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 LEADTeams: Catalysts for Church Multiplication, Mobilization and Pastoral Support
What would you say to 24 hours of study, prayer, dreaming and strategizing mixed in with some fellowship and fun with others who share common ground with you?
If you're a pastor or a church planter in Converge MidAtlantic, you have the opportunity to join with other leaders in your region once each quarter for an overnight get together in a hotel, bed and breakfast or other site where you'll use the time for just such activities.
  LEADTeams are a tool of TeAmerica that are meant to strengthen relationships among pastors and leaders in each district and nationwide. They have a specific purpose.
The LEADTeam Purpose:
The purpose of LEADTeams is to Learn, Encourage, Achieve and Dream. During the 24 hour period when teams get together, activities are constructed to facilitate those purposes.
Each team is made up of six to 12 pastors or key leaders who will attempt to facilitate the planting of at least one church each year and mobilize (or revitalize) at least one other church each year. The individual team will have a designated Head Coach who is selected by the District Executive Minister and who will give direction to the team. Each team will have a designated TeAmerica Representative who will try to attend all major national meetings.
When the pastors get together, they follow a schedule that looks something like, but is not limited to this:
| 12 Noon |
Arrival, Greeting and Lunch |
| 2 – 4 PM |
Personal Sharing and Prayer Together |
| 4 – 5 PM |
Review Assignments: Coaching multiplication and mobilization assignments,
review parenting church lists, possible planters, new LEADTeam members,
possible locations for church plants, possible mobilization churches and other
denominational contacts |
| 5 – 8 PM |
Great Dinner and Fun Activity |
| 8 – 10 PM |
Dreaming
- What and where could we start one or more new churches in the coming year?
- What and where are one or more churches that we could help mobilize?
- How could we engage in Global Church Planting together?
- What independent church or other denomination could we assist?
- How can we facilitate mobilization and multiplication for all the cultural groups
represented in our area? |
| 7 – 8 AM |
Breakfast, Assigned Devotional & Prayer |
| 8 – 9 AM |
Review/Quiz of Learning Assignment from
– The Emotionally Healthy Church or
- Natural Church Development or
- Empowering Leaders through Coaching or
- Churches Planting Churchesor some other resource. |
| 9 – 11 AM |
Review Mobilization/Multiplication Strategy
Make Specific Assignments
Invite people to upcoming Assessment Centers, Coaching Quickstarts, Mobilization
Quickstarts and Mobilization Assessment. |
| 11:30 AM |
Closing Prayer Time |
| 12 Noon |
Homeward Bound |
Currently in Converge MidAtlantic, there are seven active LEADTeams. Their regions and coaches are as follows:
| LEADTeam REGION |
HEAD COACH
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| Central Ohio |
Charles Hill
New Hope Community Church
419.994.1112 |
| Northeast Ohio |
Gary Schroeder
Converge MidAtlantic
330.757.7970
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| NY/Western PA |
Loren Little
Conneautville Baptist Church
814.587.6121 |
| DC/Maryland |
Ron Crawford
New Vision Church
301.218.1555 |
| VA/NC |
Michael Henderson
New Beginnings Community Church
704.567.2900
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| Central/Eastern Pennsylvania |
Dan Nold
Calvary Baptist Church
814.238.0822
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| Pittsburgh |
Damian Williams
Steel City Church
412.760.5090
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All pastors are invited to participate in their regional LEADTeam. For further information, call the head coach listed or Converge MidAtlantic office at 330.757.7970.
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