Collegiate Missions Inside Atlanta’s Perimeter
Urban Atlanta Church Planting (UACP), a cooperative effort of the Atlanta Association of Southern Baptist Churches and the Atlanta Metro Baptist Association, desires to hire ten Collegiate Semester Missionaries who will lay the foundation for community transformation inside the perimeter I-285 (ITP) of Atlanta.
Approximately 878,000 people live ITP. Over 500,000 people living ITP have no religious affiliation; over 600,000 people ITP are not church members; and over 700,000 people living ITP do not attend any form of worship each week. Most of the ITP congregations 15 years of age or older are commuting congregations with little community interest or involvement. Some call these churches “museums with carpetbagger members.” There is a need for more than 700 culturally relevant, missionary congregations.
UACP has developed several options for a college student to be a missionary ITP during 2011.
9 MONTH PLAN (JANUARY-SEPTEMBER)
This project will be a nine month project beginning January 1, 2011, and continue through September 30, 2011.
Students will be provided up to up to $3,950 compensation plus housing and $500 food money while in Missional Living part of the 9 month plan.
The project will involve ten college students serving in teams of two as missionaries living in five areas ITP. The desired outcomes of this one year project are:
- Collegians will be discipled into being Jesus followers and will have training to disciple those living in their assigned areas.
- Collegians will have experienced missionary lifestyles in Atlanta, and this training could lead them to be effective missionary non-clergy in their work and community.
- Culturally relevant churches being started in the five communities that address the community needs discovered during the community exegesis.
During the year of service each student will:
January – May: Missional Learning
- Meet every other week with leadership.
- Participate in a orientation/team building weekend retreat in January.
- Experience how to be a missionary in the city as a Jesus follower.
- Discover his/her personality type and learn how to effectively work with people of different personality types.
- Experience how to exegete a community - seek to understand how Jesus would see this community and the people who do not know Him.
- Experience how to lead a small group.
June – September: Missional Living
- Meet every week with leadership.
- Move into their area, PrayerWalk the community, and exegete their community.
- Build relationships with the people in the community.
- Conduct servant evangelism activities.
- Begin a small group Bible study with the people in the community.
- Write a report.
- Participate in an exit interview with leadership.
SHORT TERM PLAN
Half day, one day, two day, four day, and five day missionary activities can be planed for groups of one to fifty.
For more information on either plan, contact
Tim Wolfe
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404.226.7382
Joel Harrison
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770.455.4877
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