Establishing a Church
Restoring the Foundations Ministry Program

This page is for the pastor of a local church that is considering establishing a church Restoring the Foundations Ministry (RTFM) program. We want to share with you things to be aware of and some ways that we can help you.

Like a Family

Establishing a ministry program is a lot like establishing a family. It is built upon relationships, and they must be maintained and worked on in order for the program to be fully what God desires. Thus, to complete the establishment of a self-sufficient, self-reproducing, self-maintaining ministry program, a few years of building is usually necessary, with yearly training periods and bi-monthly visits by a training team for oversight and advanced training of the ministry teams. Thus, it is important to know that God is speaking to you, and that your heart really is directed toward this type of a program. Once this point is passed, the ministry program becomes just another department of the church, there to serve the people, and to help them move ahead in God's Sanctification process.

Ways to Help

We have three key ingredients that can be used to help establish a RTFM program:

• Seminars: As we conduct seminars, churches can have their leadership and ministry teams receive intensive teaching, training, demonstration, group ministry, activation, and impartation within a short time.
  
  
• Training: God is sending quality people, both couples and singles, with like heart and similar vision, to join this ministry. We have trained and prepared these teams to minister to leadership within the Body of Christ, to train RTF ministry teams, to train trainers of RTF ministry teams, and to establish ministry programs within the local church. This includes ministry and training teams, helping to raise up a local oversight team, holding periodic meetings with the church RTF teams, and being available for ongoing oversight of and consulting with the resident oversight team.
  
  
• Resources: The resources that we have produced, and are producing, can be a major assist in the establishing of the church RTFM program.

Levels of Involvement

It is a major commitment to establish a Restoring the Foundations Ministry (RTFM) program. It is similar to creating a new department in your church. But you can accomplish it if you can commit just one to three percent of your church budget to the RTFM program. Proclaiming His Word offers three levels of involvement, with different degrees of interaction and funding, to match each church situation. We will join with you to prayerfully consider which level best fits for your church.

• Level One: Providing and Imparting
  Your church may partake of our resources and/or attend and send teams to the various seminars that we offer: RTF Healing/Deliverance,  RTF Activation, Advanced, and Training/Teacher seminars. You can send teams to the CI/PHW Healing House, both for ministry and for training. You can use your local church leadership to oversee and to raise up the ministry teams, an oversight team, and to orchestrate their development.
  
  
• Level Two: Assisting and Equipping
  Proclaiming His Word can come to your church to conduct an Restoring the Foundations Healing/Deliverance Seminar. This will benefit you and your people, as well as the surrounding region. Your people will become acquainted with God's desire for their freedom and healing, the way(s) that He has provided for us to receive it, and they will experience some degree of freedom and healing (some a little, some a lot) during the ministry time.
  The next step would be to conduct an Restoring the Foundations Activation Seminar for a smaller group, focusing on the church leadership, cell group leaders, care group leaders, and the prospective ministry teams.
  Following the seminar, a ministry/training team would come to your church and counsel the lead ministry team (the likely oversight team), and train them as they counsel other potential teams and/or leadership within the church. Depending on the model of training you choose, it can take from one to three weeks to train one team. However, using a "rotation" model, three teams can be trained in three weeks if each team can be involved full time in the training for one of the three weeks. Much depends on how easily all those involved can coordinate their schedules.
  Local church leadership would then be responsible to oversee the development of the ministry program. If you desire, we can have a team revisit you occasionally, to provide further teaching on selected topics (i.e., ministering to people coming out of the occult/witchcraft, out of homosexuality, out of false identity, etc.), and/or to "sit in" with your teams while they are ministry to provide additional fine tuning of their ministry skills.
  
  
• Level Three: Building and Establishing
  This level requires the most commitment by you and by us. We would enter into an agreement with you to be responsible for the oversight of developing a ministry program within your church. We, and the teams working with us, would become a temporary (two to three years), part time, department of your church. Besides all of the activities discussed above (in Levels One and Two), we would continue with periodic visits to supervise, impart additional teaching and training, and to initiate the multiplication of new teams. We would eventually focus on training new teams and maturing them, on training experienced teams to become trainers, and on training an oversight team. We would do all of this with close coordination and submission to you and the vision of the church. Our goal would be to support you as you lead your congregation in becoming healed, matured, equipped, and fruitful. Most of all, to help them establish a closer and closer relationship with the Lord.

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