FACILITATE CHURCH PLANTING LABORATORY
DESCRIPTION: A Church Planting Laboratory is a District sponsored on-the-job training program in Church Planting, using the S.O.S. (Summer Of Service) mobilization campaign. It is a program of acceleration: Churches will be planted by the participants during the OJT followed by a multiplication of the church planting efforts by the local churches in their local targets.
WHY A LABORATORY?
Membership mobilization is the life force of church planting. But church planting cannot be learned by “theorizing”. It is learned by actually doing it. Class room type sessions are never enough or appropriate type of training for church planters. We need to bring our members to the actual church planting environment – a church planting laboratory – where they will learn how to do it!
Babies learn to talk by talking, learn to walk by walking , Churches learn to plant churches by actually planting a church
COMPONENTS:
1. Sponsoring Church Planting District. A District that has made decision to plant churches in target cities or towns using the SOS church planting strategy. Component Sections serve as active arm of Districts in promotion, facilitation and helping local churches.
2. Participating Church-Planting Churches: Local churches that have made decision to plant churches in their local target Barranggay/s.
3. Enlisted Church Planting Teams: Church planting teams of participating churches join the district SOS Church Planting Laboratory for an on the job training in church planting(minimum of 5 per members).
4. The Church Planting Laboratory: A 4-week training: a week of customized seminar-type training, and a 3-week field work as the OJT purposed to plant churches in the district targets.
5. Learning Application: After the Laboratory, the teams sent by the local churches will start the planting of churches in their target areas. They can train more people in the church by modeling
SOS OFFERED AS CHURCH PLANTING LABORATORY
SOS as a church planting program was born in 1986 as a response to the Great Commission. The Great Commission is a GOING commission, so the best way to do missions is to GO to the Harvest Field.
S.O.S. is an acronym for Summer of Service. It is a challenge for Christians to dedicate their summer vacation to participate in winning the lost and planting a church in a target town or city. “He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.” (Prov.10:5)
It is a Church Planting Strategy
It is a Membership Mobilization.
It is a Ministry‑Oriented program.
It is a Training‑on‑the‑job concept.
It is Power Encounter Evangelism.
It is a Summer Camp with a PLUS!
It is a Church Planting Laboratory.
Because of our goal, every member church of our movement is mandated to participate in the nationwide `Plant Another Church’ program. How can our churches comply? We offer SOS as a method to accelerate our efforts to reach the goal. Local churches organize a Church Planting Team of at least 5 people. The teams gain experience in church planting by joining a month-long SOS church planting effort in a place targeted by the district. The teams go back to their churches ready to plant churches in their local target places.
