Transformation of a Country
Stories keep pouring in about how our affiliate churches are immersed in their communities and making a huge impact on poverty, disease, and crime.
Transformation of a Community
Step 1: LSI trained pastors initiate ministry projects
Step 2: Church members mobilized according to their gifts
Step 3: Church immersed into the community meeting its greatest needs
Step 4: Local leadership partners with church on initiatives
Step 5: People of the community are transformed by the Supernatural love they experience by the church.
Step 6: When needs are met:
- Crime goes down
- Hunger is satisfied
- Depression is turned to joy
- Broken families are healed
- Homeless are sheltered
- Disease is prevented
Transformation of the People
- Church members are taught the Biblical principle of “Loving your neighbor”
- When the church applies this principle in practical ways in their neighborhoods, unbelievers see Christ’s love meeting their deepest need.
- The Holy Spirit draws the hearts of those being ministered to and they commit their lives to Christ.
- People in the community see the church as relevant to their lives because they have experienced genuine compassion.
- Thousands naturally choose to join the body of Believers from whom they have received this love, care and assistance.
Transformation of Church Leadership
- Church leaders experience LSI training along side their pastor
- They receive coaching, mentoring and are equipped to serve
- Their hearts are captured first by the new vision of meeting peoples’ needs and lead by example.
Transformation of Pastors = Transformation of a Community
- The pastors trained by LSI are Godly men called by God to pastor the local Church. Many have limited education but have great passion and are working very hard. They are hungry for instruction, encouragement and methods that work
- Most of the pastors have a 10th grade education or less and are very frustrated with trying to guide their congregation. As a result the pastors resort to legalism to control problems with their members.
- The pastors are very willing to work with LSI to help them to shape their church into an ‘incarnate church’, rather than an “attraction” church.
- LSI teaches these pastors to apply Ephesians 4:12, releasing their members to “leaven Christ’s love in their communities.” LSI does so through their programs by:
1. Turning pew sitters into active ministers
2. Turning the local church from an inward to an outward vision
3. Focusing outside the four church walls where the needs are
4. Transforming the local church from an institutional organization to a personal organism
Pastoral Coaching and Mentorship
- LSI shares a Biblical model to pastors and lay leaders that has been lost in many poor community churches:
- The purpose of the Church is to equip the Church members “for works of service” Ephesians 4:12
- Coaches teach what it looks like to “love your neighbor” and equips them to actually do it. Then God produces supernatural results!
- We train local pastors in healthy Church Process through a strategic system of:
- Recruiting (word of mouth based on results)
- Training (seminars, workshops, small groups, personal coaching)
- Peer modeling
- Community/network (linked together through coaches)
- Coaching (1 on 1 with an LSI trained coach)
- Coaching Process
- It takes about a year to 18 months for the pastors to complete phase one of NCD. (Natural Church Development) and the other facets of LSI training.
- NCD, (an effective tool used by LSI) is a program that the LSI coaches teach for healthy church development. It has software and an outcomes/performance assessment along with recommendations and guidance on deficiencies, etc. (learn more about NCD).
- The Coaching covers eight essential qualities needed for a healthy church.
- Empowering leadership
- Gift-based ministry
- Passionate spirituality
- Effective structures
- Inspiring worship service
- Holistic small groups
- Need-oriented evangelism
- Loving relationships