Preparing to be a cross cultural church planter
interaction with the journey team
While doing initial preparation in the home church, the ej and his/her church is warmly invited to interact with the Journey Team learning community. This includes a number of activities including seminars, meetings, other get-togethers, opportunities for hands-on involvement in cross-cultural church planting and more focused study or skill development.
Any ej or member of their home church is warmly invited to visit us in western Sydney at any time, or to participate in any activity Journey Team members are involved in.
preparation in the home church
Initial preparation for cross-cultural church planting is essentially the same as for training for Christian leadership in your own culture. The best place to do this is in the context of your local church among the people who know you best. The things that need to be covered are:
- reading the whole Bible
- growing in maturity and responsibility so that your church leadership would be happy to have you in leadership in the church (agreeing that you fulfil the Timothy and Titus criteria for leadership)
- developing a vital spiritual walk
- gaining experience in evangelism and discipleship
- determining where you believe God is calling you to go and having this call tested and affirmed by your home church leadership
There are many different ways that the above things can be achieved. Each church and denomination may do it differently. How it is done is not important. What is important is that your home church leadership is sure that you have fulfilled the criteria and are therefore ready to move onto the next step.