Get Their Name: Coordinator's Guide: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships

By Bob Farr and Kay Kotan

The Coordinator’s Guide is twofold, helping the pastor (or other
leader) to implement worship/sermons, and a congregational study
experience. It contains worship helps for each week of the series,
including sermon plans and instructions for using the video
illustrations. It also includes instructions for implementing the
all-congregation study, along with tips for next steps—ways to follow up
after the month-long experience has ended.
Church leaders and members should all read the original Get Their Name book during the month of this church-wide experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Release date: May 17, 2016
• ISBN: 9781501825446

Bob Farr

Bob Farr is director of congregational excellence in the Missouri Conference of The United Methodist Church. Frequent speaker and seminar leader, he is also the author of Get Their Name and Renovate or Die: 10 Ways to Focus Your Church on Mission, both co-authored with Kay Kotan, published by Abingdon Press.

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GET THEIR

NAME

Grow Your Church

by Building New Relationships

Coordinator’s Guide

Bob Farr

Kay Kotan

GET THEIR NAME COORDINATOR’S GUIDE:

GROW YOUR CHURCH BY BUILDING NEW RELATIONSHIPS

Copyright © 2016 by Abingdon Press

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ISBN 978-1-5018-2543-9

Scripture quotations unless noted otherwise are from the Common English Bible. Copyright © 2011 by the Common English Bible. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www.CommonEnglishBible.com.

Scripture quotations from The Message. Copyright © by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

Our thanks to Christie Latona, Cathy Bien, the Baltimore-Washington Conference, and The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection for their generosity in sharing video content for this study.

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MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

GET THEIR NAME: GROW YOUR CHURCH BY BUILDING NEW RELATIONSHIPS

A STUDY AND WORSHIP PLAN FOR OUTWARD-REACHING CONGREGATIONS

Congratulations! You have taken the first step in helping your church grow by building new relationships with new people. This study and sermon series, based on the book Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships, is designed to help your congregation first understand why just inviting people to church is no longer an effective way to reach the unchurched. Secondly, it is designed to give your congregation the tools they individually and collectively need in order to build new relationships with new people. These concepts may be very new or different for some in your congregation. Lead with grace, but also with high expectations for all. After all, Matthew 28:19 calls for all our churches to make new disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. This study is designed to help congregations and Christians do just that!

When an entire congregation engages in a shared topic for study, and it is coupled with the weekly sermon series, the opportunity for enormous momentum is created. When everyone is on the same page, everyone is moving, thinking, praying, and studying all in the same direction. When the church illustrates a collaborative effort, it allows the Holy Spirit to move more freely and readily. If you have some existing groups push back on joining the study, you might help bring them along when they understand this possibility.

May you be blessed as you lead your congregation on this journey to reach new people for Jesus Christ!

CONTENTS

Planning

Suggested Timelines

Promotion

Worship Design Team

Worship Overview for Design Team

Worship Overview for Music Team and Worship Leaders

Sermon Outlines

Appendix

Tips and Helps for Facilitating the Get Their Name Group Study

Participant Workbook

PLANNING

In order to have a successful sermon series and congregational study, planning ahead is essential. The larger your church is, the more time you will most