1. Results of Inactivity – Great Spiritual Feebleness
“So long as church members make no effort to give others the help given them, great spiritual feebleness must result.”
7T p. 18, 19

2. Adventist Once Led The Way
“By what means have you carried forward your work so rapidly?” “Well, in the first place,” replied the Elder, “we have no settled pastors. Our churches are taught to take care of themselves, while nearly all of our ministers work as evangelists in new fields. In the winter they go out into the churches, halls, or school house and raise up believers. In the summer we use tents, pitching them in the cities and villages where we teach the people these doctrines.

3. Adventist Once Led The Way
“All Seventh-day Adventist clergymen are missionaries – not located pastors - and are busy preaching, teaching, and organizing churches the world over.”
Seventh-day Baptist Sabbath Recorder,
Dec. 28, 1909 reported in Review and Herald of Jan 14, 1909

4. Settled Pastors an Exception
“We have not settled our ministers over churches as pastors to any large extent. In some of the very large churches we have elected pastors, but as a rule we have held ourselves ready for field service, evangelistic work and our brethren and sisters have held themselves ready to maintain their church services and carry forward their church work without settled pastors. And I hope this will never cease to be the order of affairs in this denomination;

5. Settled Pastors an Exception (cont…)
for when we cease our forward movement work and begin to settle over our churches, to stay by them, and do their thinking and their praying and their work that is to be done, then our churches will begin to weaken, and to loose their life and spirit, and become paralyzed and fossilized and our work will be on a retreat.”

6. Settled Pastors an Exception (cont…)
“The gospel is to go to every nation, tongue, and people, and ministers are not to devote their labors so entirely to the churches which know the truth. Both ministers and people lose much by following this method of labor.” “Go Ye Into All the World,” Review and Herald, June 11, 1895.

7. Settled Pastors
“There should not be a call to have settled pastors over our churches, but let the life-giving power of the truth impress the individual members to act, leading them to labor interestedly to carry on efficient missionary work in each locality. — “The Work in Greater New York,” Atlantic Union Gleaner, Jan. 8, 1902

8. How People Join Church How people join the church Survey Results
A friend or relative
78%
Pastor 6%
Sunday School 5%
Church Service or program 3%
Walk-in off the street
Special need 2%
Personal visitation
Evangelistic crusade or TV show
0.5%
Other

9. Key to Retention - Members
0% retention when up to 2 “friends” are identified
2% retention when up to 3 “friends” are identified
6% retention when up to 4 “friends” are identified
10% retention when up to 5 “friends” are identified
26% retention when up to 7 “friends” are identified
53% retention when up to 8 “friends” are identified
100% retention when up to 9 “friends” are identified

10. SureWay Community Church
Started in April 2002 and organized as a Church in 2011.
January 2013, gave birth to The Oasis

11. The Oasis Core Group

12. The Holy Spirit Will Equip You
For the carrying on of His work, Christ did not choose the learning or eloquence of the Jewish Sanhedrin or the power of Rome. … the Master Worker chose humble, unlearned men to proclaim the truths that were to move the world…..Not by human might or human wisdom was the gospel to be proclaimed, but by the power of God.
The Acts of the Apostles, p, 17

13. POWER TO DO EXTRAODINARY THINGS FOR GOD IS PROMISED TO ALL
To everyone who offers himself to the Lord for service, withholding nothing, is given power for the attainment of measureless results. -Testimonies, vol. 7, p. 30. (1902) {CM 109.3}

14. ADVENTIST WE HAVE WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS
“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of good literature.”

15. The WORLD IS YET TO SEE…
Dwight L. Moody

16. Lets mobilise the lay members Lets Finish The Work

17. A Shoe Salesman
Dwight L. Moody was a poorly educated, unordained, shoe salesman who felt God's call to preach the gospel. Early one morning he and some friends gathered in a hay field for a season of prayer, confession, and consecration. His friend Henry Varley said, "The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in a man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him." Moody was deeply moved by these words. He later went to a meeting where Charles Spurgeon was speaking. In that meeting Moody recalled the words spoken by his friend, "The world had yet to see!...with and for and through and in!...A man!" Varley meant any man! Varley didn't say he had to be educated, or brilliant, or anything else. Just a man! Well, by the Holy Spirit in him, he'd be one of those men. Then suddenly, in that high gallery, he saw something he'd never realized before. It was not Mr. Spurgeon, after all, who was doing that work; it was God. And if God could use Mr. Spurgeon, why should He not use the rest of us, and why should we not all just lay ourselves at the Master's feet and say to Him, "Send me! Use me!”