GPS Across Kansas-Nebraska In 2010
By Ken James
July 2009
By the time you read this, your GPS (God’s Plan for Sharing) State Strategy Team will have met and made some decisions relative to implementing the evangelism emphasis for 2010 which will be FIND IT HERE. The team must have a well-defined strategy in place by August 15 to qualify for almost $30,000.00 which the North American Mission Board has allotted to each state convention for purchasing media. The media purchase is a key component in assisting our churches in their Easter 2010 outreach endeavors.
The emphasis for 2010 will find participating churches intentionally engaged in an evangelistic outreach during the six weeks preceding Easter Sunday. Then, there will be the follow up, engaging new believers in an ongoing discipleship process.
The activities of that six-week period are as follows:
- Promotion and Preparation
- Prayer Walking our Communities (Cultivating the Soil)
- “Find It Here” Door-to-Door Gospel Distribution (Planting the Seed)
- Easter Sunday Evangelistic Service (Harvest Time)
- Follow-up
The materials, including a Pastor/Church Preparation Guide, will be made available, free of charge, to our churches. Among those materials will be plastic door hanger bags, and professionally prepared materials that complement the media messages. Each church will be encouraged to prepare their own invitations to attend the Easter Worship Celebrations, or will have the option of personalizing some materials prepared by NAMB.
This campaign will be taking place simultaneously across our nation. That means that the FIND IT HERE media blitz will be seen and heard in cities across the United States during the six weeks leading up to Easter Sunday. I cannot help but believe that such a saturation of our country with this message, coupled with the work of individual churches, will plant the Gospel Seed across our land, and we will trust God for the harvest.
It is important that we remember that FIND IT HERE is the first of several emphases for Southern Baptists that will take place between 2010 and 2020. Time and again, Southern Baptists have made it clear that the very reason for our existence as a denomination is evangelism and missions. For years, we have witnessed a decline in the number of baptisms reported by our churches, and so many of our churches are declining in attendance. As mentioned in my May article, this national evangelism initiative is the result of the desire of leaders across our nation to engage in a comprehensive evangelism thrust that will give everyone in our country the opportunity to hear and respond to the Gospel of Jesus Christ by the year 2020.
As our team, in partnership with the North American Mission Board, moves ahead in its planning and promotion, I will share more information as it becomes available. I would simply ask pastors to pray about leading their churches to accept the challenge of GPS in 2010.
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