Ministry Model
Our Ministry Model is based on identifying and equipping local national pastors who are being led by the Lord to plant new churches and then mobilizing short-term mission teams to assist them in planting those new indigenous churches. Accountability with these pastors by means of a ministry covenant is established at the beginning of the process and extends for two years from the date the U.S. missionaries return home.
We believe that planting spiritually healthy churches is impossible without first making the investment to equip the local pastors who will lead them. We also believe that we have a biblical responsibility to be good stewards of God’s resources by doing everything humanly possible to ensure that the extensive resources required to conduct an EPPIC Journey will result in spiritually healthy New Testament churches being planted. This is not possible unless each of those churches has a pastor who has been equipped with the knowledge and tools needed to effectively win and disciple new believers.
The Ministry Model which follows is designed to achieve our Vision, which is to see a spiritually healthy New Testament church in every village around the world.
| EJ Day – 12 Months | Work with the target country’s National Director (ND) to choose the EPPIC Journey (EJ) location and dates. EJ Team Leader begins recruiting team members and initiates prayer ministry. |
| EJ Day – 8 to 12 Months | Conduct Training Center for Church Planters (TCCP) Start-up Conference. Conduct Leadership Development Conference (LDC) (Mission points and ministry covenants established). |
| EJ Day – 7 Months | Start TCCP Classes (Takes 6 months to complete). |
| EJ Day – 6 Months | EJ Team Leader conducts initial training. |
| EJ Day – 3 to 4 Months | Conduct Pre-Journey Follow-up Visit #1 (Mission points finalized and initial planning for Bible Seminar done). First half of EJ funds due. |
| EJ Day – 3 Months | EJ Team Leader conducts second training session. |
| EJ Day – 1 to 2 Months | Conduct Pre-Journey Follow-up Visit #2 (Final planning and coordination for Bible Seminar and EJ). |
| EJ Day – 1 Month | EJ Team Leader conducts final training. Second half of EJ funds due. |
| EJ Day – 1.5 Weeks | Conduct Bible Seminar (Sixteen hour Marriage Seminar followed by a forty-eight hour intensive study on "The Theological Foundations of Effective Ministry"). |
| EJ Day | Each Mission Point Pastor has been equipped with 185 hours of training, a new Bible, an EvangeCube, a case of NTs, and extensive discipleship curriculum. |
| EJ Day to EJ Day + 13 | Conduct EPPIC Journey (U.S. Team usually departs on Friday and returns Wednesday week – 13 days in total with 9 being week days). This timeline may vary (i.e., be shorter) for EJs to Central and South America. The heart and soul of each EJ is the Mission Point Ministry. |
| EJ Day + 6 Months | Conduct Post-Journey Follow-up Visit #1. |
| EJ Day + 12 Months | Conduct Post-Journey Follow-up Visit #2. |
| EJ Day + 24 Months | Conduct Return Visit/Celebration Banquet. |
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Using the EvangeCube to share the gospel is at the heart of every EPPIC Journey.
Through encounters like this, over thirty-five hundred on average come to Christ during each EPPIC Journey.
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying … "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them …" (Matt. 28:18-19).
