Fusion

I have spent the better part of the day with my dear friend, Vic Simpson, now a pastor in Maryland who led a number of church leaders in the Fusion and Evangelism seminars.  The Fusion Seminar is concerned with how to turn first time guests into fully engaged members of the church.  These seminars are a fairly new phenomena and we had to work out a few bugs in order to host it.

It was rewarding to have 22 people from as far away from Houston, TX attend.  This says that the material is needed and that the ministry of Church Leader Insights is becoming well known.  I was pleased that we are able to extend the ministry of Nelson Searcy, originator of the material, Vic Simpson, presenter of the material, and our church as distributor of the material.  I am prayerfully hopeful that we are impacting the kingdom of God from our little corner of Southwest Louisiana.

I have struggled for many years with how to close the "back door" of the church.  We have a wide front door, but once people have come through the door, what then?   Fusion provides some guidance.

As if to have the point made clear, one of our laypersons pointed out that in our church, a young person had checked boxes on a communication card desiring to be of service and no one had contacted her.  Ouch!  But it is something I need to hear. We all struggle finding people to do ministry.  But here is a gift handed to us, and we practically reject it.

Connecting people with ministry and service opportunities through our church is fulfilling to me as a church leader and for those involved.  They get a win, our church gets a win, and the kingdom of God is advanced. How could we go wrong?

It's been a long day, but a good day.  The real challenge is to implement the principles we studied.  Fortunately, I now have a team with which to do it.  Lesson for church leaders: Always encourage people to attend conferences and seminars with you.  When you implement new ministries and strategies, you have a support team already in place.