Medal Programme
The mission of God as revealed in John 3:16 is of love, giving oneself, descending and moving among the lost, and sharing eternal life. Just as God loved the world and gave his only begotten son as a sacrifice, believers need to spend and be spent by reaching out to global frontiers to win souls for the expansion of the Kingdom of God (2 Corinthians 12:15). This programme equips believers and churches and para-church institution by raising awareness on the calling to be fishers-of-men and command to go beyond Jerusalem to preach the gospel as witness to the unreached places and peoples. Its is an experiential training and commissioning programme to call and equip believers with the understanding, knowledge, and wisdom to exercise the power given by the Holy Spirit in boldly stepping out for missions. The believers then engage in missions through short-terms and prolonged field missions, prayer, financial, and skills and talents support for missions. The aim is to preach the gospel of the Kingdom of God in places, sectors, communities, and social groups where Christ is least or not known and accepted as Lord and savior of the World.
(i) Jesus the Model of Mission of God;
(ii) Principles of Mission;
(iii) The vision of God;
(iv) The mission of God;
(v) Seeds of Missions;
(i) Compassion for mission
(ii) Contextualization of mission Field;
(iii) Terms of reference;
(iv) Action plan
(v) Mission partners
(vi) Creating bridges for mission: Prayer, Man of peace, and Language.
(i) The Harvest Fields;
(ii) The Lord of the harvest;
(iii) The Laborers;
(iv) Appeal to the Lord of the Harvest;
(v) Challenges in the Harvest Field.
(i)The calling of God for mission;
(ii) Confirming the call for mission;
(iii) Enlisting for mission;
(iv) Getting ready for mission – planning;
(v) Engaging in Mission;
(vi) Embrace the Harvest Field;
(vii) Mission support system - Reference Church, Body of Christian believers ;
(viii) Planning and Management
Evangelism is sharing the gospel of our Lord Christ Jesus which gives eternal life to all who believe in him in repentance for the forgiveness of their sins. Faith in Christ comes by hearing the gospel as it is shared by those who have earlier come to Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). The witness is by anyone who is born-again regardless of their office, gifting, age, gender and status. Salvation of is a gift of God that is freely given to anyone who hears and obeys the gospel. Thus, everyone who has received this gift need to freely share (Matthew 10:5-8). Everyone who has comes is the product from the witnessing of the gospel by other believers. Jesus called the disciples to be fisher-of-men. Thus, as disciples of Christ we are called to be fishers of men through sharing the message of the Kingdom of God which for the forgiveness of sins. The program distinguishes evangelism and evangelism. It clarifies that evangelism is the call for every believer to witness the gospel while Evangelist as a gift and office. While all are called to witness the gospel and therefore under evangelism by sharing the love of God and eternal life that is in Christ Jesus, all are not evangelists. Believers are trained to both witness and defend their faith (1 Peter 3:15; Jude 1:3).
(i) Prayer in evangelism;
(ii) The message for evangelism;(iii) Spheres of influence for evangelism;
(iv) Opportunities for evangelism;
(v) Contextualization evangelism;
a) Nicodemus -John 3;
b) Onlookers place - Acts 2,
c) Macedonia call –Acts 16: 6 -10;
d) Cornelius call - Acts 10;
e) Evangelism online;
f) market-place;
g) workplace/ business/ social cohorts;
(i) Pre-evangelism preparations;
(ii) follow-up of new believers – early steps (prayer, word, testimony);
(iii) linking new believers to fellowship and church
(i) Holy Spirit;
(ii) Prayer;
(iii) Word;
(vi) Teamwork;
(v) partnership;
(vi) holiness, righteous, and blameless.
Discipleship is an intentional, relational, and experiential teaching and training of believers on the knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and practices that brings obedience of all that Christ has commanded about the Kingdom of God. The believer gets to knows and believes in the Lord Christ Jesus, understand and commits to obey his commandments, and engages in the practices of the Kingdom of God. Discipleship begins with explicit call of becoming fishers-of-mean; daily experiential walking, abiding, and learning the principles of the Kingdom of God; and participating in the declaring and discharging the mandate of expanding the King of God. New believers learns on how to do, start to do, and continues to do the work they have been commissioned by the master. With the primary call to be fishers-of-men, the believers discharge other services that facilitate the expansion of the Kingdom of God. The believers learn how to exercise their faith, desire and tap into the gifts of the Holy Spirit, grow the fruit of the Holy Spirit, understand their appointments in the work of Kingdom of God, and commissions the disciples into the harvest field.
(i) Precedes from Mission and Evangelism;
(ii) Purposefully communicated; (iii) Relational process – Christ, interpersonal; (iv) begins with the commission to baptize those who believe in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit; (v) Followed by Experiential teaching: knowledge –Kingdom Content, practices – Character development, and attitude – priority setting; ( vi) Syllabus: Command of Christ; (vii) Maturity (Ephesians 4:; Colossians 1:28-29) - equip believer for the works of service, unity in faith and knowledge of Christ, conforming the fullness of Christ, firmness in doctrine, speech –truth; (viii) discipleship mission accomplished –discipled win souls and disciple them to win others; (ix) transferring leadership(i) Person-to-person (Paul to Timothy; Barnabas to John Mark), (ii) inner-circles, (iii) Small groups, (iv) house-to-house, (v) small-cohorts, (v) Congregation
(i) Statement of faith: God [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit], Man, Sin, Salvation, and Church;
(ii) Practices of faith: Believing, surrendering, trusting, relying upon God, (iii) Obedience to calling and services; (iv) Ordinances – baptism of complete immersion, Lord's Super ordination of clergy, marriage and holy matrimony between biological man and one, baptism of the Holy Spirit, dedication of children Lord, Prayer of the sick, Christian burial and disposal of the dead.(i) True worship in Spirit and Truth;
(ii) Family prayer alter; (iii) Fellowship one-to-another; (iv) Services unto the Lord – body of Christ/Church, professional/career, compassionLeadership is critical in clarifying the vision and missions, exploring and understanding the harvest field, organizing workers, giving direction, and keeping hope alive in work of expanding the Kingdom of God. Leaders in the Kingdom of God are called out, adequately discipled, appointed to assume specific role the body of Christ, and are set apart by the Holy Spirit for the specific work, and commissioned by the body of believers to assume the servant-leadership responsibilities. Leaders assist workers to know the Lord Christ Jesus, understand the vision and mission of God, and demonstratively nurture workers through coaching, mentoring, and grooming them to unleash the abilities needed to fulfill their purpose in the expansion of the Kingdom of God. Leadership begets leadership through intentional and decisively recognizing the calling of God on others to take over the role of leadership for the continuity of missions to global frontiers in response to new responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities in the expansion of his Kingdom. Leadership is inter-generational and not limited by age, gender, education, or class. Leadership is about stewardship requiring the attitude and aptitude of servanthood with high mark of reverence, trustworthiness, obedience, humility, and consistency, holiness, and righteous, and blameless. It requires intimate communion and obedience to the Lord of the Harvest and the sensitivity of the counsel of the Holy Spirit
(i) Call to leadership;
(ii) Personality and Character, (iii) Family Life; (iv) Spiritual maturity; (v) Personal abilities –gifts, talent, experience, personality
(i) Visioning,
(ii) communicating vision,
(ii) mission statement,
(iv) core values ;
(v) transformation leadership (foresight, creative, and innovative nuggets)
(i) Assess situation (Aspects, indicators, method, tools); (ii) Theory of change;
(iii) develop alternatives pathways; (iv) develop means for each alternative means; (v) evaluate the cost-benefit, efficacy, and alignment to desired change for each alternative pathway; (vi) describe strategies; (vi) develop plan to achieve change – goals, interventions, target, indicators, means, actors, motivations; (vii) adapting to changing context and challenges(i) setting personal goals; (ii) self-assessment and evaluation; (iii) mentoring, (iv) coaching, (v) grooming, (vi) motivation, (vii) conflict management; (vii) guiding and counselling;
