What is a Makeover?
The word “makeover” has been used for years in the beauty and fashion world. Recently I discovered a FREE MAKEOVER website where you can upload your photo and give yourself a virtual makeover. I had a lot of fun playing with a colleague’s photo on the site!
Anyway, the word makeover simply means to renovate or restore.* Makeovers of any sort have some common elements:
- A need or desire to change present conditions
- Professional analysis of what needs to be changed
- A review of available options for creating the desired end-result
- Renovation plans made and agreed upon
- Actual makeover implemented
What is a Missions Ministry Makeover?
A missions ministry makeover applies the same principle to a church’s overall missions ministry.
- It starts with a recognized need and desire to improve your church’s missions ministry
- Perhaps you have already sensed this need for your church
- Maybe this article has caused you to begin thinking about it
- Prayer for your church’s mission ministry can reveal needs and inspire a desire to improve
- Professional analysis is made of the present ministry to determine what a church should continue to do and what changes can be made to enhance its mission effectiveness
- The KBC Partnership Missions Office can help you analyze your KBC church’s mission ministry and member involvement FREE OF CHARGE
- We can serve your church as a personal mission’s ministry consultant
- The church is made aware of training and missions opportunities that can bring about desired results
- After an analysis is done, we can help you interpret the results
- We can suggest diverse resources that are available
- We can help you and your church be made aware of mission opportunities
- Plans are made and embraced by the entire congregation
- We can offer long range missions planning and goal setting
- We can help with the presentation of the plan to the congregation
- The actual MISSIONS MINISTRY MAKEOVER is deployed
- Our department has years of experience helping churches fulfill their commitment to the Great Commission
Does your church need a MISSIONS MINISTRY MAKEOVER?
Consider these questions -
Does your church . . .
- Involve at least 25% of its membership in mission activities
- (praying, giving, going)?
- Reach its missions offerings goals?
- Present the gospel to every type of person in your community in a culturally relevant way?
- Plan to start another church a church in the next 3 years?
- Go into the community to serve others?
- Hear missionary testimonies of missions impact in the field?
- Pray for Acts 1:8 missions to happen in your church?
- Teach and Preach a Biblical, theological stance on the need for missions?
- Share faith in Christ?
- Minister directly in ALL FOUR areas of Jesus’ missions challenge in Acts 1:8?
- Your Jerusalem (local)?
- Your Judea (state)?
- Your Samaria (U.S.)?
- Your Ends of the Earth (International)?
If you would like to schedule an assessment interview, you can respond to this blog, or contact the KBC Partnership Missons Office – email: partnership@kybaptist.org or call Toll Free in Kentucky: 866-489-3529 .
* makeover. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved June 30, 2009, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/makeover
