Slides from a team project at Asbury Seminary. We were "Team Fujo" which means team chaos in Swahili.

2. Who We Are
Ministry Context

3. Church Overview
Church Name: Tapestry Leadership Structure:
City Population: 2 million » Full-time pastor
» Music minister (part-time)
Description: » Associate/Youth Pastor (part time)
» Willing lay leaders w/out direction
The church resides in an area of town
which has been in steady economic Congregation:
decline in past decades.
There are 250 members,
The church itself is a dying mono- with an average attendance
cultural church. There is one of 75 people on Sundays. The
traditional Sunday service at 11:00am. average age in attendance is 48.
The church is ready to change, for Old Mission Statement:
relevancy in an urban context. A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Therefore, it has contacted Team Fujo
to help with a visioning overhaul of New Mission :
its urban ministry. Weaving together lives in Christ

4. Anthropology
Scouting the Land: Student of the People:
» Construct a demographic analysis » Speak their dialect plainly
» Walk & pray in the neighborhood » Immerse yourself in community
» Community leader meetings » Identify key problems
» Connect with local schools » Develop working relationships
» Meet with local health services » Be a visible presence
» Survey the neighborhood » Work in conjunction

5. Why We Go
Convictions & Values

6. Biblical Principles
Seeking Social Justice: Becoming a Servant:
» Deuteronomy 10:17-19 » Philippians 2:5-11
» Isaiah 1:16-17, 26-27 » Matthew 12:18-20
» Matthew 12:18-20
» James 1:27 Showing No Partiality
Against Principalities » Acts 10:34
» Galatians 3:28
» Ephesians 6:27 » Colossians 3:11
Love Your Enemies Love Your Neighbor
» Luke 6:27 » James 2:8
» Matthew 22:37-40
These principles are the foundation
for our multi-ethnic mindset as a
church, including all races/cultures.

7. Five Values and Functions
We will give spiritual
attentiveness to these 5
main functions of ministry:
1. Teaching Henri Nouwen
2. Preaching Creative Ministry
3. Pastor Care
4. Organizing
5. Celebrating

8. 1. Teaching
Violent Way: Our Commitment:
» Competitive » Bilateral and
open-ended learning
» Unilateral » Friendships
» Alienating » Actualizing
» Applies to the Present
» Make it Real!

9. 2. Preaching
» Speak about Jesus » Our words will come
from the depth of
human experiences,
» Allow others to not theoretical
respond to
preaching with » Insights belong to all,
their own not just the pastor
“Life Messages”
» Share in hope,
share in suffering

10. 3. Pastoral Care
» Pastors will affirm » Pastoral
the lives of others relationship will
be based on…
» Deny self
» Creating space for » Divine Covenant
God to work
» Calling of God
» Willing to give their
lives for their
people

11. 4. Organizing
Christian agents » The community
of social values and
change, based perspectives
drive change
on expressed
needs of » We offer a
community. perspective of
hope

12. 5. Celebrating…
Turing away from: Turning Towards:
» Fatalism » Awesome reality
of God
» Despair
» Complexities of life

13. … Celebrating
In our celebrating, We will also…
we will…
» Affirm our present
» Remember our condition:
past, and We are,
meaningfully We are here,
relate to it, We are now.
not in pride or as if
in prison » Expectantly
embrace our future

14. What We Do
Community Care

15. Formative Ministries
Of utmost importance to our urban “There is no success
ministry will be the spiritual formation
of future leaders. We will help those without a successor.”
with various spiritual gifts identify and
grow in their abilities. Those eligible Realizing that a truly effective
will be offered internships. This will ministry is not built solely around on
involve intense mentoring including: person or group, it will be important
to reproduce men and women of
» Minimum 10 hours/week character who have the same integrity
» 2 of those hours spent with mentor instilled in them as those who
» Active involvement in small group mentored them.
» Accountability partner
» Opportunities to lead Bible study During Wesley’s time, Whitfield failed
» Regular homework and papers to do this, and remarked that his
followers were “a rope of sand.”
Upon completion of the two-year
internship, participants will have It is our intent to train up leaders that
earned the equivalent of an Associates will train others in holiness, lest we
degree in practical ministry. “beget children for the murderer.”

16. Spiritual Warfare
Satanic Deliverance: Seeking God’s Blessing:
» Business policies
» People in the congregation
» Community & neighborhood
» Those outside of the church » Government programs
» Social issues
Freedom from Strongholds:
This is a commitment to holistic
» Trauma ministries in our community.
» Spirits of sin
» Occult issues The battle will be in both ground
» Abuse level and strategic spiritual warfare.
» Torment
» Legalism We believe the shalom of
» Illness God exercised in the power
» Historical issues of his Holy Spirit transforms
people and societies.

17. Life Skills / Basic Needs
Skills Training: Community Events:
» Greater Good – food/clothing » Coffee house
» G.E.D classes » Softball league
» Basic computer skills training » Basketball, slam-dunk competition
» English as a second language » Soccer tournament
» Spanish as a second language » Career fair
» Mobile medial clinic partnership » Christian / secular concerts
Creative Outreach:
» Community beautification
» Quarterly art shows
» Graffiti & mural painting
» Tapestry music outreach
» Choir performances
» Church radio station

18. Local Networking
It will also be important to establish Examples of Partnerships:
working relationships with local
businesses and other churches. For » Cell-phone tower built into steeple
instance, a local business may want to » Church cafeteria outsourcing
sponsor one of the sports events, or » Car repair for single mothers
provide prizes for a slam-dunk » Computers donated by companies
competition. This would help bring » Selling advertising on church radio
business on-board with the vision of » Pastors giving leadership consulting
the church. » Developing and selling curriculum
» Conducting ministry seminars
It has been mentioned that the
government may try to control The above scenarios are all ones
churches through the benefits it can which have been tried and have
provide. By getting the nearby worked successfully. We would
businesses involved, we could avoid encourage our laity to think
such funding while also incorporating creatively, and recognize their God-
local people to help each other. given talents for business. We would
emphasize this as ministry as well.

19. Weaving Lives
Finishing a Tapestry

20. Primary Relationships
Relationship to God
Relationship Relationship
to Others to Context

21. Orientation of the Church
Relational
Task Experiential

22. Leadership Paradigms
Priest
Governance Prophet

23. Summary Spheres
Overlaid, this yields a
picture of our church model.
A – Relationship to God as a
relational church serving the
priestly function in the
community.
B- Relationship to others as a
task church serving the
governance functions in the
community.
C – Relationship to the context
of our community as an
experiential church serving
the prophetic function in the
community.

24. CL617 – Team Fujo
» Reach the Lost
» Serve the Poor
» Hear the City’s Cry