Discovering God's Evangelism Strategy
with
International Crusades
for
Europe and Europeans

Workshop
Paris, France
May 12 – 15, 2000

Agenda:

Friday, May 12

§                       Travel to Paris by plane or car

§                       Upon arrival, go to the Hotel Daguerre

§         4:00 p    Session 1 at Avenue du Maine church

·        Welcome & Introductions of new people

·        Scripture

·        Report from Gary Baird regarding last year’s “understanding”

·        Discussion

§         7:00 p    Dinner at nearby restaurant

§         9:00 p    Update from Etienne on God's activities in France (hotel)

Saturday, May 13

§         8:00 a    Breakfast at hotel

§         9:00 a    Session 2 - What has happened since our last meeting

·        Scripture

·        Update from each person on God's activities in your country/area

à        Italy

à        Hungary

à        Holland

à        Scotland

à        Spain

à        Scandinavia

à        Portugal

à        England

§         11:00 a  Session 3 – Update on IC

·        Scripture

·        Report on IC Crusades results globally

·        Report on IC plans and projections for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 and beyond

·        Season of Prayer

§         12:30 p  Lunch with the Executive Leadership of French Baptist Union

§           2:00 p  Session 4 - Hosting a campaign

·        IC's standard strategy and approach for conducting a campaign

·        Discovering what should be added for Europe

·        Discovering what should be changed for Europe

·        Discovering what is not applicable for Europe

§           4:00 p  Session 5 - The name for the work

·        How to communicate a change

§           7:00 p  Dinner & fellowship at the Taverne du Sargent Recruiter

§         Devotional time (led by member of group) & bedtime

Sunday, May 14

§         Morning devotional (led by member of group)

§         Tour of Paris

§         Lunch together near church

§           2:00 p  Session 6 – Mobilizing Europe to go

·        What is working

·        What does not seem to work

·        How should we develop a plan?

§           4:00 p Session 7 – The future of this group

·        Should we continue meeting?  If so,

à        How often?  Next meeting?  When? Where? Who should come?

·        What is the role and purpose?

§         Dinner and fellowship together

§         Informal time of sharing of experiences in each country

§         Farewell devotional time (led by member of group)

§         Devotional time (led by member of group)

§         Bed time

Monday, May 10

§         Day is free for your own activities

§         Return to your home city

plan/map

Where:  At the Avene du Maine Baptist Church in the Montparnasse  district of Paris.  Accomodations are provided at the Daguerre Hotel near to the church, which is also near the train station, Gare Montparnasse.  Pictures of the hotel are available on the Internet at:

http://www.globe-market.com/h75014daguerre.htm.  The airport bus from Charles de Gaulle and from Orly comes to the Montparnasse station.  The hotel is a 5 minute walk.

 

 

Language:  Most of the time we will use English as the common language.  We will prepare discussion documents and papers and send them to you, so that you can make translations of them before you come, if you would like.  Please do not let English language difficulties worry you!  We will see to it that everyone understands.  It will be like Pentecost!

Projected Attendees:

·         Ettore Zerbinatti, Italy

·         Jose Carmet, Spain

·         Robert Breustedt, Scotland

·         Bryan Doyle, England

·         Etienne Lhermenault, France

·         Tivadar Macher, Hungary

·         H. L. "Luc" Nieman, Netherlands

·         Antonio Figueira, Portugal

·         Alf O. Kavli, observer from Scandinavia

·         Gary Baird, President, International Crusades

·         Francisco Nunez, International Vice-president, International Crusades

·         Jerry Byrd, Area Vice-president, Western Europe, International Crusades

The Need

 

IC Region of Europe

Churches

Baptists

Population

Baptists

Est. Other Believers

Lost

Iberia

131

12,399

49,289,000

0.03%

0.25%

99.72%

49,152,611

West Central

1,000

114,702

239,496,000

0.05%

0.48%

99.47%

238,234,278

Scandinavia

419

31,413

23,962,000

0.13%

1.31%

98.56%

23,616,457

Britania

2,823

188,263

58,955,000

0.32%

3.19%

96.49%

56,884,107

East Central

378

18,590

43,858,000

0.04%

0.42%

99.53%

43,653,510

Totals

4,751

365,367

415,560,000

0.09%

0.88%

99.03%

411,540,963

Europe is less evangelized than China, Africa or South America!


For more information….


Jerry B Byrd

(972) 569-9006

JerryB@ConsultingPros.com