1. Internal
a. Host/facilitate your Neighborhood meeting weekly.
b. Ensure that frequent communication (at least weekly) is made with your Neighborhood members. Check on their spiritual, emotional and physical wellbeing.
c. Ensure that care is administered to those who are hurting in the Neighborhood.
d. Ensure that missional and fellowship activities are a regular part of your Neighborhood activities.
e. Identify potential Neighborhood leaders (as well as pastoral and administrative people) in your Neighborhood.
f. Encourage/exhort those who have not been through City Gate to sign up for it.
COAH Discipling Progression Plan (Wednesday nights beginning in October)
We want everyone who is committed to being a staff member at COAH to go through this training.
2. External
a. Grow your Neighborhood
b. Attend Neighborhood leadership meetings – share your ongoing vision for your Neighborhood
c. Seek missional activities with other Neighborhoods
Grow your Neighborhood Context:
1. COAH strategy for “church” is simple – a) powerful worship, b) accountable relationships within the body, c) Sharing Christ through serving the community
2. Neighborhoods are a key element of the COAH strategy. They are the means for accountable relationships and serving the community.
3. A small percentage of COAH attendees are in Neighborhoods.
Opportunities to increase Neighborhood participation:
1. 10 Minute Party follow-up – names from those who come to the 10 minute party are taken. Each person receives a copy of the COAH Neighborhood list. Dave follows up with a ‘welcome, we are glad you came’ e-mail. Misty then calls them. When she calls, she can ask which Neighborhood fits their schedule/interest. Misty then forwards the persons name to the chosen Neighborhood leader for follow-up.
2. City Gate participants – during City Gate (probably toward the end) the COAH Neighborhood concept would be presented. City Gate attendees would be asked to make a commitment to a Neighborhood. Names for each Neighborhood would be sent to each Neighborhood leader for follow-up.
3. Sunday worship – Neighborhood leaders (and Neighborhood participants) engage someone each week about being in a Neighborhood. Each Neighborhood would have a ‘business card’ with Neighborhood information to hand to those who are interested.
4. Neighborhood ‘Fair’ – On a few Sundays a year, all Neighborhoods would have a representative and a signup station before and after worship to facilitate getting additional people into Neighborhoods.
5. OTHERS?