Looking to Week Five—Outreach Week!

As future DTS staff and leaders, part of our training is to pull together all of the practical things we are learning and implement them in our own mini-outreach week. We’ll start next Monday and keep things local—within about an hour from Lakeside. We’ll still have lectures Tuesday and Thursday, but all other times (including the weekend after) can be used for outreach.

As an exercise in listening to what God wants to do in any given place, the leaders of Equip did not plan our outreach for us. Instead, we’ve been spending our twice-a-week class intercession times to pray about what God wants us to do. At the end of each session today we all talked about what we heard God saying. Here’s a patched-together picture of what the white board looked like:



We connected the dots a little bit and split it into four major themes:
1. Local businesses/people—spending time talking & offering help
2. Local church—picnic, VBS, kids, balloons, etc
3. Local arts—coffee shops, music, art shows
4. Camping (at the hot springs nearby)

Between now and Monday we’ll be splitting into groups and researching and planning. Some groups (Church group and Art group) will be planning events, while the other two will be more spontaneous and will be asking God for specific people he wants us to talk to.

We’ll give more details as we know them and let you know how it goes!