How to Pioneer: A five-step guide to getting started

By Dave Male

This five-part group study booklet is for local church communities who are contemplating setting up a pioneering church community, but are unsure how to get going. It opens up the wise insights and practical know-how of Dave Male’s book 'How to Pioneer' to the wider church, introducing the basics of pioneer ministry to PCCs and congregations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Church House Publishing
• Release date: Dec 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781781401293

Dave Male

David Male is the Church of England’s National Adviser for Pioneer Development.

Book preview

titlepage

Contents

Introduction: How to use this booklet and the accompanying animations

Session 1: You can do this

Session 2: Focusing on your mission (or keeping the main thing the main thing)

Session 3: Adapting to your context

Session 4: Creating Jesus-centred communities

Session 5: Enabling disciples of Jesus

The Lord’s Prayer

Copyright

Introduction:

How to use this booklet and the accompanying animations

Welcome to this short guide to How to Pioneer. There are five sessions to work your way through. Use the material as flexibly as you wish. You could meet weekly or maybe every two weeks or even monthly. It all depends on what works best for you as a group. The sessions are intended to work best with the pre-reading from the How to Pioneer book.

Alongside this Study Guide, five short animated films designed to accompany each session are also available from Church House Publishing. You can purchase these on DVD or access them online via www.chpublishing.co.uk/features/how-to-pioneer

This material works best if a small group of you are working your way through it together. You could gather people together who share your vision or might share that vision. Ideally this group should be between three and eight people. This might be a good way to explore possibilities together. But it may be wise to reassure people that they are not committing themselves to anything more than attending these five sessions. These sessions will help you work out together what God is calling you to start and will help individuals to decide if they want to be part of this.

Each of these sessions should take no more than 90 minutes to complete. They are designed to be led by the group members and anyone can lead the sessions even if they have never done anything like this before. It may be best to work out each week who is leading each section for the next week, so people have a chance to look over the material. Remember, this