initiative, joining God in what He is already doing, to plant churches among the least-reached in the world; starting in Nepal and India but Europe also least reached, Sweden, Germany. Consider using Romans 10:14-15 100 a year, 1,000 churches by 2028; 10,000 coming to Christ, 40,000 people in the churches. $333 plants one church 41% of the world has no access to the gospel, no Bibles, churches, Christians and few are trying to reach them.

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ON AV E R AG E TH E TIM OTHY INIT IAT IV E PLA NTS:

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NEW CHURCHES EACH DAY

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NEW BELIEVERS AT EACH

250 LIVES CHANGED PER DAY

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AFFIRMATIONS OF THE VISION

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Tom Johnson, Leadership Board Chairman

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Other Leadership Board members

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Pastor Directors: Brian Suter, Chaz Nichols, Mark Nelson, Scott Sturm, Jill

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Significant lay leaders: Mike Ayres, Scott Jensen, Laura Gilbertson, Jim

Fox

Green, Dennis Peterson (Mtka School Sptd), etc.

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The 10 year vision excites me because it will give every individual who walks through Westwood’s doors opportunities to take on new leadership. I believe it will allow our church to use the gifts and talents that God has given us in greater measure; all to reach people with the love of Jesus Christ!

Kevin Klingbiel When I was first interviewing at Westwood in 2004, what captured my heart was our purpose statement: To honor God by enjoying him through reaching people with the love of Jesus Christ. What captures me about this 10-year vision is that we are exploding into the next chapter of living out this purpose. It’s all about reaching people with the love of Jesus Christ.

Brian Suter I’m incredibly excited about the 10-year vision because part of it is the intern and residency program! With the intern and residency program we are going to be intentionally developing the young leaders of the church that will lead well beyond this 10-year vision… and that’s so incredible to think about!

Jill Fox The overall vision to me shows us a natural progression, through sanctification and obedience, of living out the teachings of the Abrahamic Covenant, the Great Commission and Great Commandment – all of which are at the core of our very existence as Christ followers.

Scott Sturm

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RESPONSE

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Grow as a disciple

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Life Transformed

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Small Group

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Serve (at WW or in the Community)

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The Generosity Ladder

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Pick up from previous brochure

extraordinary I give beyond a tithe to Westwood

tithing

I give 10% of my income to Westwood

intentional

I give consistently to Westwood, less than 10% of my income

occasional

I give to Westwood, though not consistently

first time

I have not yet given to Westwood

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“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

ACTS 1:8

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