Compassion by Design has offered training helping church planters, pastors and outreach leaders to understand their community and its needs all around the nation, and the big challenge about making it available has been the problem of “time and space”—that is, only having one trainer available to deliver it and having to fly or drive to make it available. With the help of Shapevine, the Understanding Community Needs Training is now avilable online!
This is not your ordinary church oriented training, because it takes the ideas most common to the world of community service and makes them practical for local churches and their leaders. With eight video sessions, an invaluable extended introduction as well as more than 20 audio training sessions and additional downloadable forms, you will get all the help you need to complete a Community Needs Assessment for your new church or church going missional.
Click Here. Using innovative rich media technology, you can join David Mills as he discusses how to engage your community to increase access, form new relationships and establish your missional church as a meaningful participant in the community. One church planter in Kansas named Robert put it this way,
“If I didn’t have this tool available to me, it would have taken me 10 years to learn what I have already learned in the needs assessment process. If I ever plant again, I will do this at the very beginning of my new church process.”
Learn more about Needs Assessment as a First Step Tool for Church Outreach
Does the Shapevine podule training include a copy of the book “Compassion by Design” or does it need to be purchased separately?
Walt, the book is seperate and can be secured at http://www.compassionbydesign.org.