Chapter Building Resources - Ministry Exchange (MX)

Annotated List of Chapter Building Resources

Rich Lamb

Sketches of Leadership: Follows a 2-page model of leadership training from
scripture that is meant to be able to be used in student training settings
with a minimum of 45 minutes up to about 90 minutes in the training
setting. These are modular and independent units, not reliant on other
parts of the curriculum, with no need to follow any order or pattern.

I. Influence Training: Helping prepare young “leaders” to step into
leadership and try to serve, listen to, care for, and influence followers
in ministry.

1. God as Shepherd. Psalm 23, John 10:1-5, 10-15. We cannot be a shepherd if we do not have a shepherd. Good and bad models of shepherding. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5039 2. Call of a Shepherd: John 21:15-19, Ezekiel 34:1-6. To love Jesus means to feed his sheep, to lay down our lives, to follow Jesus. We care for the flock not because we have been selected as leaders, but as a consequence of our desire to follow Jesus. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5040 3. Leader Leads by Serving: Mark 1:40-44, Mark 5:24-34. Jesus heals the leper and the woman with the flow of blood. Characteristics of a servant: sensitivity, willingness, ability. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5041 4. Leader Serves by Leading: John 13:1-17. Insight and Foresight. Our ability to serve is limited by what we are able to see. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5042 5. Leader Serves by Leading: Mark 10:41-45. Why be a servant? Others’ needs are met, we are blessed, God is glorified, when we serve others with God’s resources. Servant leadership is a tool (a means) and a model (an end). It is both how we build trust and what we call people to. Two types of leadership abuse. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5043 6. Transformative Influence 1: John 1:35-51, John 4:27-27. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5044 7. Transformative Influence 2: John 15:1-17, John 21:15-19. These two studies form a unit, focusing on Jesus’ model of discipleship influence, following a flow: Living Example, Provocative Teacher, Supportive Coach, Ultimate Delegator. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5045 8. Leader as Sentinel: Ezekiel 33:1-9, Hebrews 3:12-14. Examining the role of exhortation and defining it for today. Exhortation is helping people to reject the lies they’ve believed by debunking the lies of sin. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5046 9. The Sentinel in Conflict: 1 Samuel 25:14-35. A great picture of a sentinel, Abigail, who, upon hearing the warnings of a literal sentinel telling her of an approaching army, goes to David and meekly but boldly confronts him regarding the evil he has intended toward her house. A great study of conflict resolution. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5047 10. Leadership Styles: Mark 1:17-19, 35-38; Mark 4:10-13, 24-25; Mark 6:6- 13, 30; Matt 28:18-20. Situational Leadership Insights from the ministry of Jesus. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5048

II. Motivation in Ministry: Understanding our proper role in ministry: What
are we doing this ministry for? What do we get out of it?

11. Relationship with God: Psalm 50:7-15, Isaiah 64:4, Luke 12:35-38, Acts 17:22-25. Introduces the Image of the Doctor. God is the worker, the doctor, we are the patients. Ministry is like the sacrificial system: it is not something we do for God, but something God does for us. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5049 12. Motivation for Discipleship: Mark 8:34-38, Mark 10:28-31, Mark 10:41- 45. The paradox promises in the gospel: If you want life, lose it. If you want security, leave it. If you want to be great, become a servant. Jesus did all these things, and he calls us to the life he lived, for the same reasons. We are created to want these things. Ministry is the life-losing, security-leaving, servant-path-following way to receive from God the things we deeply desire, in a paradoxical life of faith. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5050 13. Why did Jesus go to the Cross?: Mark 10:41-45, Hebrews 12:1-2, Philippians 2:1-11. A look at three passages that give interlocking answers to the question asked: Jesus died as a ransom for many, for the joy set before him, to the glory of God the father. All three passages emphasize that we are to have the same attitude he did. An invitation into a costly discipleship. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5051

III. Vision for the Campus: Studies you would use to help broaden the
ownership of the vision in the fellowship.

21. Leadership of King David: 1 Chronicles 29:1-14. A look at David as a visionary leader, distilling principles of vision leadership from his invitation to give resources for the building of the temple. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5052 22. Standing in the Gap: Prayer and Planning: Nehemiah 1:1-2:8. A look at Nehemiah as a man of prayer and a man of planning, and the relationship between those two. Nehemiah sees the situation around him differently than others do, which prompts him both to pray and to act boldly to address the needs he sees. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5053 23. Leading with Vision: Haggai 1:1-15. When the vision is obscured by the inevitable difficulties that come, do we reinterpret the call of God on our own terms, or do we persevere and see the vision accomplished? An invitation to persevere when things become difficult. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5054 24. Gaining God’s Heart for the Campus: Jonah 3:10-4:11. God’s concern for the (120,000) Ninevites’ is understandable, but God also has deep concern for Jonah that he would welcome God’s mercy to people who have repented. This study emphasizes God’s concern for all the lost, whether the sinners who repent or the prophets who resent them. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5055 25. Praying with your Eyes Open: 2 Kings 6:8-23, John 4:30-35. When we pray with our eyes open, we see beyond ourselves, beyond our own petty needs, beyond our own fears that God cannot or will not save us, to larger needs and larger ways in which God is mightily at work in the world. Visionary prayer resource. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5056 26. Preparing for Growth: 2 Kings 4:1-7. A short study of faith-preparing for God to do the miracle of bringing growth. How much faith do we have? How much effort will we undertake to prepare for growth and new life in our fellowships? http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5057

IV. More specific Aspects of the Ministry

41. Seeing Your Campus as a Mission Field: Genesis 12:1-4, Jeremiah 29:1- 14. God promises blessing to Abram as he sends him out, and God does the same to the exiles from Jerusalem who find themselves in Babylon thinking that God has let them down. For both, there is a promise of blessing, not only to themselves but to others to whom they are sent. Helping students and staff to embrace a missionary mentality rather than an exile mentality. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5058 42. Throwing a Great Banquet: Luke 14:7-24. This study compares NSO to throwing a banquet, and gleans insights from these parables for the way in which we welcome new students into our fellowships. We are like the servants of the host, and should invite broadly, persuasively and persistently, expecting rejection but not taking it personally. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5059 43. Apprentice Apostles: Mark 6:1-13, 30. This works any time a team is being sent on any kind of outward move, but is ideal as training for how to do follow-up during NSO. Highlights the priorities of partnership, risk, authority, relationship. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5060 44. Dwelling Place of God: Exodus 40:34-35, John 1:14, Acts 2:42-47, Rev 21:1-7. The role of community in creation, the early church, and in our ministry today. Components of a small group, really focusing on community. A challenge to consider multi-year small groups as a possible strategy. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5061 45. Ministry Growth and ME: Acts 6:1-7. A look at ethnic tension in the early church, and then to consider what that could look like in our fellowships, and to consider the correlation between addressing these tensions well and growing our ministries. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5062 46. Confidence in Christ: Philippians 3:1-9. A study of the distinctions, attributes that make us unique or stand out, and the ways we can tend to take pride in them. An invitation to join Paul in rooting our identity and worth in our relationship with Jesus, opening us up to be able to cross cultural barriers into places where our identities might otherwise be challenged. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5063

Class Handouts and Resources
Vision

. What Can That Have to Do With the Vision? Renea Livingstone. Designed to help you to be able to lead with vision in any ministry setting, even when it seems unrelated to the central vision of the fellowship. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5090 . Casting Vision: Be Prepared, Renea Livingstone. Helps staff think through the various ways they will need to communicate vision, and tools to prepare for opportunities that come. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5091 . Scott Hall, Change Dynamics Model. A one-slide depiction of the change dynamic cycle. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5092 . Scott Hall, How To Lead People into Vision. (2005) Narrative discussion of the Change Dynamics Model. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5093 . Scott Hall, Mustard Seed Vision at USC (2002). The paper Scott Hall wrote to kick-off the ministry vision renewal at USC. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5094 . Scott Hall, Change Process Case Studies . Illustrates some of the typical short-circuits of the five-step change dynamic cycle. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5095

Prayer

. Concerted Prayer Toward the Vision Diagnostic Questions, David Ruark. A brief tool to help you analyze your fellowship or your students’ strengths and weaknesses in the area of prayer toward the vision. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5080 . David Ruark, ed., Corporate Prayer Handbook, rev 2006. Offers pages and pages of resources for leadership of the visionary prayer in fellowship life. Companion volume to Prayer Coordinators’ Supplement. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5081 . David Ruark, ed., Prayer Coordinators’ Supplement, rev. 2006. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5082 . Mary Anne Voelkel, Praying For Your Campus. This was presented as a letter to Carolyn Carney, at that time IVCF-Link staff. Insight regarding preparation to pray for campus ministry, especially in places suffering a particular ministry barrenness or spiritual struggle. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5083

Leadership Development and Training

. Listening Skills Case Studies, Jesse North, 2006. A comparison of two familiar situations in campus ministry contexts, encouraging students to make faithful priority decisions. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5077 . Healthy Recruitment Case Studies, Jesse North, 2006. Three role-play case studies to help reinforce good listening patterns and non-manipulative influence strategies for staff and student leaders who are trying to invite students to make decisions they otherwise might not make. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5073 . Conference Recruitment Gameplan, Jesse North, 2006. Help to think about how far in advance to publicize and begin recruitment for big retreats. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5075 . Inviting to Events, Jesse North. Tips and reminders for the process of student to student invitations to retreats and other opportunities for growth. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5074 . Rich Lamb, Case Studies For Leadership Training, 2005. A brief argument for the use of case studies in student ministry leadership training, and principles for writing good case studies. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5079 . Rich Lamb, Michaelangelo or the Tumbler? (1995). A brief invitation to consider discipling through groups rather than an exclusive one-to-one model. A look at the example of Jesus with case studies. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/4715/ . Rich Lamb, Thoughts on Leadership Styles. Brief set of notes on Situational Leadership. . Rich Lamb, Further Thoughts on Training. Email sent to an AD regarding training staff and building a leadership development vision in an area. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5078/ . Andrea Thomas, Jesus University. A description of a thorough and integrated discipleship curriculum involving basic discipleship, conferences and camp training weeks, leadership involvements of various kinds, and experiential learning. Presented as a course catalog, for a four-year Christian discipleship degree through InterVarsity on campus. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5076 . Leadership Team Resource Kit, Great Lakes West and East Chapter Camp planning resources. A huge compilation (175 pages) of resources to help leadership teams make good plans for the following school year. Brought together by Dan Denk, Andrea Thomas, Alicia Mey, Carla Bieber and others. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5112

Small Groups

. Jimmy Long, Emerging Hope (IVP, 2004), “Created For Community” (ch 4), “Communities of Belonging” (ch 8), “Communities offering Hope” (ch 10). . Evan Keller, Developing Multi-Year Small Groups, a reflection guide handout. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5096 . Small Group Dynamics, Javier Tarango. Stages of healthy missional small group growth. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5097

Large Groups

. Large Group Meeting Handbook. A wealth of resources (only available on the web) regarding the planning and execution of quality large group meetings. Topics include Large Group Meetings, Take a Look, Planning, When and Where, Speakers, Publicity, Newcomers, Worship, Leadership[pic]http://www.intervarsity.org/chapters/handbooks/largegroup/i ndex.html

NSO

. How To Use Facebook for NSO, Mike Eaton: Suggestions for a calendar year of making Facebook a strategic communication tool for your fellowship. Also includes information about pricing Facebook ads. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5089 . Fred Stutzman, The Freshman Facebook Zeitgeist, Published Sunday, October 02, 2005. http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2005/10/freshman-facebook- zeitgeist … . Helps in Contacting Students. A handout used with NSO followup, with tips and guidelines. . Back to School Bash, David Ruark. Brief description of NSO plan for outreach. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5084 . Sexy Pizza, Andrea Thomas. Information about a very successful NSO event at the University of Houston, an urban commuter campus. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5085 . NSO Calendar Example, Andrea Thomas. Used in the NSO Case study. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5087 . Chapter Plans for NSO Example, Andrea Thomas. Illustrates the place of New Student Outreach in the Vision of the fellowship. Illustrates successful planning and creativity. Used in the NSO Case study. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5088 . Retaining New Students, John Roeckeman. “During NSO we should contact many more people than we can actually assimilate into our campus fellowship—and take special care of those students who do seem most eager to grow. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5086 . Using Your Time for the Kingdom, Timothy Lin. A Game for NSO Training, helping students think about how to prioritize their time.

Evangelism

. Conversion Continuum Cynics to World Changers, Val Gordon: A worksheet aimed at helping a staff or student leadership team strategize for the major conversions in the continuum, Cynics ( Seekers ( Followers ( Ministers ( Leaders ( World Changers. Illustrates this continuum with ideas from New England’s regional team. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5067/ . Conversion Communities, Chris Nichols. New England Region’s vision for evangelism at the heart of the chapter building vision. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5066/ . Gig Guide, Shawn Young. Brief GIG guide for insta-GIGs in John 2, John 3, John 4 and Mark 4. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5069/ . GIG Teaching Guide, Dan McWilliams. Brief GIG guide for insta-GIGs in John passages and some parables. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5070/ . New Evangelism Department Curriculum, Terry Erickson, 2006. One page summary of the curriculum to be released for field testing in August 2006. . Emerging Culture Insights for Witnessing Communities, Jimmy Long, 2006. A few tables presenting the differences between modern and postmodern culture regarding the nature of witness and conversion and their relationship to community. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5068/ . Chapter Evangelism Framework, Val Gordon, 2006. New England’s 3-pronged evangelism framework detailed graphically: relational evangelism, campus engagement, events. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5065/ . Dan Denk, Campus Engagement, 2004. Considering witnessing communities that engage the campus through evangelism, engaging particular groups, engaging the college/university structure, challenging personal and public morality, and engaging the marketplace of ideas. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5064/ . Doug Schaupp, Five Thresholds of Postmodern Conversion. Paper describing the conversion process postmoderns go through, based on the five step process found to be common to many new Christians at UCLA in 1997-98. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/4189/ . Pulse Questions, Shawn Young. Ask someone if you can take their spiritual pulse to see if God is doing anything in their life. Here are some questions that might help reveal things-try a few questions with someone this week! http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5071/ . Soul Awakening, Geoff Gordon. Getting past evangelism models to seekers, this paper outlines an approach targeted at people who are not seekers but who could be “awakened” to their need for God through thoughtful conversational or engagement strategies modeled after Paul’s sermon to the Athenians in Acts 17. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5072/

Staffwork and Chapter Building

. Chapter Builders Checklist, Jay Anderson. A calendar for the year for staff trying to keep the fellowship on track to grow through all the opportunities and challenges of the year. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5106 . Chapter Builders’ Assessment Tool, Jay Anderson. A list of questions for evaluation of a chapter, using the Chapter Building Model. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5113 . Scriptures & Theology of Counting Our Numbers, Jon Ball, Jan. 2003. A brief look at a scripture on the topic of counting people, measuring the size of our work. Counting is fraught with danger and temptation, but also offers a chance to see the scale of the work of God, enhancing our faith. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5105 . Rich Lamb, AFR Analysis in Service of Growth and Depth, 2004. Illustrates tools for chapter analysis and strategic thinking through the data collected by the Annual Field Report. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5104 . Rich Lamb and Cam Anderson, How Do Chapters Grow? (rev. 2006) The work of a team of people meeting for a 18 months is summarized in a three-page document and corresponding pyramid model of the components of a growing chapter. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/4183 . Paul Sorrentino, A Multi-Ethnic Ministry Framework for Campus Ministry: Holding Tightly to the Lord and Loosely to Our Own Agenda. A description of how to be flexible with fellowship structures and to release power in order to bring ethnic minority students into greater partnership with the fellowship, even if it doesn’t mean that they come into the center of all of the leadership structures of the fellowship. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5103 . Jeremy Stephens, Taking a Community College Fellowship From 30 to 80. Discusses chapter building principles as applied to a community college situation, with a real life case study. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/4964/ . Rich Lamb, Small Fellowship Growth Report. Research into rapidly growing fellowships that began at less than 50 people and more than doubled in three years. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/4235/ . Doug Whallon, Marks of Strong InterVarsity Chapters, 1988 Study of the consistently strong IV fellowships at the time and a description of the correlations between them. Written by long-time Staff and Regional Director Doug Whallon. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5108

Staff Supervision and Training

. Coaching Analysis: Learning from the Gap, Rich Lamb. A set of questions to ask to get beyond excuses and to understand issues in staff ministry choices or behavior that limit or impede progress toward mission results and goals. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5101 . The Multiple Potential Roles of a Supervisor, Rich Lamb. Describes in table form key similarities and differences between the roles of coach, trainer, manager, pastor and mentor in the life of a staff person. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5100 . Rich Lamb, Adult Learning and Instructional Design in the Ministry Context of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, 2005. Assesses the state of staff training expertise in IVCF and proposes suggestions for a meta- level training on training for IV staff. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/4567/ . Rich Lamb, Coaching Toward Superior Performance in InterVarsity, 2006. Compares models of coaching and makes proposals for a growing understanding of the role of performance coaching by staff supervisors of campus staff. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5099 . Rich Lamb, Further Thoughts on Training and Chapter Building, 2005. An email exchange with an AD who had participated in Chapter Building training. More specifics and next steps. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5078/ . Rich Lamb, Some Conclusions from Campus Staff Hiring Process Audit, 2005. Especially for ADs and those involved in Campus Staff Hiring, some predictable and some surprising conclusions of an audit of the staff hiring process. (The full report is longer, but available.) http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5098 . Rich Lamb, Situational Leadership Insights for IV Staff, A brief summary of discussion points when using the Situational Leadership Instrument in training IV Staff. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5107

Power Point Presentations

. Rich Lamb, A Long Lever: Training on Training. A tool to help staff understand how to build quality training that resonates deeply with students and mobilizes and resources them for their ministry. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/4545/ . Rich Lamb, Structuring for Growth A visual depiction of a way to structure small groups and leadership teams to foster growth through evangelism and leadership development. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5109 . Jimmy Long, Small Group Module. Presents some Emerging Culture insights for Small Group ministry development. . David Ruark, Chapter Building Pyramid Concert of Prayer. Slides used to help us focus our time in prayer around the Chapter Building Model. . David Ruark, Pictures of Proxe Stations can be found here. Link to web address for Flickr pictures demonstrating the Proxe stations at work. . David Ruark, Praying with your Eyes Open. A presentation on Worship and Concerted Prayer toward the vision, including the popular “time-lapse photography” of a chapter without Concerted Prayer. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5110 . Javier Tarango, Small Group Dynamics. A one-slide depiction of a lifecycle of a missional small group over the course of time, with insights about how a small group can embrace a mission or face certain slow death. . Scott Hall, Change Dynamics Model. One slide presentation displaying the 5-step change dynamics model. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5111

Games

. Andrea Thomas, Jay Anderson, Rich Lamb, Chapter Building Game. http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5017/ (game cards) and http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5018 (game instructions) . Jason Thomas, Jay Anderson, Rich Lamb, Small Group Leader Game http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/5019/ . Using Your Time for the Kingdom, Timothy Lin. A Game for NSO Training, helping students think about how to prioritize their time during a few days of NSO.