Vision

Vision 2010-2012

"Preparing for the Lord's Return"
David A. Garcia
Lead Pastor

VISION STATEMENT:

 We believe that Jesus is coming back very soon, in view of this we will evangelize the lost and make disciples locally and internationally.  We will accomplish this by the following:

  1. MISSIONS
    1. Continuing to support our very own missionaries, Steve and Donna Mirabella, Tanzania, Africa
    2. Continuing to support Assemblies of God Missionaries
    3. Short term mission trips to minister internationally and with the goal of raising future missionaries
  1. EVANGELISM
    1. Servant Evangelism – this will be under Pastor Donnie Lewis and will be spearheaded by our youth interns.
    2. Compassion Food Outreach
    3. Passion in the Park
    4. Christmas Plays
    5. Lifestyle Evangelism
    6. Friendship Evangelism
  1. NEW CONVERTS DISCIPLESHIP
    1. Raising and training more Life Coaches
    2. Ongoing New Convert classes
  1. DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING
    1. Continue G-Men classes
    2. Continue Young Timothy classes
    3. Titus Touch Women’s classes
    4. Young Women’s discipleship classes
  1. LIFE HOUR CLASSES – (Learning Is For Everyone)
    1. We will have an additional LIFE hour which will double our classroom capacity and offer more courses
    2. Service and LIFE hour schedules

    • First Service –      8:00 AM to   9:45 AM

    • Second Service –       10:15 AM to 12:00 PM

    • First LIFE Hour –       9:00 AM to 10:00 AM

    • Second LIFE Hour – 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM

    1. If you attend the First Service, you would attend the second LIFE Hour.

    • If you attend the Second Service, you would attend the first LIFE Hour. 

  1. REQUIRED DISCIPLESHIP COURSES ON DVD
    1. Each course will be 4 lessons taught by Pastor Garcia, with notes, self-test and certificate upon completion
    2. Each course is necessary to understand our core values and language
    3. Courses

    • a. The Bait of Satan

    • b. Under Cover

    • c. The Fear of the Lord

    • d. Secrets if the Vine

    • e. Driven by Eternity

  1. ADVANCED DISCIPLESHIP COURSES ON DVD
    1. Complete 12 week courses by John Bevere and others will be offered periodically in classes and depending on availability
    2. These may be offered on Wednesday nights and or during LIFE Hour
  1. FINANCE CLASSES
    1. We will offer 4 week classes on “How to Get Out of Debt”
    2. We will continue to offer Crown Financial classes and periodic workshops
    3. We will aim to see everyone debt free
  1. RE-STRUCTURE DEACON MINISTRY
    1. Aim of re-structure: to position GWOC for better management of future growth
    2. Benefits of re-structure: enabling deacons to be more effective in their partnership with the Pastor’s Vision; helping the Pastor to “touch the sheep” with their eyes and ears
    3. How it works: refer to the goals for Congregational Care Ministry
  1. RE-EMPHASIS ON SMALL GROUPS AND LAYER OF INTERACTION
    1. Creating balance: we will continue to emphasize Outreach while at the same time, seek to strengthen our In-Reach infrastructure
    2. Layer of communication and small group environments are needed to foster pathways for ongoing discipleship
    3. To see overview: refer to the goals for Congregational Care Ministry
  1. LEADERSHIP TRAINING
    1. * Leadership insight DVD’s by Lead Pastor David A. Garcia
    2. ** John Maxwell DVDs

    • a. Developing the Leader within You

    • b. 17 Indispensable Laws of Teamwork

    • c. 25 Principles of Winning with People

(3) *** The Function of Leadership and Management – Terry Raburn

    • * These will be made available to view privately or corporately

    • ** These will be offered corporately in classes or one-day Seminars

    • *** This is required for all in ministry and  DVD will be available for private viewing 

  1. SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE (Godly Counsel)

    There will be 5 layers of Spiritual Guidance: refer to the goals for Congregational Care Ministry

  1. INTERNET CHURCH AND WEBSITE
    1. Live streaming of 2nd Service on the internet
    2. World-wide audience of our services
    3. Website to include Pastor’s notes
  1. CLEANSING STREAM
    1. We will reinstate Cleansing Stream which is a 5 week intense discipleship training, designed to discover and remove Spiritual Bondages
    2. This is followed by a Deliverance Retreat
    3. Will be required for everyone seeking involvement and membership
  1. BREAK-FREE (DELIVERANCE) MINISTRY

    We recognize that many individuals continue to struggle with bondages, strongholds and addictions after salvation.  We will endeavor to minister Deliverance in regularly scheduled Break-Free sessions.

  1. LCU – LIFE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

    Life Christian University is committed to helping you prepare for your future and to pour into your life knowledge and spiritual endowments that will help you fulfill God’s call on your life.  Life Christian University curriculum is offered at more than 100 locations throughout 28 states and 12 foreign countries, and Grace World Outreach Church is proud to be an extension campus offering classes during the daytime and evenings.  The University’s undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs are not only affordable, but designed for those that already have busy ministry and work schedules.  The program focuses primarily on equipping students for ministry within the local church. Our anointed faculty members bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to each program and class.

  1. THE JOSEPH PROJECT

    We will establish an off campus

    1. Food Bank
    2. Clothing distribution
    3. Soup kitchen
  1. SUNDAY AFTERNOON SPANISH SPEAKING SERVICE
  1. LIFE POINT CHURCH, HOMOSASSA, FLORIDA
    1. We will be giving Pastor Doug DeRespiris to be the Lead Pastor of Life Point Church, Homosassa, Florida
    2. We will also be giving as a seed some families who have heard from God to go and serve with Pastor Doug and Robin. These have the blessing of  Lead Pastor, David A. Garcia
    3. Pastor Garcia will have an apostolic relationship with Pastor Doug
  1. HOLY SPIRIT LED SERVICES

    We will continue to have the following

    1. Anointed worship
    2. Spontaneous altar calls
    3. Gifts of the Spirit given to and through Lead Pastor
    4. Ministry times for healing and refreshment
    5. Anointed, relevant and understandable ministry of the Word of God (with notes)
  1. APOSTOLIC MINISTRY OF DAVID A. GARCIA
    1. The call to be a spiritual father
    2. The cal to establish scriptural foundations and patterns for all aspects of GWOC
    3. The call to establish other churches
    4. The call to oversee churches
    5. The function of Lead Pastor over GWOC
    6. The function of spiritual advisors to five-fold ministries
    7. The exercise of God given grace, wisdom and authority in disputes and controversy

GWOC STUDENT MINISTRY GOALS FOR 2010 – 2012 Pastor Donnie Lewis

Next Level Student Ministry is our new name, formally E3. We feel that Next Level better identifies who we are and reflects the overall vision of Grace World as it relates to the student ministries of our church.

Vision Statement: We exist to create an atmosphere for young people to experience the presence of God, to disciple them in the things of the Lord, and commission them to impact their world around them.

Ministry Goals and Vision for Next Level in 2010 and 2012

  • Intern Team

    • *Adding new intern team members and giving them more opportunities to minister, lead and reach

their goals and to assist us in meeting the goals of Next Level.

    • *Turning servant evangelism over to our intern team and the students of Next Level, with the

    • supervision of a few key adult leaders.

  • Discipleship

    • *Adding an intensive discipleship program for those students who have a desire to go even deeper

    • into the things of God.

  • Worship

    • *Adding students to our team who have a passion for worship and the move of God.

    • *Continuing to create an atmosphere to allow our students to experience the power of God through

    • worship and in turn learn how to worship God on their own.

  • Missions Ministry

    • *Giving our kids the opportunity to go outside the walls of our church by participating in missions

    • trips – both domestic and international.

    • *Continue to train mobilize our students to reach their school campus as missionaries.

  • Missions Giving

    • *Putting a greater emphasis on missions and giving.  We want to increase our contributions to Speed

    • the Light($7500.00 goal in 2010) and stir up faith in our young people to sacrificially give. We also

    • will be allowing opportunity to give to our GWOC missionaries (Steve and Donna Mirabella) on a

    • regular basis.

  • Wednesday Night Services

    • *Being even more relevant in the message while not compromising the Gospel.

    • *Creating a service that makes our students want to invite their friends.

    *Keeping our facilities clean, fresh and current with the youth culture.

    *Allowing our students to have a say in the order of services as well as more student participation in

    the services.

    * Hold quarterly “Excite Nite” services that are theme based and evangelical in nature to make it

    “easy” for our students to invite their friends to church.

  • Prayer

    • *A stronger focus on prayer and intercession. We will continue to recruit students with a heart of

    • intercession to our Wednesday night intercession service. We will be placing a higher level of

    • accountability to our students to participate in our pre-service prayer each week.

  • Follow up

    • *Expanding our follow up procedures. Keeping track of our newcomers (Guests) and getting them

    • plugged into our home groups.

  • Home groups

    • Expanding our number of home groups.  This is a vital backbone ministry of Next Level, which allows our leadership and influence to be multiplied.

    • Ground Zero

    • We will continue to keep Ground Zero (our Jr. High Ministry) relative to the 6th through 8th grade student. This will be a service time mixed with high energy activity, intense praise and worship and a mix of relative talks and small group meeting.  


CHILDREN’S CHURCH GOALS FOR 2010 – 2012 Pastor Jim Markham

3-D Children’s Ministry

Discovery – Discovering the Word of God!

Discipleship – Becoming a follower of God!

Desperation – God is their only source!

3-D children's ministry will provide an atmosphere that the children will enjoy and become full followers of the gospel. It is our goal to bring Christ to each child no matter where they are spiritually while presenting Him in a language and method they understand. We know that each child is unique and that is why we have various ministries which geared to meet them at their own level of spiritual development.

  1. We will have several days where children can invite their friends and neighbors during the year. We will have the a Birthday Party Celebration Day, Birthday Party for Jesus, Harvest Day, Sweet Tart Day, Easter Celebration Service day, and many other days for children to reach out to their friends.
  1. We are going to host a Regional Puppetry Festival in April. This will provide training in puppetry, human video, Children’s Ministry skills, and leadership workshops.   This Festival will reach up to 400 participants from various ministries from the state and country.
  1. In June we will hold a Kids Crusade instead of Vacation Bible School. This innovative endeavor will give an opportunity for the kids to invite their friends and family to come to church.  This will require additional funding added to present Children’s Ministry budget.
  1. We will strive in our services to teach leadership roles to teens and young adults that will help our volunteers become faithful workers, lay volunteers, and ministry leaders in the future.  These students and adults are altar workers, greeters, ushers, security, crowd monitors, and leaders in worship and teaching.
  1. We also train kids and young teens in evangelism, music, drama, and puppetry. This will help them learn how to impact their generation for Jesus.  Not only will these students become our workers each week in leading games, lessons, teaching Bible verse, we will strive to raise up teams that can help with Regional Puppetry Festival, community outreaches, other churches, and mission trips.
  1. In October we will have a family outreach that will help bring in families to our church. This activity will be on October 31 and have facets that will appeal to the entire family unit. We would like to conduct a event that was similar to the one where booths, games, prizes, and activities were rented for all ages.  This would entail in increase to the present Children’s Ministry budget.
  1. In 2009 the Children's Ministry was under budget and we will strive to be under budget in 2010.
  1. We will also utilize data base to develop email mailings and newsletter outreaches.  As the data base is a little over a year and a half old, we will work on updating children’s photos, verifying complete and correct information, and changing children’s station defaults as necessary.
  1. We will continue to facilitate the Nursery staff in the development of new procedures, development of procedural handbook, training of volunteers, and completion of theme rooms and decorations.   We will work on updating and compiling a new Nursery manual and Worker packet.
  1. We will outreach events to children's gatherings in Hernando County with ice-cream truck handout free ice cream at the events.
  1. We will create a new logo for 3-D children's ministries.
  1. We will incorporate a new fund-raiser for kid’s camp in addition to the candy sales. Children will have the opportunity to sell fund-raiser cards to raise monies for camp.
  1. We develop curriculum for special events (Harvest Day, Sweet Tart Day, etc). where student/adult   ministry leaders will write and minister with their original ideas lessons, games, memory drills, etc.
  2. We will develop videos of children in service for special events and to log children as they are active in ministry.
  1. A special training will be conducted for children are exhibiting special gifting such as teaching, prophetic ministries, healings, worship, etc.
  2. A special service will be prepared and presented to the adult congregation upon the return from kids’ camp with testimonies, ministries, video, drama, and recognitions.
  1. We will develop, write, train, and utilize teens interested in preparing for and Participating in the District and National Fine Arts Team.
  1. Special consideration will be given for recruiting of teens and adults as workers, Registrars, leaders, altar ministries, Mission trainers and team members for use in the Children’s Ministry.


MEDIA DEPARTMENT VISION FOR 2010 – 2012 Pastor Bryan Warren

  1. Band
    1. Raise up multiple players and teams to accommodate the needs of our growing church.
    2. Continue to implement state of the art technology to increase the quality of worship
  1. Choir
    1. Build our choir to a minimum of 100 voices
    2. Offer classes for training choir members in music theory to enable them to sight read music and vocal charts.
  1. Lead Team
    1. Raise up lead worshipers, not just worship leaders
    2. Begin to integrate choir members into Lead Team training to allow for multiple teams.
  1. Video
    1. One boom camera for full motion zoom shots
    2. Wireless remote cameras for multi angle television shots
    3. Replace front center screen to match the quality of the other three screens
    4. Installation of state of the art green screen studio to enhance creativity of the video department.
    5. Provide professional level video announcements to eliminate live announcement and save time during the services.
  1. Sound
    1. Streaming on-line video of the services and LIVE praise and worship albums from Grace World Outreach
    2. Establish our own publishing company which will enable us to hold publishing on all of our own music, ministry series, and television broadcasts.
    3. Increase sound quality by eliminating ‘dead spots’ in the dome.
  1. Lighting
    1. Maximize the lighting we have by accenting the walls and adding intelligent lighting throughout the Dome to accommodate the services as well as productions and special events.
    2. Add lighting to light bars to eliminate shadows during video recording
    3. Add all of stage lighting to sound booth fader board so it can be controlled from the sound booth.
  1. Media
    1. Five zone sound system in lobby so service can be heard at a level of excellence
    2. Integrate more flat screens as to see the service better in the lobby
    3. Flat screen television in the women’s restroom with a sitting area for nursing mothers
    4. Turn our book tables into a book store.  We would love to sell Godly artwork, books, and materials from ministries around the world.
    5. Professional signage in lobby for directions to different areas of our campus to accommodate visitors to our facility.



CONGREGATIONAL CARE  GOALS 2010 – 2012 Pastor Bob Brosher

2010 In-Reach Goals - Congregational Care

I.  Re-structure of Deacon Ministry

The NT deacon functions primarily as a  Servant Leader and more specifically  at GWOC, as a Care Giver.

They must be a mature and well-grounded believer, who embodies the following abilities and functions (as

in this acronym for DEACON):

D = Disciples new believers

E = Engages in relationships

A = Affirms the Pastor’s Vision

C = Cares for the sheep

O = Offers Encouragement

N = Notices areas of need and finds ways to help

 

A.   The Key Reasons for Restructure are “simplicity,  relevance, and efficiency.”

B.   The deacon mottos remain unchanged.

1. “No Member Left Behind”

2. “No Attendee Unattended”

C.  Immediate Changes:

1. Old deacon groups are now discontinued.

2. All assignments will now be made by the Alpha system.

a) According to the first letter of the last name

b) For example, if your last name begins with letter “A”, you will be assigned to a deacon who has

been designated for the letter  “A.”

3. All members/attendees are assigned in same manner.

4. Energy will be focused to primarily respond to those requesting help.

a)  That means that the responsibility is now being shifted more on the member or

attendee to initiate a contact with their deacon

b)  Exceptions: where the need has been made known to the church of a sickness,

hospitalization or life challenge.

5. Deacon information will be provided in the weekly bulletin.

6. Deacon contact information will be posted in prominent areas.

7. A Deacon Facilitator will provide ongoing enrichment and development classes and serve to hold

all deacons accountable.

8. A Deacon Orientation will be provided to new deacons, which are appointed by the Pastor.

9. Deacons will actively engage with new member assignments and  meet with them at

New Member Meals (usually 3x per year) and other events such as “Pizza with the Pastor.”

II.  Re-emphasis on Small Groups and Layers of Interaction

A.  Encouraging Small Group Development

1. Support Groups (Examples:  Divorce Care, Grief Share, “Surrendering Your Secret”-abortion, MS

Support and others)

2.  Interest Groups (Grace Home Schoolers Co-Ed)

3.  Ministry Groups (Marriage Enrichment Class/ Pre-Marriage counseling)

4.  Fellowship Groups (Grace Groups)

B.  Recruiting and Training of Small Group Facilitators

C.  Strengthening our Visitation Team Ministry

– Spring and Fall Recruitment Seminar: “Ready, Start, Go”

D.  Planning Seminars to Strengthen the Family (Marriage Enrichment / Parenting Skills)

E.  Five Layers of Spiritual Guidance (or “godly counsel”)*

1.  Interaction with GWOC services and hearing the Word taught and  preached.

a) Pastor’s Weekly Messages

b) Life Hour Classes

2.  Interaction with your Deacon

a) Your deacon is available for prayer and encouragement.

b) This should be a first line of communication.

c). Upon request to the office or deacon directly, you should expect a contact within

48-72 hrs.

3.  Interaction with a Life Line Team Member

a) This is a short list of mature Christians who are available to provide a listening

ear and encouraging Word with prayer support.

b)  All have completed a basic spiritual guidance course that addresses the skills

needed to provide basic Bible direction and prayer support.

c) This course is available at least once per year for recruiting new helpers.

d) Upon request to the office, you should receive a contact within 48-72 hrs.

4.  Interaction with a Staff Pastor

a)  This meeting is generally available to anyone.

b)  In most cases, it will be preferred that attempts have been made to connect with levels 1 thru 3

prior to the meeting.

5.  Interaction with a Licensed Professional Counselor

a)  We maintain a list of local professional counselors for marriage, family, substance abuse, etc.

    b)  Once it is determined that a spiritual guidance issue is being addressed repeatedly, we will at

    some point, refer that individual to a licensed professional for outside, ongoing help.

 

    • For litigation reasons, the word  “spiritual guidance” is used instead of the word

“counseling” to distinguish lay and pastoral counsel from that in the secular arena.