Religion Question

Evangelistic Outreach Project: Formulation Assignment Instructions

Overview

When considering our Lord’s mandate to spread the gospel to those who do not know Jesus as Lord and Savior, you are called upon to consider ways to tell others the good news of Jesus. Since our Lord has given you the mandate to communicate the gospel (cf. Mt. 28:18-20), you need to think of ways to best reach various people groups (i.e., larger groups of people who share a common heritage or geographical location) with the message of salvation. Formulating a strategy for an evangelistic outreach event and collaborating with church leaders regarding this strategy can help seize an opportunity to proclaim the gospel and evangelize those who need to believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior (cf. Col. 4:5).

Instructions

For this assignment, you are required to formulate a strategic plan for an evangelistic outreach event. Your plan must be four (4) pages in length and must include a minimum of two scholarly resources (see below) in addition to the course materials and the Bible as appropriately needed.

Before you begin to compose your strategic plan, you will need to consider the following:

Think of a target audience (i.e., a people group or a specific community of people) that is close to your heart.

Think of an event that could be used to present the gospel to these people.

Do not duplicate “outreach events” which have already taken place among your target audience.

Attempt to conceive of an event that is “outside the box” so that you are forced to consider new opportunities and strategies for impact. For example, you will to consider that large events that lack personal interaction do not typically yield the same long-term result as events in which the participants are able to connect with believers and receive personal invitations to further connection opportunities.

To compose your strategic plan, you will need to follow this structure:

Target Audience

Clearly define your intended audience (Include age, location, race, socioeconomic status, gender…etc.).

• Provide a detailed reason why you chose this audience.
• Research and identify specific demographic traits, needs, and/or characteristics of this audience. This is where you will cite your secular resources (as opposed to biblical and/or theological sources) as you include what you have learned from these sources in your plan.
• Outreach Event
• Describe the outreach event (e.g., a food drive, health fair, spring festival, family movie night, school supplies fundraiser, etc.).

Define the primary goal of the event. Make sure the goal is specific and measurable.

Identify the intended number of participants.

• Promotional Strategy

Identify and describe three venues you will use to promote the event (e.g., word of mouth, blog, newsletter, church bulletin, local television, newspaper ad, community posters, door-to-door invitations, etc.).

Create a promotional timeline that will show how far in advance you will begin to promote the event and how you will incorporate the three venues into your promotional strategy.

• Event Details

Provide an outline of the event schedule.

• Identify the number of necessary support staff/volunteers needed for the event.

Describe the intended setting/venue/location for the outreach event.

• Explain the role that prayer will have in the preparation, implementation, and follow-up initiatives.

Presenting the Gospel

• Describe how you plan to clearly and boldly integrate the gospel message into the event.

Identify a minimum of two potential obstacles you would consider that would hinder the gospel from being presented and/or received at the event. Explain how you would prepare for and/or respond to each obstacle.

• Bibliography
• As noted above, you must provide a list of a minimum of two scholarly sources that you used in composing your plan.
• Even though you already noted these earlier in the paper (i.e., Target Audience section), you are still required to list these according to APA, MLA, or Turabian style. Even though Wikipedia can help research various topics, please be advised that it is not a credible source for this assignment and cannot be used as one of the scholarly sources. You, however, could use Wikipedia to find credible scholarly sources that exist elsewhere possibly.
• You must use the Evangelistic Outreach Project: Formulation Template document to complete this assignment so as to help you format it correctly.

Research Project: Paper Assignment Instructions

• Overview
• This assignment is the culmination of the research, planning, and pre-writing you have compelted thus far in the course. The end product of this paper is a final draft of your paper for review by your instructor. Ultimately, this paper will answer the research question you identified in the first module by presenting you conclusions in the form of an organized argument that is supported by scholarly research. The instructions below explain precisely what is expected of the paper.