Plan of Action

Many conferences and unions have already acted upon the Year of Evangelism vision and set goals to increase membership by ten percent. Some are reallocating much more money to empower pastors and members to do evangelism than ever before.

This summer was the launching period for this initiative. A promotional DVD has gone to all conferences to be shown at camp meetings and other large gatherings. This is the first division-wide attempt to create awareness among the membership. A second DVD was created for each church and pastor in North America. They were sent out to all the conferences later in the summer. It included a number of resources and suggestions for churches to do evangelism.

On January 18-21, the NAD Ministries Convention (www.comeseegotell.com) was held in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. For the first time, pastors were invited to attend, since the convention's main thrust was empowerment for pastors to do evangelism. Dozens of workshops were planned, mostly by pastors for pastors. The workshops presented practical, creative ways to do church-based evangelism. Every level of the church was encouraged to set faith-stretching funds to help interested pastors attend this convention.

Plans are under way to engage the entire division in a prayer thrust to impact every single church. More information on this will be forthcoming.

A new website, www.yearofevangelism.org, has been created for this initiative. There, leaders, pastors and members will have a chance to register their involvement either as active presenters of truth or as prayer warriors to intercede on the presenter's behalf.

Contents from the various DVDs will be included at the website, as well as links to helpful resources. Please visit it often for updates and information.