New Evangelism Class

Action Plan

When: Starting, by the Grace of God, on the new Coptic Calendar year, September 18, 2005, at one of the following suggested timings: Sunday from 12:30 to 1:30 PM during Sunday Schedule Program ,or Friday 7:00 to 8:30 PM before the Youth meeting ,or Saturday form 5:30 to 7:00 PM before Asheiah prayer or Sunday from 7:00 to 8:00 PM
Objectives: We would all like to learn how to preach, how to evangelize, how to approach people with courage and without embarrassment, how to start conversation and how to be persuasive. We need to know the step-by-step approach, methods and techniques for preaching, when to push, when let go, what to answer, and what to avoid. Should we tell people about the fear of hell or the beauty of heaven? We need to learn how to give people hope for forgiveness and salvation by showing them the love of Jesus. We need to memorize key bible verses for certain issues. We need to understand other denominations and religions and know how to approach each one of them.

Who Can Participate?

• Graduates from Pre-Servant class that are not serving in Sunday School.
• Members that are currently active in the evangelism group
• Members from the congregation that show interest in this service and want to learn.
• Select Youth of all ages that are touched by evangelism.
• People from mixed marriages are invited.

Course Content - Curriculum:

• Bishop Youssef’s 26 Lessons on the web, www.suscopts.org.
• Available books about missions such as Theology of Mission.
• Studies of how St. Peter and St. Paul evangelized in the early church.
• Studies of Missionaries in Africa, China and south Asia.
• Web sites such as Evangelism Explosions, etc.
• Bible (Salvation, Sacraments, Judgment, heaven, love, forgiveness…).
• Studies of different approaches used by other evangelists in general.
• Research and articles.

Recommendations:

• Have dedicated servants for the class and freeing them from other commitments, unless they can manage 2 services.
• The class will support and co-operate with the other 6 Evangelism Committees (Brochures, Bible Study, Organization, events, etc).
• Integrate evangelism in Sunday school and youth program by preparing topics and presentations that promote its awareness and zeal.
• Invite guest speakers that are experts in preaching.
• Promote good coordination between the churches.
• Establish an Evangelism library.
• Promote evangelism songs with music to be used during preaching.
• Members will communicate via the existing chat group.

Specific Tasks:

• Train students to specialize in dealing with specific denominations, such as: Buddhism, Hinduism, Mormonism, Jehovah Witness, Islam and Protestants.
• Translation of articles from Arabic of Coptic orthodox origin to English and French.
• Simulate and perform rehearsal of preaching.
• Start Bible study.
• Plan for a mini Evangelism Conference.

Existing Evangelism Activities:

Preparation of St Mary’s Procession and other occasions, such as Good Friday, Easter, the feast of the Cross, St John the Baptist, Nayroose, etc.

Preparation for preaching in the Shopping Centre.

Preaching to the Church neighborhood and workplace.

Serving individuals (one-on-one). Please contact Soheir or Talaat Atalla at (450) 445-3473 if you are interest.