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Manitoba Campaign
Timeline
Week 1: January 14 - 20
9 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme - "New Opportunities"
- Recruit Church Coordinator
- Key lay person or pastoral staff (not senior
pastor)
- Go over job description with church coordinator
- With church coordinator, determine the strategies
your church will utilize (see church
strategy sheet)
- Determine how many of your congregation will
be taking the training.
- With church coordinator, set material goals
(estimated numbers of packets required for your church)
Call the PtoC office for goal setting assistance.
- Inform Power to Change Centre of worksheet
totals.
- Recruit Prayer Coordinator
with assistance of church coordinator
- Develop and begin to implement prayer strategy
- Encourage prayer partners to attend a regional Power to Pray
Seminar.
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Week 2: January 21 - 27
8 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme - "God can use everyone"
- Prayer, Planning and Preparation week
- Continue to outline strategies
- Recruit assistants
- Determine church budget using the planning
sheet
- Set aside “PtoC war room” - physical facility
for campaign coordination and mapping
- Make plans to implement the Neighbourhood
Strategy
- Show promo video to your congregation next
Sunday
- Prepare bulletin
insert #1 with campaign dates and local church contact
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Week 3: January 28 - February 3
7 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme -"The Power to Change"
- Inform congregation of Power to Change campaign dates
- Introduce Promo video
- “Talking points”
- Tested in Southern BC in Feb. 99
- 600 Churches involved and 18,500 people
trained
- 1.8 million people exposed to media
message through 4 high quality commercials, including
one featuring Paul Henderson
- 3 Maritime Provinces involved in 6
week campaign Mar-Apr 2000
- You will see 4-6 weeks of commercials (90
per week, 70% in prime time)
- Following 3 weeks you will implement your
church based strategies. The last week of commercials will
urge people to experience the Power to Change at Easter or
Christmas services
- Introduce church leadership team
- Draw attention to bulletin
insert #1
- Introduce web sites: www.powertochange.com and share.powertochange.com
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Week 4: February
4 - 10
6 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme -"Prayer - God is not
willing that any should perish."
- Challenge people to pray
- Encourage prayer to “take our community, our province and Canada
for Christ”
- Share the prayer strategy for the church during PtoC
- Introduce Prayer coordinator and possibly a “prayer testimony”
- Show people how they can be involved in prayer and “sign them
up” (bulletin insert #2)
- Encourage church leadership team to attend “kick-off” rally to
be held in your area within the next few weeks
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Week 5: February
11 - 17
5 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme -"Learning how to share
our faith."
- Challenge people to attend a PtoC training session
- Use a training bulletin
insert #3 with an outline of the training content and the schedule
of training events
- Have someone share a testimony who has recently shared their faith
with someone
- Challenge people to attend the training. (The challenge for involvement
in the campaign will come later)
- Collect response form from bottom of bulletin insert. Submit results
to Area Operations Coordinator
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Week 6: February 18 - 24
4 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme -"Praying for my Neighbourhood"
- Challenge people to take a prayer walk through their neighbourhood
- praying for each home
- Challenge people to ask God for “divine appointments” during the
campaign
- Encourage people to sign up for the prayer strategy in your church
and the Power to Pray Seminar
- Make sure “PtoC room” set up is arranged and, if needed extra
phone lines ordered
- Order Power to Change material that will be needed for the duration
of the campaign
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Week 7: February 25 - March 3
3 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme -"Impacting Our Community"
- Explain to your congregation how your church will be involved
with the Power to Change campaign
- Neighbourhood strategies, Special Events
and existing church based ministries, personal opportunities
(divine appointments) and Call center/Internet response
- Use bulletin insert #4
to outline the strategies
- Inform your people as to how they can get involved
- Continue to motivate people to take the training
- Review the training schedule
- Encourage people to pray and to become part of the prayer strategy
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Week 8: March 4 - 10
2 weeks to campaign start: Pulpit theme - "Investing in Evangelism"
- Continue to share the vision to impact your city/region with the
Gospel
- Give an update as to how the campaign works and share God's provision
for funds that have come in. This information will be supplied
from the PtoC office
- Share your local church budget and explain how the funds will
be invested in reaching people
- Challenge people to give through a special offering
- Share the results with your congregation and with the Fund Development
Chairman in your area
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Week 9: March 11 - 17
1 week to campaign start: Pulpit theme - "For such a time as
this"
- Show the promo video again reminding your people of the impact
of the campaign in BC and the Maritimes
- Challenge people to take their prayer walks in their neighbourhood
- Encourage people to attend special "days of prayer &
fasting" in your area.
(Communication will come from the Prayer Chairman in your region)
- Inform people of special meetings that will be held in your church
within the next 10 days for all trained workers to show
how each person will be involved in the campaign (The church coordinator
and the senior pastor should run these meetings)
- It is not too late to take the training! Remind people of remaining
training dates
- Share information regarding the special events that will be held
in your region as well
as church based events under the “Power to Change” theme.
See the website - share.powertochange.com
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Week 10: March 18 - 24
Campaign starts. Pulpit theme - "Christ is the Power to Change"
- Encourage people to pray for people within their sphere of influence
- Use these two weeks to have orientation meetings with your people
so that they know what to do as their part in your church's campaign
strategy
- Encourage people to use the “PtoC room” as the main communications
centre.
(Picking up information, dropping off completed assignments and
sharing results.)
- Make sure you have picked up your supply of PtoC packets from
the distribution center
(depot) in your region (depot information available at share.powertochange.com)
- Encourage people to respond through “way of life” witnessing opportunities
as people within their sphere of influence see the commercials
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Week 11 - 12: March 25 - April 7
TV campaign is underway. Church Strategy implementation
Pulpit theme - "Christ is the Power to Change"
- Challenge people to continue pray for divine appointments and
for boldness on the part of Christians to share their faith. Pray
for a “spirit of conviction and need for forgiveness” to descend
upon your region
- Remind people of the special events that are being held in your
region and to bring un-churched friends, neighbours,
relatives, etc.
- Implement your church strategies during this three week period
- Praise God for the results
- Use the pulpit during this time to allow people to share how God
is using them
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Week 13: April 8 - 14
Last week of media in a four week campaign. TV campaign underway for
3 weeks.
This is the last week of commercials. The "tag" changes to
encourage people to experience "the Power to Change" at local
Easter/Christmas services
Pulpit theme - "Because He is Risen, He has the Power to Change"
- Continue to challenge people to pray that lives would be changed
- Welcome people through local newspaper ads
- If possible, have someone who has come to the Lord in the last
several weeks share a testimony at your Easter/Christmas service
- Celebrate the results and celebrate new life in Christ
- Remind people of the celebration rally if one is being held in
your region
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Week 14: April 15
Post Campaign
- Praise God for changed lives including what He has done in your
church
- Encourage them to use the 4 follow-up lessons in the PtoC booklet.
Encourage people to look at the Jesus Film on the CD
- Tabulate your results and forward to your regional operations
center
- Attend the praise rally (if one is being held)
- Fill out the evaluation forms (supplied by the PtoC office)
- Close down your "PtoC room" unless you want to keep
going!
- Consider additional "Power to Grow" strategies for your
region
- Review the application of the Alpha program and order the required
supplies
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