Equipping

I've been looking forward to tomorrow for quite some time now. Our church has invited Vernon and Charlene Armitage from Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in Liberty, MO down for a workshop regarding equipping ministry. Our church has been exploring what it means to be a church who equips all our members to live out the ministry that God has designed them to do. We've gone through a couple books including Me to We and The Equipping Church to learn more about what equipping looks like in the local church. We've also assembled an equipping exploration team made up of different demographics to discern whether or not God has called FUMC to become an equipping church, which I believe he has called us all to be.

For tomorrow's workshop we've invited all our staff as well as anybody who is on ministry teams. We hope to cast more of a vision to leaders in our church about how to be DOPS (developers of people) instead of DOTS (doers of tasks). I look forward to a fruitful morning with good discussion and honest reflection with members of our church. Pray that we would do that right thing as we move forward in the city of Salina.