23 MASTER PLAN
FOR A CHURCH PLANTING MOVEMENT
AMONG THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES
OF THE MEGA-CITY OF UFA,
BASHKORTOSTAN
Finland
China Kazakhstan
Ukraine
An ongoing/working draft proposed by TeamUfa
(Chris & Eileen Carr, Matt Burks, Jesse Hoyer, Paul Jamieson, Zhenya Vasileev, Andrei Dzuba, Maxim Markevich, , Hands On volunteers, stateside partners---Centreville Church, 1st Belmont, New Life Tulsa,
Raleigh Road Church, Indian Hills Church, et al)
Aug 19, 2013
Republic of Bashkortostan
Russian Federation
Our rationale: Believing that the chief end of all creation is to glorify God, we want to partner with God to bring glory to Himself thru the ignition of a church-planting movement among the peoples of Ufa & Bashkortostan (Rev. 7:9-12 “After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb." 11All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12saying: "Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen!")
Our vision: We have a passion to work with God to see a church-planting movement sweep through the city of Ufa and the entire Republic of Bashkortostan in the next two decades.
Our mission: We will see the vision become reality through development of a global prayer& advocacy strategy, massive sowing of the gospel through every possible means, the mobilization of further personnel & resources, and the eventual planting of hundreds of new
self-supporting/reproducing/propagating indigenous house/cell churches
Our team values:
Personal commitment to … ( I Cor. 15:58---“Therefore my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always
abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord”; 2 Tim. 2:10—“Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory”)
*God
*EAG vision/mission/values: Our vision is a multitude from every language, people, tribe and nation knowing and worshipping our Lord Jesus Christ; our mission is to make disciples, plant multiplying groups and churches, and develop indigenous leaders among all European peoples); and values (Community, Risk-taking, Overwhelming passion, Servanthood, Spiritual vitality) within our EAG CROSS culture
*Prayer *Family
*Pushing to the edge of lostness & spiritual darkness
Excellence in… (Eccl. 9:10—“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might…”) *Spiritual walk
*Balanced lifestyle
*Cross-cultural competency
*Theologically accurate yet methodologically cutting-edge & flexible missiological principles *Displaying positive attitudes as the sum of all our behaviors
*Planning for effectiveness & finding ways to make it happen, rather than focusing on ways to fail or remaining in no-win and situations with negative attitudes
Servanthood …(Mark 10:45---“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.")
* To our families *To each other *To our people group *To our God
Our end-vision: To see an indigenous, self-supporting, and reproducible church planting movement which has saturated the peoples of all Bashkortostan (Rev. 7:9-12)
An Overview of the Field
1,062,319 million people in the capital city of Ufa (2010 Census), 4,072,292 in Bashkortostan (2010 Census) w/ division of 60.4% urban and 39.6% rural
A. Russians: 383,497 in Ufa, 1,470,097 within the Republic (36.1%) B. Bashkirs/Tatars: 482,292 in Ufa, 1,848,820 within the Republic (45.4%)
C. Other ethnicities: 306,471 w/in republic (Chuvash, Udmurt, Mari, Ukrainian, Mordvin, Azeri, Armenian, Germans, Belorussians, Jews = 7.35%; estimate of 13k Jews across republic)
6300 (approx.) evangelicals (as of 04/2013)=0.165% of population of Bashkortostan 2550 (approx) evangelical believers as of 04/13 in the city of Ufa itself
100 nationalities represented in Bashkortostan (as of 3/05; have discovered a village of Orthodox-baptized Tatars; have discovered a village of Latvians; have discovered North Koreans & Vietnamese in Ufa; Jan 07 have heard there is a small village of Jews somewhere in B-stan, discovery of sizable Jewish presence living in Ufa as of Aug ‘08) 20 cities, 41 towns, 4656 villages
Evangelical presence in the republic since c.1750-1800 (Mennonite missionaries)
Expected Time-line:
2004
Continued development of comprehensive prayer strategy including prayer-walking o For the peoples of Bashkortostan
o For mobilization of further personnel and resources o For our team
o For the fulfillment of strategies toward the goal of a church-planting movement Additional regional church planting training events/conferences will be conducted
Writing of up to 5 more IMB personnel requests (have re-written two of them, currently working on 3 others as of 3/05, including one for an SC intern to be based in a city 2 hours south of Ufa; responsibilities are to initiate new work for the southern half of Bstan) (SC intern request written in May 2005, trying to ascertain if uploaded into regional priority list as of Aug ’05; revising Student Evangelism Team Leader request near end of Aug ’05); will be writing a 3-yr ISC sports
evangelism strategist request in Sept ’05) (these requests are now all on the books as of 12/06) (have added a J-man homeschool/ESL ass’t request as of Oct 07 as well as request for Master’s candidate Jim Havlik who joined our team late July 08; revised ISC sports evangelism request and SC intern request and ISC media promotion/cp apprentice requests in Sept 07 for Tim Wicker et al to use in stateside mobilization efforts; have written a J-man student ministry/ESL request for Micah Perkins to join team sometime in 2008—as of Aug 08 Micah will have to wait until at least 2010 because of Lord leading him to a new job); have written three J-man requests, 2 ISC requests, multiple Hands On requests, transfer request for Jesse Hoyer as of 8/13; exploring options as of 8/13 for Fusion Impact team request for summer 2014 + Macedonian Project workers for 2014-215
Acquaintance/networking with other GCCs (loose agreements initiated with New Life, Vineyard, & Ufa Bible Church) Continuing stages of seed-sowing (massive bible & scripture portion distribution, media saturation with gospel, etc)
(this initially happened on somewhat of a large scale across Ufa thru IRTV’s media campaign “Find the Power to Change”) Multiplication of initial Pioneer Evangelism bible study groups (this is not moving ahead as we had hoped…Nafis in Krivle has been doing it intermittently in his house church; as of summer 08 Nafis and family moved to n. B-stan to take care of his parents, will be starting a house church there, has been caught up in hyper-Calvinism problems here)
Initial evangelistic probing events (currently probing in Nizhegorodka & Sipailovo as well as Telecenter district)
(new church planting effort formed 2/05 in the Sipailovo district, initial bible study and worship times have commenced; Larry Moon will start working a couple times per week in Sipailovo with Alexei Markevich; will re-examine renting of Sipailovo apt with Mark Bordeaux when his team comes to Ufa in late Nov ’05) (Sergei Datlik led a gradually growing Sipailovo from March-Aug 2005 & then encounterd personal financial issues that brought work nearly to halt in fall ’06; conversations w/ him & Peter Zhuk show Sergei is now able to pick up this leadership role again effective 1/07, w/ Alexei M. assisting, w/ hopeful attendance of Dennis’ family & other believers there); Mark Bordeaux has written that he/Westside
are prepared to help us finance a 1st-floor rental apt approach for 2007 and bring a team in summer 2007 to assist, which they did in form of baseball clinics; Roman and Elvira currently leading evangelistic Bible study in a rented apt in Sipailovo, not-yet-believers are attending as of Oct 07; as of summer 08, consistently having 15 in attendance doing all functions of a church except baptizing, expect it be officially seen as a church by next summer)
Development/implementation of a DTE strategy that is indigenous and reproducible (SGA is taking the lead on this…overall they are doing a good job, but I am concerned about their practice of bringing in ONLY church staff folk from USA and not bringing in anyone from Eastern Europe or Russia itself @ of 11/05; this is still continuing as of summer 08)
Research of radio evangelism possibilities for church planting movement (concerned that a previously RBU-scheduled & sponsored radio ministry training school may be postponed for lack of participants) (currently working on an evangelistic website with streaming capabilities for Russian/Bashkir gospel broadcasts…Adam Covington was unable to get it off the ground before he went stateside; negotiating with local believer to work on this project)
Development of stateside/int’l partnerships (maximum of 10 with 1-2 trips for each per year for 3-5 years)
(currently partnering with Westside Baptist Church in Sumter, SC for 3 years; in early states of negotiation with Baptist General Convention of OK regarding 3-5 yr partnership; in early states of partnership with SWBTS and Kiev Christian University for summer student partnerships, hope to formulate some type of partnership with OBU while we are on STAS and serve as OBU MIR spring 2006) (Bob Hartman is scoping out partnership teams with us, nothing formally developed w/ either OBU or BGCO while on STAS, will keep knocking/asking/seeking)(as of 2007 still no definite commitment from BGCO or OBU to formalize a commitment to send teams to Ufa); currently partnering with Lakeview Baptist, SWOSU, Hillcrest, Westside, and every two years with New Life in Tulsa, exploring partnerships with Union University and Oklahoma Baptist Univ as of summer 08—OBU GO teams coming once every yr or two to Ufa as of 2/11
Complete initial people group research, database development, web pages for mobilization (substantially completed 2004) Immediately begin turning over leadership responsibilities to nationals with background coaching/training
(currently working with 5 new emerging leaders, meeting weekly for accountability, mentoring, strategizing)
Cast the vision for Russian Baptist leadership and other GCC organizations (we continue trying to do this by participating in wkly bros mtgs here in Ufa, working with local church workers as we are invited and are able to motivate/influence) (interesting development in Sept 2006: Peter Zhuk said publicly at a bros mtg that he wants pastors/missionaries to empower and lead their people to host evangelistic bible studies in their apts/homes, this is a significant step forward)
2005-2020
Ongoing training of rising leadership within the new bible study groups & churches
Continued massive sowing of gospel thru media saturation (we keep praying for the Lord to raise up someone to fulfill a media strategist’s role-as of Mar 09 Woodall/Haas families moving to Ufa summer 09 to help with this); Woodalls and Haas’ finished up their service in Ufa April 2011; Kelly Warters on board as new J-girl w/ arrival in Ufa in July 2011 for 2 yrs; two Hands On workers coming to Ufa for fall semester 2011 (had two Hands On workers in fall 2010); Victor/Susan Bauer finished up Master’s term June 2011; Matt Burks has applied for J-man pgm and wants to come serve in Ufa spring 2012; Matt has been approved, will be at ILC orientation Jan 26-Mar 23, arrival in Ufa early April); Rachel Rima and Shannon Selby completed Hands On service in Ufa Dec 11, 2011; four more Hands On workers served in spring/fall 2012; two more Hands On workers served in spring 2013; anticipating 2 more for spring 2014
Continued ministry of volunteer teams in areas of sports evangelism, student/ESL ministry, vocational evangelism, medical/dental ministry, systematically prayer-walking targeted areas of Ufa, continuation of systematic distribution of Bibles/Christian literature (hopefully will have first annual RUWP focus in Sept 2007-has not developed, hoping to start in fall 2010)
Creation of church-planting model centers in Ufa & other key cities(Missional School participants starting practicums spring 2011 and hopefully will influence toward this direction)
Implementation of comprehensive DTE strategy and continuation of leadership training thru a PE conference (conducted 4/03) (DTE strategy currently being heavily influenced by SGA still as of Mar 09); this is apparently phasing out as SGA reduces involvement/support in Ufa; moving more in direction of church to church partnerships to accomplish this aspect in 2011+; SGA/Antioch Initiative phased out by end of 2011 because of lack of USA funding and failure of Russian Baptist assoc. ldrship in Ufa to develop/implement a missional strategy
Conduct an Acts 29 cp training for Urals/Siberia cluster in May 2008 with Bruce Carleton and Albert Nathaniel (conducted May-June 08) (hope to have a followup training in fall 2009 or 2010); still in contact w/ Carletons possibly about a fall 2011 or spring 2012 Acts 29 refresher—Carletons start at OBU in fall 2011 as Applied Ministry profs & GO
directors; looking at Acts 29 refresher and/or OBU vol. team in Ufa in last quarter 2012 after Carrs return from STAS; had a one-day Acts 29 refresher in connection with OBU student practicum team in Ufa March 2013
Initiating T4T work in Ufa in fall 2013; will co-facilitate T4T trainings in Perm in 11/13 and in Novosibirsk in 12/13
2020-2025 and beyond Begin transition stage of partnerships
Play the role of mainly a background consultant (team considers beginning to gradually withdraw and relocate elsewhere starting at end of 2020)
Evaluation and tweaking of training and DTE strategies
Exit Strategy (end results of Rapid Engagement):
Our team will start to exit the Ufa field when the church planting movement has reached the point of 200 new small groups/churches (1 for every 5000 people) or 10% of the population (100,000
believers) Bridges: Desire for hope in a hopeless society
A yearning for a strong leader who will unite the peoples
Peace and stability in an atmosphere of continual uncertainty in every-day life Purpose and fulfillment in an ever-increasing nihilistic society
Some common theological ground between evangelicals & Russian Orthodox Church Benefit of a monotheistic worldview (from Russian Orthodoxy and Islam)
Islamic familiarity with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Solomon, etc.
Positive references to Jesus in the Koran as a starting point for Muslim evangelization (even possible to dialogue with Muslims about Jesus’ sinlessness & deity based upon Koran; use
Camel Method)
Potential business/education partnership ties with the West
The growing desire to learn the English language (ESL school in Sept 2005 led to contact with 250 prospects, 100 more in March 2007, etc) There is a continuous stream of villagers/students coming into Ufa looking for better job
opportunities, health care, entertainment, etc; more than not they are left empty after the pursuit of such things; i.e., transitions/crises are prime times to connect people w/ the Kingdom
Barriers: Existing religious systems: Russian Orthodox Church, Islam (Sunni Hanafi school)
Suspicion of all Americans as spies; general suspicion of all foreigners; as of summer 08 there are increasingly serious signs the Federation is narrowing the parameters for allowing Westerners into Russia; as of early 2009 primarily having to go to platform approaches beyond even
using teacher visas; moving more in direction of students studying Russian at local
institutions as way to get folks on ground (started this in fall 2010); 8 Hands On workers + Kelly Warters as J-girl and Matt Burks as J-man have now effectively come to Ufa &
served via student visas @ BGU
Extant effects of Communism has produced an over-cautious mindset among evangelical leadership when it comes to risk-taking associated with a cpm approach
Previous effects of outside subsidization leading to a dependent mindset within churches Latent ethnic tensions within the RBU churches; unknown how strong this really is
Seeing apartment or cell churches as a non-starter as a CP method; i.e., Russian Baptists accept such an approach as valid for STARTING a group, but not for keeping it there in the quality of it being a church
Typical non-believing Ufa resident views apartment CP approach with suspicion; “why should I go to a religious meeting in an apartment of a stranger”; “that’s what sects do”
Gatekeepers: Bashkiri government officials (especially in capital city of Ufa within city adminstration)
Local neighborhood (rayon) government leaders Family/clan leaders (in villages)
believers…)
RBU leadership, in the sense of their over-cautiousness & lack of initiative to try new methods; it is one thing to give freedom to IMB workers to initiate such approaches; it is quite another thing to provide strong leadership & empower local believers to do same
Muslim leadership, especially the Mufti in Ufa (Talgat Tadjuddin; he has been somewhat weakened by his call in April 2003 for a jihad against the USA military)
Owners/managers of property and buildings (e.g., theaters, cafes, storefronts, etc) Local educational officials, administrators, and teachers (especially at Bashkir St Univ)
Our goals:
To develop & implement a global prayer and advocacy strategy on behalf of the peoples of Ufa/B-stan To totally saturate/evangelize Ufa with the gospel through whatever means possible
To mobilize further personnel support and resource support
To attempt to verify the planting of hundreds of new indigenous churches which will be self-supporting & self-reproducing (the majority of these churches will be planted after our team exits); a key element of which will be training/mentoring of indigenous church planters and churches planting churches, and to also evaluate the entire master plan at regular 3-6 month intervals
Action plans
Goal: Development/implementation of global prayer/advocacy strategy (Jesse Hoyer-TPA as of 4/13) (FIRST: Fervent/intercessory prayer)
GPA1: To spend one day per month in prayer/fasting for a church-planting mov’t among the peoples of B-stan (begin Sept 2005, each team member) (we are now sending out monthly reminders to all of our prayer partners @ joining us in this endeavor, giving them guidelines for specific needs about which to pray with us) (also addresses SPIRITUAL VITALITY)
GPA2: Solicit prayer support for making disciples & starting new churches and for leaders in B-stan (Entire team & US prayer advocate Jeff Anderson, ongoing)
GPA3: Locate/recruit a stateside prayer advocacy coordinator (spring 2001, Chris)-completed (may need to re-recruit a new prayer advocate; present one is overloaded & not getting regular/urgent needs sent out on timely basis) (3/05 exploring possibilities of getting several prayer coordinators inUSA during STAS in 2006) (08/05 original prayer coordinator back on track)
GPA4: Mobilize prayer support (individuals, churches, study groups) for adoption of RBU
churches and key cities in B-stan (summer 2003,TeamUfa/US prayer coordinators) (as of 3/05 this action pla as it is not realistic in implementation)
GPA6: Print prayer advocacy brochures, magnets, p.r. pieces (winter 2005, Chris, US prayer
Coordinator,Ryans,New Life church) with concise info on worldview and people profile; devise virtual prayer maps for our ministry website using Google Earth program (2008-2009) and have Ryans post on website gradually as the maps are ready---have Clarke Blake assist w/ this)
GPA7: Invite prayerwalking teams from stateside churches (up to 3 per year) to systematically probe spiritual receptivity of key areas of republic and for personal evangelism contact (1st prayerwalking team came in summer 2004, 2nd one came in Dec 2004, two scheduled so far for 2005 as of 3/05); have Jim help mobilize on this action plan; Chris hopes to work on this more while on STAS late 2009 into 2010
GPA8: Creation/monitoring/updating of a web site for prayer needs/answers for the peoples of B-stan (started in summer 2001, Carl & Arline Ryan), ongoing
GPA9: Quarterly prayer/advocacy newsletter (quarterly, The Church at Battle Creek…may need to request New Life church to accept this responsibility in light of tardiness of TCABC to get the hard-copy newsletters assembled/distributed on a timely basis… (problem with tardiness has been
solved, TCABC continuing to send out quarterly newsletter as of spring 2005) (Phil & Debbie Byrd are now at Liberty Baptist in Tulsa and have volunteered to either keep sending this out for us or else get Liberty involved as of 4/06); (Byrds continue to do/fund this on their own as of Oct 07 and are continuing going into fall 08); Byrds unable to continue this as of early 2009, have asked Centreville Church in VA to take this on as an adopting church
GPA10: Send prayer needs to CompassionNet (ongoing, former IMB apprentice started this in early summer 2004) (see duplication/expansion of this action plan below at GPA17) (Bauers taking care of this since at least beginning of 2008)
GPA11: Coordinate the production & distribution in USA of prayer cards and people group brochures for the peoples of B-stan (Chris, US prayer advocate, Carl/Arline Ryan, winter 2005); planning for Woodalls/Haas’ to work on this now that they are stateside having completed their terms
GPA12: Prepare/post daily prayer calendar for our people group/team formatted on a
monthly basis (Carl & Arline Ryan & OBU student Whitney Morton, ongoing) (started by a former IMB apprentice in Oct 04)(Bob and Ann Dutton in Richmond are doing this as of spring 2006 and have agreed to do it indefinitely; (Victor and Susan Bauer are now assisting as of 9/07) GPA13: Weekly team meetings where a portion of time set aside for prayer (team, started Jan 2003; now includes 6 other emerging leaders) (SPIRITUAL VITALITY)
GPA14: Develop list of Russian Baptist Churches who are willing to partner with us in prayer for
a church-planting movement in B-stan (Larry/Alphia/Ola, winter 2004), keep them informed thru prayer newsletter (Natasha/Tagir) (will be working with Bauers fall 2007 to assist with this);not yet feasible
GPA15: Produce & distribute advocacy video on the peoples of B-stan (Carl/Arline Ryan & media promotion director, summer-fall 2003) (have started posting virtual prayer walk video clips on website as of Aug 2004, have 3 posted so far, will be posting a public-relations style series of video clips in late spring 2008,about Baptists in Ufa/Bstan ; Ryans shot new raw footage and several thousand new pix in Ufa/B-stan in Aug/Sept ‘07to lay groundwork for new dvd to be released after Jan 2008) (Van Klimetz & Jim Carmack from Hillcrest Church in Pensacola are doing the same as of Oct 07 in order to create additional informational/mobilization tools for further business evangelism teams to use for future trips)—wrote follow-up email to Jim in Aug 08 to check on progress on audio/video mobilization tools, again in Mar 09, no results yet; plan to contact them to allow Clarke and Blake to produce some things based on the materials available
GPA16: Participate as able in weekly prayer RBU opportunities: brothers meetings on Tuesdays & Respective church prayer meetings (weekly, individual team members)
GPA 17: Submit two or three strategic prayer requests on a monthly basis to CompassionNet (Whitney) (started this in late 2004 and doing good job with it; some of our team requests have
appeared on Compassion Net in early 2005 & have had a definite impact on some
special projects here in Ufa) (Bauers started doing this Feb 2007 and continue as of Mar 09) GPA 18: Develop, mobilize, and involve USA and Russian evangelicals annually in a week-long city-wide prayer emphasis through prayerwalking, Bible distribution/gospel sowing, street fairs, concerts, cultural exchange, humanitarian work, professional seminars, etc.; we simply must get more consistent attention focused upon the mega-city of Ufa for prayer & destruction of Satan’s spiritual fortresses in this city; we continue to cry out to God to demolish Satanic strongholds of crime, deception, hopelessness, legalism, addictions,etc; this will require the involvement of multiple stateside and local churches; prayer routes to be decided by Team Ufa and local evangelical believers (fall 2010-2015) (+TRAINING, INTENTIONAL CP); entire team work
thru their stateside contacts to mobilize some teams for the prayerwalking emphasis
GPA 19: During team STAS, recruit Prayer Champion Churches to help us with timely distribution of regular and urgent prayer needs, design/distribution of prayer advocacy tools, annual
with Team Ufa
GPA 20: Expand prayer advocacy through FBC Bainbridge’s Internet prayer ministry that goes out to intercessors in 58 countries (started in Aug 2005, continuing as of 03/09)
GPA 21: Take pix/video of & do brief interviews with pastors/church workers from around
Bashkortostan concerning the church planting, gospel sowing needs they have; these will be placed on our website for prayer/volunteer mobilization (Woodalls/Haas, start fall 2009)
GPA 22: Lead our team to participate in Russia Field’s call to prayer and fasting during May 1 till June 10, 2007, seeking God for breakthrough in Ufa, Bashkortostan, USR Cluster, and Russia Field (considering repeating this in spring 2010 and 2011); our team will support this on Jan 15 and Oct 19-21, 2012
GPA: Jesse Hoyer starting to set up a closed Facebook prayer group as of 4/13 with eventual goal of at least 1000 pray-ers; private FB prayer group went fully live by summer 2013 & currently has 260+ members and growing weekly; Jesse is posting at least twice a week on average
Goal: Saturation/evangelization of B-stan w/ gospel through every possible means (“whatever it takes…”)
(FIRST: intentional church planting through planned evangelism, gathering of people, new groups)
GS1: Targeted distribution of Jesus videos/audio cassettes/CDs with media-appropriate feedback loops (Bashkortostan Jesus Film team, media promotion director, 2003-2015) (Woodalls/Haas starting early 2010)
GS2: Targeted distribution of scripture portions “e” (electronic) tracts on cassettes, floppy disks, cds, & dvds) to university students w/ response mechanism (TeamUfa, Ufa Bible Church, New
Life team, 2004-2006) (Adam Covington currently working on evangelistic website in Russian; we intend to have the evangelistic website presentations on cds as self-executing files that can be given to students through evangelistic endeavours in off-campus settings) (fulfillers: same as GS1)
GS3: Partner with CARS, ABS ,IBS, Russian Bible Soc., Gideons (et al), independent evangelical missionaries, & other GCCs to provide/distribute up to 1,000,000 Bibles (modern language?) in Russian, Bashkiri, Tatar, Chuvash, Mari, Udmurt, Central Asian Russian & possibly several other minority ethnic languages (2003-2015) (because of generous LMCO funding we are positioned to purchase/distribute thousands of Bibles/scripture portions in next several years as of early 2009) GS4: Design/maintain/update contextually relevant and targeted evangelistic web pages with built-in
feedback loops toward the goal of virtual connections with seekers online and beginning evangelistic bible studies/church plants online (Carl & Arline Ryan, Rustem, Zhenya Melnikov), start designing them in late 2009 (Woodalls/Haas), hope to be online by late 2010; we hope to print plastic
shopping bags displaying the website address; bags will be given away free to local stores and from student-to-student)
GS5: Research and build relationships with local officials to begin local evangelistic/discipleship radio broadcasts, donations of CCM cds (Chris, RBU leadership, 2003-?); awaiting donation of cds from stateside sources as of 8/04)) (3/05: may need to postpone this until returning from STAS in 2006?)(Simon from Sweden is coming to Ufa in late 2007 to probe radio broadcast possibilities, perhaps something will develop in relation to his visit) (no change as of Aug 08)
GS6: Set up phone-referral & e-mail/snail mail response system (“hot-lines”) to deal with information requests resulting from feedback loops built in to each segment of evangelistic strategy (?, by winter 2003) (IRTV’s evangelistic campaign “Find the Power to Change” began in winter 2003 &
continues to fund such a hotline here in Ufa after having trained local believers to man the phones; unknown how long the hotline will be maintained; still active as of 8/04)
GS7: Partner with GCCs to provide/distribute children’s version of Jesus film (Team, local churches; 2004-2015) with built-in feedback loop toward including them and their families in a CPM
GS8: Use Evangecube in children’s/youth summer camps to encourage faith in Christ and then follow up with Russian version of Brock,PE, & CSI evangelistic/discipleship literature (2003-2010)
50 cubes on hand; one local summer evangelism team has used the training to further their
efforts to share the gospel in area villages with some success in leading people to faith in Christ); Max Markevich’s summer itinerant evangelism teams using them from us in summer Aug 08)
GS9: Use “Forgiven” witnessing cards within prison/police network in order to gain hearing for gospel (Chris,Valentin, ongoing), possibly prison correspondence courses? (as of Jan 07, several prisoners have come to faith in Christ thru this approach, Valentine has thriving prison ministry and open doors to all of B-stan’s 20 prisons holding 25,000+ prisoners; several who have been reached thru the Forgiven card are now ministering alongside Valentine, regularly going back into the prisons to preach and lead worship in small churches behind prison walls); need to schedule another print run on this (using approved project funds) going into fall 2009 (Woods/Haas)
GS10: Work with Russian GCCs to form a team to minister to alcoholics/drug addicts & families (Chris, RBU churches started summer 2001;) (since its inception the rehab center in the city of Oktiabrski has assisted 250 individuals with various addictions; 104 have completed the 2 month rehab; at least 30 have been baptized and are active members of local churches; a 2nd center opened in July 2004 in the city of Sterlitamak; a third center is being prepared somewhere in the countryside to the south of Ufa; I know of at least 4 reformed addicts who are now involved in church planting) (stats as of March ’05); embarking on new project in fall of 2005 to distribute 25,000 brochures in
the Sipailovo region to target addicts/alcoholics and their families in order to start a new evangelistic bible study group in the apartment being rented thru Team Ufa, working with two local RBU bros who are former addicts themselves, along with Alexei Markevich and family who are caretakers of the apartment; as of Oct 07 seeking a room to rent under ldrship of Grace Church to start social outreach to homeless, addicts, etc & have funds from HC to assist w/ this Ministry; Grace Church found a small house to rent in Feb 08 and are still using it as of summer 08 and had good ministry to street kids until summer time, anticipate it will pick back up with start of school year; still continuing as of March 09 with fairly good effectiveness meeting physical needs of kids and communicating key gospel concepts to them and some of their parents—encountering some opposition from neighbors and police (INTENTIONAL PLANTING OF CHURCHES AND REACHING NEW PGS)
GS11: Discover existence of orphanages, prisons, hospitals, internats, schools in Ufa/B-stan, their needs, and design strategies to evangelize the kids, patients, & workers and minister to their social needs, possibly thru partnerships (led by Victor & Susan Bauer who are to arrive sometime spring ‘07; possibly trying a probing test case in Nizhegorodka region of Ufa in providing a hot meal once a week to poor folks along with an evangelistic bible study opportunity thru sponsorship of Grace Church and Peshkin family)(RAPID ENGAGEMENT ISSUES)(in spring 2007 hope to get a mercy ministry off the ground thru Grace Church as a tangible expression of God’s love for evangelism) (see GS10); mercy ministry continues Mar 09, waiting for Anton and Sveta to finish Bible school in Krasnoyarsk and return to Ufa to help lead Grace Church ministry to alcoholics/addicts, also indirectly working with Iblis in street kid ministry involvement;
Anton/Sveta living in Birsk as of end of 2011 and have started evangelistic BS group there and also connecting with addicts---7 folks now in rehab in Belebei
GS12: Partner with the Ufa-based B-stan Jesus Film Team for evangelistic media ministry in Ufa in multiple languages (Team Ufa, Jesus Film team, began spring 2003)
GS13: Provide a copy of the Jesus video in Russian to every school, university, trade school, institute, and governmental office (Chris/Eileen, RBU, Jesus Film team, 2008-2010) with a built-in feedback loop (in 2008 will need to write add’l strategy funding request to accomplish this) GS14: Assist with initial startup costs of Christian bookstore in Ufa (Ufa team, Russian nationals, 2003) (bkstore initially slated to open in spring 2004; various obstacles (some bureaucratic) have thus far prevented the bkstore from opening; place has been secured/remodeled, workers trained, & shelves stocked as of 8/04; awaiting RBU leadership decisions as to who will try to jump-start the effort to get the bkstore officially opened) (as of 2/05: bkstore now opened in Central Baptist Church in Ufa; some type of new city regulation prevented the Bapt. Assoc. from being able to operate a for-profit business in the type of rooms being rented)
GS15: Coordinate evangelistic English camps in the Ufa area to share gospel with students & faculty (will write vol requests for this for groups to come in 2008-2010, facilitated by US volunteer teams, Bob Hartman ministries, and Team Ufa); Centreville Church from
Virginia will take lead on bringing an ESL camp team to Ufa in summer 2008, will talk with them at mission conference in March 2009 about repeating this in summer 2010
GS16: Print and provide shopping bags with our new evangelistic website address & other evangelistic website addresses & short gospel presentations (2005-2006) (not feasible) (will discuss this with Clarke/Blake after their arrival as to feasibility)
GS 17:Conduct English-language worship services/evangelistic bible studies based upon the core of the evangelistic English classes conducted in Ufa started from 2005 onward (Team Ufa, ESL partners) (with our Ufa ministry partners, 2 new classes have been started as of Nov 4 2005, with 2 more slated to start by mid-Nov, along with starting an evangelistic English worship/bs time by end of November with leadership of 6 different local believers & the Moons)(RAPID ENGAGEMENT) GS 18: Host monthly young women’s/students evangelistic fellowships at Carr apartment (started late 2004, led by Eileen and Josie, presently have average of 10 per month, directing character study Bible studies based upon different women of the Bible) (had 21 at Oct 05 meeting, gospel is being more and more openly shared and modeled for the participants, ½ of whom are not yet believers; Carrs & local believers will resume this following STAS)(has been resumed 2007 in cooperation with Ufa Bible Church with increasing presentation of gospel; group met twice during summer 2008 and some of the ESL female participants have come to the young women’s group);
many of the gals are now attending worship at Ufa Bible Church and attending Bible studies at Bauers’ and Jims’ apartments as of Feb 2009; evangelistic Women’s and Club’s are meeting most months as of end of 2011; Eileen facilitates women’s Bible study group two Sat mornings mthly
GS 19:Work with Hillcrest Church (Pensacola, Florida) and other churches to present evangelistic ESL
schools in Ufa fall 2005 and beyond for up to 350 seekers; Team Ufa (especially Moons during Carr STAS) and Ufa believers will preserve contact with school participants by teaching 2 follow-up English classes for purposes of conserving new believers & intentional evangelism with seekers (Oct 07 now have ongoing regular commitments from Lakeview Baptist Church in Selmer, TN and from Eastern Hills Baptist Church (Albuquerque, NM) to do annual ESL
workshops with us in Ufa & other B-stan towns as way to share the gospel & start new bs groups; Mississippi College law dep’t faculty/students will bring their 1st ESL team to Ufa in May 2008;
as of Dec 8, 2007 the Mississippi team has fallen thru and will not be here) (hope to have a Hillcrest team in fall 2009) (Hillcrest team possibly in last quarter 2012)
GS 20: Work with Global Mission Project & Int’l World Changers organizations to share the gospel through various musical presentations, creative arts, service projects, and creative evangelism in
strategic/unreached segments of Ufa; Team Ufa will follow up in conjunction with local believers by leading inductive Bible studies and worship services while training/grooming new leaders from within the new groups (2006-2010; praying for at least 2 teams from each organization annually; IWC scheduled to bring team to Ufa late Dec 06 for Christmas cultural evangelism; GMP is working w/ our team to recruit/train music evangelism teams for Ufa for 2007-2008) (RAPID ENGAGEMENT ISSUES) (GMP is in time of reorganization in late 06 and early 07 but email communication shows they are still committed to bringing teams from Park Cities Dallas and 1st Middleburg FL to Ufa in 07-08) (Park Cities and Middleburg fell through because of scheduling conflicts; currently working w/ GMP to bring a music team from Bellevue Baptist (Memphis) to Ufa in June 08; IWC team was in Ufa July 2007 and will return June 08, will write request in early 2008 for a team to return in 2009); GMP is promoting a trip to Ufa for sometime outside of summer 2009; IWC brought a team to Ufa in June 2008 and made good relational inroads with multiple translators and students, some of whom are now coming to Bauers’ Saturday ESL groups and Sunday English-language Bible study group
GS 21: “An American Christmas in Ufa” (annually in December); cultural interchange with students in Bashkir State University (et al), complete with Christmas music, concerts, and an led Christmas party with an invitation to follow Jesus and be a part of a bible study
(RAPID ENGAGEMENT ISSUES) (2008ff) (have deleted funding request for this from 2008 strategy request list; need to rethink how to do this on smaller more focused scale for 2008-10?)
GS 22: “An American Independence Day in Ufa”; (annually in July starting 2007) a cultural and evangelical celebration through music, food, fireworks, storytelling, etc, led by American volunteer teams, to be followed up by Team Ufa and local English-speaking believers thru ongoing personal contact via English practice, Bible study, &cultural exchange
(RAPID ENGAGEMENT ISSUES)
GS 23: Lobby local RBU leadership to include practical personal evangelism training at Creative Arts Festival in summer 2007: Evangecube, witnessing bracelets, marked NT, SJWF, etc
GS 24: Work with pastor Ray Burks and Lakeview Baptist (Selmer, TN) to present an ESL school in Ufa March 25-29, 2007 for the purpose of evangelism, gathering interested persons into evangelistic English clubs after the school, birthing of a new evangelistic Bible study (Lakeview was here in March 2007 and three ESL groups were created w/ Bible being used each lesson; Lakeview will return in March 2008 for another ESL workshop; SWOSU team will precede Lakeview team to do student ministry, advertise the workshop in univ.
classrooms, and interview Ufa participants for Lakeview’s ESL project in March 2008);
Lakeview is planning to bring a team again in late May 2009; Ray and family have been at 1st Belmont MS for over a year as of end of 2011 and have started partnership work with House of Prayer Church in Ufa; Belmont looking at assisting HOP w/ renovation project summer 2014
GS25: Get Jim Havlik on board at ABIC as a conversational ESL facilitator with intention of connecting with various participants to involve them in ESL activities outside of the classroom, special events, holiday celebrations, etc as ways to naturally live out and communicate faith, also start hosting own ESL conversational groups at his apartment at least once a week with a goal to start an English-language Bible study group by end of 2009
GS26: Working through local churches such as Ufa Baptist Church and Ufa Bible Church and Grace, have Jim and Victor (both by themselves and in conjunction with volunteer teams) develop witnessing relationships with teen-aged boys and young men through baseball activities (Mark Bordeaux possibly back in Ufa in 2014 to do evangelistic baseball clinics) GS27: Chris officially became CGE/OBU field rep in summer 2013 in relation to BSPU for purposes of leveraging int’l educational partnerships and exchanges as platforms for sharing the gospel
Goal: Mobilization of personnel and resources
GM1: Partner with up to 10 different churches/conventions/groups for the purpose of
prayerwalking (see GPA7), personal evangelism, ESL, cpm leadership training/practicii, & for direct personnel recruiting/networking (Ufa team, by end of 2004) (presently, various levels of partnership include Westside Baptist Church Sumter SC; New Life Baptist Church Tulsa OK; IWC, LifeWay, The Church at Battle Creek Tulsa OK, Bob Hartman Ministries, Hillcrest Baptist in Pensacola Florida, SWBTS, Okla. Bapt. Univ.; exploring potential for partnerships with Kiev Christian University and BGCO, will follow up during STAS)(as of Jan 07 new ministry partners include Lakeview Baptist Church in Selmer TN, Hoffmantown Church in Albuquerque, Carl & Arline Ryan planning a return trip to Ufa in Sept ’07 for follow up advocacy dvd project)(Ryans were in Ufa late Aug-early Sept 07 and shot footage and photos for new advocacy dvd to be released after Jan 2008); as of 2012/2013 partnering w/ New Life, C’ville, Raleigh Road, 1st Elk
City, & 1st Belmont
(RAPID ENGAGEMENT, INTENTIONAL CP, & PRAYER ISSUES)
GM2: Write personnel requests for specific persons to join our ministry teams (ongoing)
including a team leader for indigenous deaf church planting (2008) and various ISC personnel (writing J-man request as of 1/28/07 for Micah Perkins to join team in late 2007 or into 2008 for strategy fulfillment in areas of administrative support, student ministry, and ESL; update 09/07:
Micah still reducing debt and working thru other requirements toward a J-man app’t perhaps spring ‘08)(Micah hoping to go to conference in spring 2008; have written a J-man request for homeschooling and ESL assistance as of Sept 07; in process of writing Masters request Oct 07 for Jim Havlik to join team for sports evangelism and ESL work; will be talking to Carol Smith during ESL project Oct 07 in Ufa/Ishimbai regarding joining our team in 2008); wrote Masters request for Jim Havlik and he arrived in Ufa late July 08; Carol Smith appears to be heading to St Pete w/ IMB; Micah is off the radar for at least 2 perhaps 3 years; Kelly Warters joined team in summer 2011 as J-girl; Matt Burks joining team in April 2012 as a ESL worker and homeschool ass’t
GM3: Network thru stateside churches for potential personnel to work on our team (ongoing)
GM4: Serve as missionaries-in-residence at Okla. Baptist Univ. in spring 2006 for following purposes: 1. To personalize mission involvement to the students from a first-hand perspective
2. To mobilize future short- and long-term personnel (especially J-men & ISC) within the university context
3. To personalize mission involvement to local churches, associations, and state conventions for the purposes of initiating/developing partnerships
4. To mobilize (at a minimum) an add’l 500 (preferably 1000+) prayer partners for our team’s work 5. To teach CPM-oriented courses that will impact scores of future mission volunteers, with a goal of life-transformation and reproducible transference (added 300+ prayer partners)
GM5: Do an evaluation of Larry & Josie Moon by mid-2006 to facilitate debriefing during their
STAS with a view toward their potential return in early 2007 as career-appointed church planters & trainers (Moons completed their initial apprenticeship with Team Ufa in Feb 2006 and have transitioned to the Petersburg team as of March 2006, serving there as of Nov 2011)
GM 6: Write business plan proposals for various microfinance/microbusiness projects in Ufa:
-Provides initial startup funds to help local pastors and members develop more dependable & realized sources of stable income, thereby reducing outside dependence, increasing tithes in local churches, raising status of Christian workers in the public arena, promoting a business
atmosphere of honesty and integrity, contributing to the market economy development in Ufa, and removing one of the biggest perceived barriers to widespread church planting in Ufa -work with groups such as Geneva Global, Highmark,Barnabas Fund in England (2006-2010)
-end of Jan ’07 reading some microfinance materials forwarded by Jeff Anderson
-have emailed California Baptist University, which is interested in sending a team of students/ professors to Ufa in 2007 or 2008 to present some microbusiness seminars for believers; waiting for response from them
-using personal and strategy funds in a small startup in Oct 07 that will impact two different churches through increased incomes and stable income source for pastoral salary support, increased tithes, intentional earmarking of profits (minimum six months after start of business) for building/land acquisition for a church and also for salary support for church planters across B-stan; intention is to open a network of such church/faith-based small businesses across
Bashkortostan to aid financial needs related to church income, pastoral salary support, and church planter salary support so as to widen the pool for potential church planters and use business as mission);the small business has seen some decent growth and 10% of profit is tithed back to Grace Church and has been used for various evangelistic projects, summer camps, training events, bldg fund, etc; need to talk w/ Grace members about increasing pastor’s salary as a result;
in early stages of exploring a coffee house/organic church start in Telecenter as of Nov 2011; meetings w/ Albert-Andrei-Maxim Jan 2012 about logistics/costs/locations/financing/staffing (RAPID ENGAGEMENT ISSUES, INTENTIONAL CP)
GM 7: Conduct a church planting summit while on STAS as a time of update, networking, envisioning, & creation of new ministry partnerships (between Jan-July 2006) (two summits conducted while on STAS in 2006: Jan 13-15 in Richmond, Apr 21-23 in Tulsa) (two more planned during STAS late 2009-summer 2010) (update: possibly do a summit in Tulsa or KC area while stateside in late July/early Aug 2008 for doctoral seminar in at Midwestern Seminary); will be doing final doctoral
seminar in KC 3rd week of January, considering an Ufa CP Summit in Tulsa in mid-January; plan
to have another Summit during Aug-Oct 2012 STAS in Tulsa
GM 8: Host the Bauer family July 13-16, 2005 for a vision trip to assist them in discerning “what they are getting into” as they move toward joining our team sometime in 2006 (Bauers in Moscow as of Nov 15 ’06, started language study Nov 27, will attend AGM Mar-Apr ’07, then move to Ufa); Bauers arrived in Ufa April 19 and are heavily involved in ESL work and networking into a multitude of educational establishments as guest speakers/lecturers on many topics in order to start/develop witnessing relationships; as of Oct 07 am have handed off most of the ESL work and will be getting them training in Prague in March 2008 to address vol team logistical issues so they can start more directly assisting with those responsibilities);in conjunction with GS25, start getting Jim involved in mobilizing his own ESL group(s) and English-language bible study group(s) in fall 2009 (Jim now has a Sunday afternoon group in his apartment co-led with a local believer, baptized their first new believer on Sunday Feb 22, 2009)
GM 9: Work with Craig Hardee and other evangelical writers/journalists to create/update partnership mobilization brochures targeted toward individual churches, association, & conventions (2005)
GM 10: Chris has entered D.Min. program (Int’l Church Planting Leadership) at MWBTS effective spring 2006 with a target date of graduation by summer 2010. Purpose: to enhance leadership skills for better effectiveness & direct impact as SC, leadership influence on RBU and GCC partners for church planting, leadership training, theological education, etc (2 seminars completed in summer ’06—Orientation to Doctoral Studies, Integrating Christian Faith & Practice; presently working on requirements for directed study seminars while on field; completed participation in Baptist Heritage Study Tour in May 2007 in
England/Wales/Scotland/Rome and have written a paper reacting/reflecting on Eckhard Schnabel’s Early Christian Mission, which will serve as an add’l hermeneutical/philosophical basis for house churches; anticipate doing another directed study course in last quarter 2007; will likely need to return to USA sometime in last quarter of 2008 for on-campus seminar “Project Methodology”; anticipate entering project/dissertation phase sometime in 2009 and defend dissertation by phone during last quarter of yr or else w/in 3 months after going on STAS; doctoral studies are having a direct impact on our cp work in Ufa already); completed a Directed Study II seminar in Ufa Jan-Apr 08; completed Project Methodology seminar in Jan 09 & have officially been approved to enter project/dissertation phase as of Mar 09; did project fall 2009, led to 17 new home bible study groups by end of Nov 09; finished dissertation Feb 2010 while STAS; passed oral defense Mar 09; graduated w/ doctorate
May 2010 as we finished up STAS; having an earned doctorate as afforded Chris higher status
and therefore gospel access within certain segments in Ufa
GM11: Start working Jim into a helper role to work with Bauers in preparing volunteer teams (using team prep guide, mobilization documents, Skype, email, etc)
GM12: Negotiate new people group focus partnership in Feb 2010 with Lakeview Church in Selmer (TN) while STAS
GM13: Negotiate new people group focus partnership by spring 2010 with Westside Church in Sumter (SC) while STAS
GM14: Negotiate new people group focus partnership by spring 2010 with New Life Church in Tulsa (OK) while STAS
GM15: Coordinate potential negotiation for people group focus partnerships with new team members Woodalls’and Haas’ home churches pre-, during- & post-FPO & arrival in Ufa
GM16: Shift toward a primarily platform approach for all new team members, as RBU is willing to give visa support only to one family (Carrs); entails a need to be more creative, focused, and targeted in balancing visa fulfillment against the background of a holistic global Christian worldview and living out of that biblical worldview (see Daniel in OT); Carrs on
temp residency as of May 2010; Carrs applying for permanent residency June 2011 (actually turned in all docs early Sept 2011, awaiting official response by March 2012)
request and been approved by IMB as of Nov 2011; he will attend Jan 24-Mar 23 FPO and arrive in Ufa approx. April 5, 2012 as a Russian-language student at BGU assisting Eileen w/ homeschooling + ESL work
GM 18: have negotiated with Paul Jamieson (Australia) to serve in a Great Commission Christian type of connection with TeamUfa starting approx. early Mar 2012 as a general evangelist and small evangelistic Bible study group facilitator
GM 19: The J-man request for Matt Burks is to be also shown/promoted at Feb 2012 conference in hopes of securing an add’l team member to arrive in Ufa either by July 1 (before Carr STAS) or in Jan 2013 (arrived 4/12); had one potential new J-girl candidate but she backed out during Expo in 2013; hoping for better results from Oct 2013 Expo
GM 20: Jesse Hoyer transferred from Ekat to Ufa on Feb. 24, 2013 via private visa (Zhenya Vasileev) GM 21: Serve as missionaries-in-residence at Okla. Baptist Univ. in fall 2015 for following purposes: 1. To personalize mission involvement to the students from a first-hand perspective
2. To mobilize future short- and long-term personnel (especially Hands On, Macedonian Project, men & ISC) within the university context
3. To personalize mission involvement to local churches, associations, and state conventions for the purposes of initiating/developing partnerships
4. To mobilize (at a minimum) an add’l 100 (preferably 200+) prayer partners for our team’s work 5. To teach CPM-oriented courses that will impact future mission volunteers, with a goal
of life-transformation and reproducible disciple-making mentality/practice
Goal: Planting 200 + “churches planting churches” with indigenous leadership through ongoing training/mentoring
(INTENTIONAL CP & TRAINING/DEVELOPMENT)
GCPM1: Cast the vision for a CPM before Russian Baptist & other evangelical leadership at brothers’ mtgs thru strategic/incremental distribution of IMB booklet “CPM” & case studies of CPMs
(Team Ufa members ,wkly)
GCPM2: Participate in a Charles Brock CP conference as a foundational training event in casting the vision for national leadership, pastors, national missionaries, etc (completed Nov 2001) GCPM3: Use of Brock , CSI, Pioneer Evangelism, 7 Question Method of Bible study materials, CBS,
Alpha, “Living Stones” (ProCore), T4T, etc in strategy of multiple simultaneous evangelistic bible studies led by nationals (ongoing) including leadership training modules within the context of a massive house church movement (nationals, ongoing)
GCPM4: Partner with an International Crusades volunteer team (completed Aug 2002) a. preparation for team evangelistic bible studies for one week
b. preparation for post-campaign, long-term evangelistic bible studies with indigenous leadership (Chris & Eileen, nat’l RBU churches)
GCPM5: Partner with Awestar Ministries to use student volunteer teams in the summers of 2008ff for sports evangelism/drama evangelism & evangelistic bible studies targeted toward youth and university students (will be negotiating w/ Awestar during STAS in 2006;still waiting for confirmation from Awestar as of Jan ’07)
GCPM6: Partner with The Church at Battle Creek et alfor medical/dental mission/prayerwalking/ VBS volunteer groups to work with us toward a church-planting movement (yearly from 2006-2008) (need to write Battle Creek winter 2008 to jump-start this)
GCPM7: Explore possibility of partnership/consultation/volunteer groups from stateside Russian Baptist churches (Chris, by spring 2006) (have contacted several churches and none have shown serious interest; will re-visit this issue while on STAS in 2006 in OK) (talked w/ reps from 3 Russian Baptist churches in OK, nothing developed so far after having been on STAS) GCPM8: Participate in a Personal Evangelism (Wade Akins) conference & and reproduce it at a regional/local level for purpose of contributing to a CPM (completed April 2003) (exploring possibility of creating a PE team based out of Grace Church to conduct PE
training and evangelism not only in Ufa but also in some fringe towns/villages around Ufa, intent is to have local pastors involved in this also, fall of 2007-2008)
GCPM9: Participate in periodic pastor/church leader conferences on planning/vision within a CPM context at local level(potential topics: budget/financial issues, church calendar, mentoring) (Ufa team, ongoing)
GCPM10: Mobile theological education development/implementation, taking such mobile TEE to 3-5 key ministry centers across Bashkortostan on a rotating basis (2006-2008)
GCPM 11: Have seasonal evangelism training opportunities (SJWF, 4 Spiritual Laws, etc) led by volunteer teams, Team Ufa, and local believers (once a year through 2010) coordinated with practicuums (looking at having Bob Dutton back to Ufa to do some discipleship training seminars in 2007-2008); Bob came in April 08 and did T4T trainings
GCPM 12: Host a regional CPM training conference in Ufa in 2008 led by Alberto Gonzales & Russell Kyzar from Cuba, Andy Leininger and Chris Carr from USR cluster (strategy proposal written and forwarded to Andy Dec 2006)(dropping from master plan in favor of having a Ural Mtn regional/cluster Acts 29 cp training with Bruce Carleton and Albert Nathaniel from India in Ufa May-June 2008; Russell Kyzar now the CEE Personalizer);had Acts 29
training in Ufa in May-June 08 with good participation from outside Ufa but poor from inside Ufa; our cluster is considering a cluster-wide Acts 29 event in late 2009 or 2010 possibly in Ekat. (possibly in 4th quarter 2012 in Ufa)
GCPM 13: Invite Rick Yount from SWBTS to present a “Created to Learn” seminar in summer 2008, 2009, or 2010 for a select group of Ufa/B’stan pastors/cp-ers and SS teachers as a platform for effecting worldview and paradigm change among RBU partners for a CPM mentality including a greater emphasis on training for life change and obedient discipleship rather than just teaching for knowledge (look at doing this in summer 2010 or 2011?)
GCPM 14: Partner as possible with Ufa Bible Church in their vision of planting at least one new church in each of B-stan’s approximately 47 districts; already have worked with them in the city of Sterlitamak to get a new church off the ground there as of Jan 07
GCPM15: Have Bauers and Jim work with Ufa Baptist Church to start ESL and
language Bible study group via Ufa Baptist Church on Thursday evenings in fall 2008; (had good consistent work on Thursdays, put on hold because of Bauer visa run to Riga during mid-Dec to mid-Jan, then UBC went thru a reorganization and now searching for right time to resume in conjunction w/ Bauer LL teaching schedules) GCPM16: Have Woodalls and Haas families start new BS groups via their connections with English institutes within 6 months of their arrival in Ufa
GCPM 17: Starting to implement T4T strategy in Grace Church in 4/13; planning a larger T4T training group to take place in Sept 2013 weekly
note: 2 new churches planted in Ufa in 2006, one new one in B-stan in 2006, at least 2 more new churches to be planted by end of 2007); Sipailovo group is on verge of being next new church; Ufa Baptist Church is preparing to start multiple new bible study groups in its members apartments starting fall 2008; Andrei Dzuba hopes to
start a new church by summer 2009 with our team’s help and two families from Ufa Baptist Church; he actually helped start a new church and co-pastored it for a few years and then became head pastor at HOP in July 2013, opening the door for greater missionality in that church and possibly the ass’n
Our end-vision
To see God glorified (& verify as much as possible) an indigenous, self-supporting, and reproducible church planting movement which has saturated the peoples of all Bashkortostan with hundreds of new
churches
Woodall/Haas families have finished FPO and back home in TX and GA; waiting on visa paperwork to come together; have asked them to be brainstorming and planning toward:
1. Website updates 2. Podcasts
3. FB groups for Ufa support/mobilization 4. Virtual p-walk work
5. Direct from field raw footage 6. Google Earth for mobilization
Additionally, Bauers have been given approval to return for 2nd term as of early 2010 and are scheduled to finish 2nd term approx. Aug 2011
June 19, 2009
Addendum May 18. 2011 (revised Jan 2012)
1. Woodalls and Haas’ finished their terms Apr 2011 with major accomplishments: maintained open door with ABIC by teaching English, tutoring at clubs, and supporting ABIC special projects; new
website/blogsite up and running; new virtual cp map for Ufa; team twitter acc’t up and running;
Soularium project pics taken and printed; started two new connection groups; 3 new video mobilization segments completed as of April 2011 w/ Blake working on 4th one stateside
2. Jesse Taylor finished his time in Ufa on May 23 having connected with at least 15 new students via his studies, funneled them toward existing team groups, and also toward Moldovan groups with which he has assisted; he started his own group in Mingazheva apt 2011; asked him to consider J-man route and return to Ufa after finishing bachelor’s degree at George Mason
3. Bauers finishing term as of June 22 2011
4. Inclusion of Hands On strategy starting fall 2010 and continuing into fall 2011/fall 2012; Kelly Warters and Shena McKinney served in this capacity fall 2010; Rachel Rima and Shannon Selby were Hands On workers in Ufa fall 2011
5. Kelly Warters on board @ J-girl as of July 2011; main roles:
A. Student at BGU studying Russian language 2-3 hours per weekday
B. Connect with students/faculty and involve them in existing evangelistic fellowship and bible study groups; start two groups of her own by end of 2nd year of service
C. Assist Carrs w/ homeschooling 2-3 hrs per weekday D. Serve as Team Prayer Advocate (TPA)
E. Assist with logistics for volunteer teams
6. Modifying some existing personnel requests toward 2+ISC approach per Larry Carnes’ email May 2011 7. Dialogued with Matt Burks about serving as J-man in Ufa starting spring 2012; will be at ILC Jan-Mar
2012 with arrival in Ufa anticipated for early April; main roles (not exhaustive): A. Student at BGU studying Russian language 3-4 hours per weekday
B. Connect with students/faculty and involve them in existing evangelistic fellowship and bible study groups; start two groups of his own by end of 2nd year of service with direct involvement of a local believer to whom the group can gradually be handed off for facilitation
C. Assist Carrs w/ homeschooling 3-4 hrs per weekday D. Assist with logistics for volunteer teams
E. Assist Chris with monthly Men’s Club meetings
