Global Outreach Day

The 2020 Global Outreach Day vision is to see 100 million believers mobilised to connect the Christian message with 1 billion people in the month of May 2020.

Many partnership with national Church leaders, and international TV preachers, organisations and evangelists are being established for this.

God’s people are lining up to work with some quite remarkable unity!

Read the flyer here

‘A habit begins with a first step.’

BE CLEAR ON THE GOAL:

The goal is that people reach at the least ONE person with the Gospel on Global Outreach Day! 

…though any effort to do something new is surely a ‘win’ for you and your church!

This could be attempted through a one-on-one conversation with an unsaved friend or neighbour over coffee or…

• a FB post inviting conversations (Note the amazing www.yesHEis.com app – and see their 30sec G.O.D. promo video here, and 90sec video here – why not show this to your congregation?)
• a sincere question about faith to a long-time friend,
• the giving out of Christian booklets to letterboxes or householders,
• an act of love and kindness with a smile and an open ear,
• engaging a conversation on the streets or campus,
• or extending an invitation to a local outreach event.

Encourage your members to do something that will work for them – or to try something that they haven’t done before.

TO PROMOTE TO YOUR MEMBERS: Download an 2018 NZ A5 flyer here, an A6 ad here, and use the promotional video found at the top of this webpage.

HOW SHALL I TRAIN THEM?

TWO OPTIONS

1. PULPIT AND SMALL GROUP (for everyone)
2. OR A TRAINING DAY (for the more visionary and passionate)

OVERVIEW:

Global Outreach Day could affect just two of your Sundays per year – or you could do a month of equipping:

Key dates:

• The week(s) before: Equip and mobilise through the pulpit and small group.
• Friday: Gather to pray (the ‘Global Upper Room’)
• Saturday (Global Outreach Day): Have your members share the gospel with others by any means
• Sunday: Preach the gospel so that people who are invited can understand it. Have coffee or a meal with people who have expressed interest in learning more.
• Two weeks later: Send a report to us, with statistics, so we can track national growth and developments (admin@shininglights.co.nz).

EQUIPPING

(A) THROUGH THE PULPIT – please see our strategy for pastors, to help them build an authentic ‘outreaching culture’ in their church at www.alltogether.co.nz/atconsulting

• There are free sermon outlines, with studies, to be found at this

(B) REGIONAL ‘TRAINING + ACTION’ DAYS 

The AllTogether/Hope Project team facilitate this in the Bay of Plenty.

OAC (Lew Meyer – lew@oac.org.nz) facilitate these in a number of other provinces.

RESOURCES AND MORE INFORMATION:

• The Shining Lights Trust sends out monthly updates to all subscribed NZ pastors about outreach. These include information on Global Outreach Day. Subscribe at the bottom of AllTogether.co.nz
• International updates can be subscribed for at www.globaloutreachday.com
• A key international resources is the ‘3 steps’ training booklet: This is written, and regularly updated, by the founders of Global Outreach Day.

The key facilitator of the Global Outreach Day (G.O.D.) is Dave Mann of the Shining Lights Trust (SLT)

• TheSLT is connected with 25 outreaching organisations within NZ, and passes promotional flyers (digitally) and a video to them annually, so they are encouraged to promote and participate in this global day.
• Basic radio and print ads are also created and sent to various publications – however, as the SLT has no funding for this, it comes down to whatever profile each ministry or denomination decides to give this.
• Lew Meyer of OAC works with Dave Mann (SLT) to encourage regional equipping days a week prior to G.O.D., so people have opportunity to join a team, to go out to connect and converse with people on G.O.D. itself. The SLT facilitate this in Tauranga. OAC seek to facilitate this wherever they have staff.
• The SLT has facilitated the establishing of G.O.D. in Australia. Stu Millar is the key person there. A network is growing. The ‘Outreaching Culture’ strategy for pastors is a core part of G.O.D. in Australia (where-as it is a part of the wider work of the SLT in NZ, and unconnected with G.O.D.). Various denominational leaders are expressing interest in this – desiring a new era in outreach in their churches, via their members. Stu is finding many opportunities.
• G.O.D. has also been started in Samoa – with Ps Samoa Unoi (Peace Chapel) and Morgan Ezra Gegera (EHC) as two key contacts in recent years.
• It is hoped that people will be found who could represent and support the establishing of the vision in other Pacific Nations
• Participating at all levels is welcomed.

Those receiving the international G.O.D. updates will be asked a few more questions than the below…

However, those receiving emails via www.alltogether.co.nz will be asked the below:

• How many were equipped reach out?
• How many went to reach out?
• How many different people were engaged in a gospel conversation as a result?
• How many heard the gospel?
• How many responded to receive Christ?
• Could you please tell us some encouraging stories from this so we can encourage others.

INITIAL SUMMARY NZ REPORT  

From Dave Mann, local coordinator, 13th June 2017

Hear 4 x 1 minute long testimonies here from Vic, Norman, Matt and Kaylee

2017 was the first year that NZ Churches participated in Global Outreach Day (G.O.D.).  G.O.D. was given profile in NZ via Christian radio to about 200,000 evangelicals, as well as promotion in person to about 1000 pastors in 2016. It was recognised as a day on which to encourage those who pastors are equipping to take new steps. It was also utilized in several places as an opportunity to have evangelism training for those who are ready to reach out to people they do not know (beyond their own friends and colleagues/neighbours).

We had no idea how many places participated – however through my travel I am already encountering churches (like a couple of the below) who did things out of their own motivation, on the basis of simple awareness.

Reports received – 10

Trained (from just these 9 reports) – 270 people

Engagements / conversations with non-Church people– about 350

Gospel – to about 190

Booklets and tracts given – about 160

Decisions to follow Christ – 4

While these numbers seem small we are not discouraged.

–       More people did things than this (many do not send reports)

–       This is part of a bigger picture within which we are aware of hundreds of pastors beginning to equip their members for ‘everyday conversational witness.’ With time one outcome will be an increased number desiring to connect the gospel beyond the limits of their current friends/relationships.

Comment: The very nature of the Church’s mission nationally is that many additional efforts to connect the Christian message with the ‘unreached’ are needed. The unreached includes those who are beyond the reaches of church programmes, and/or who do not have a church-going friend – and this might represent half or more of all people living in our nation.  Global Outreach Day can be catalytic for training and new experiences that can help in this vital yet often overlooked part of the work Jesus gave his Church.