Longing to Share the Life-changing Truth

Charlo Santorcas Deniega

There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. These words in Luke chapter 15 explains well the reason that I want to reach out for our lost brothers, they are like the prodigal son.

I love my father and mother, together with my brothers and sisters. I don’t like them to miss out the true happiness that God, our father in heaven offers. So I shared who He is to them. Since first year college, the time when I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior, everything changed. The eternal perspective in me was born.

Kuya Arnaldo Ganaba, the former editor-in-chief of our school publication shared to me the Four Spiritual Laws. He was doing room to room evangelism that time and I showed no interest at first. But because of his perseverance, he finally won me and many of my friends that mostly became student leaders. He was smart in choosing influential but little bit crazy people. I became a Student Government President.

I shared the good news to my schoolmates and many of them joined our cell group, fellowships, and missions everywhere.

Though our careers have led us to different places, the passion kept us connected and to always yearn to share the life changing truth, the word of God. Today, I am discipling nine young professionals.

1.

Engr. Jimmy Joaquin, SM City Resident Engineer

2.

Engr. Francis John Clavano, Davao Light and Power Co. (Mover)

3.

Engr. Lito Pangolibay, Davao City Water District

4.

Engr. Danny Soriano, Davao City Water District

5.

Mr. Hermis Malto, School Director (Mover)

6.

Mr. Ryan Edillon, Salesman

7.

Mr. Elmo Bontuyan, Bank Manager

8.

Mr. Rando Panerio, Salesman (Mover)

9.

Mr. Keith Franco, Businessman

My constant longing is to actively communicate the love of God to everyone, especially the young professionals in the market place. I envision a community of professionals and businessmen worshipping God through their chosen field of expertise. Everyone is passionately involved in cell groups and persistently applies the principles in the bible - a community where everyone offers their works to the Father in heaven and craves to serve their fellowmen.

Maximize Digital Strategies

Wait, how can we maximize digital strategies if we are to model all the time?

We have ikan2 Philippines videos on youtube. We have Apps on evangelism & discipleship. These are all very useful. To model win, build, send doesn't mean neglecting the resources we have to have greater movement results.

Here are some tips to maximize these resources:

1. Promote the sites/ Apps or links that help reinforce what we MAWL with or train to our disciples.

2. When we "Leave" our disciples (in MAWL Process), we may only meet them once a month or even once in a quarter because of proximity (that is, if your KVs live miles away/ in another island). We then maximize Skype Discipleship and the online resources we have like ikan2 Philippines & other evangelism & discipleship related websites that has a CCC DNA.

3. In our follow up/discipleship meeting (weekly/ every other week/ every month), you may also use the videos in your practice time (in the 3/3 Process). Then you can go out together for actual application.

Having 33 Campuses, Possible?

A Catalytic Staff having 33 campuses, possible?

A big YES! It's possible! How? This staff is working with ccc Alumni who committed to become KVs. They were their disciples from different campuses. After they graduate, they committed to use some of their time to help build movements on campuses, after office work or during their "no work day". Some alumni work as teachers and maximize some of their time on campus by building multiplying disciples. The principle is still there, empowering the students to lead campus movements by coaching them. Staff & Alumni continue to do evangelism & discipleship using the 3/3 Process.

The Process, Standards & JD of Core Leaders

What's the Process of Selecting Core Leaders? What's their JD?

1. Make sure to have a Standard Core Qualifications and Job Description (see Sample below). Your staff team may agree on the standards. This is flexible based on your context or stage of the movement.

2. Based the standards set, brainstorm on the potential, initial leaders you have. Make a list of the potential Core Leaders. Trim down the list up to the desired number of leaders you need, just enough in proportion to your existing involved students. For example, if total involved is 10, you may just need 3 Core Leaders.

3. Interview the students to know them further and an opportunity to cast vision in leading fellow students to build a movement on campus. This is also part of leadership development of our students.

4. Finalize the result by talking to the students or writing to them if you see it more appropriate. Normally, when we reach the Interview part, somehow it's sure already that the persons are being considered to become part of the Core Leadership. We want to make it formal so students will take it seriously as well.

5. When they say YES to the challenge, Leadership Development Coaching for them needs to take place on a regular basis, say every other week or monthly. What is normally discussed in coaching?

A. Their Heart as A Leader
B. Leadership on Campus (prayer, evangelism, follow up/discipleship)
C. Their JD
D. Core Qualification

Who is primarily responsible to coach the Core Leaders? Staff Point person or Campus Team Leader. Or other staff as agreed by the team. As these Core Leaders are growing and more independent on staff (which should be our goal), the style of coaching may shift. The Team Leader/Staff Point person will just meet the point person (or Student Coordinator) from among the Core Leaders. Core Leaders Point person will be the one to meet his fellow Core Leaders for regular meeting on how to advance the movement on campus.

These Core Leaders are still being discipled. It should be emphasized that everyone in the movement are part of the discipleship that is committed to movement building through evangelism and discipleship that would result to multiplication. This is the means to see movements taking place on campus to help fulfill the Great Commission.

----Sample CORE QUALIFICATION--

CCC SERVANT CORE LEADER’S QUALIFICATIONS

A CCC Servant Core Leader is a disciple (someone who is learning/growing to become like Christ) who has accepted the challenge and has committed to serve God by providing leadership in the CCC ministry in his/her campus.

A CCC Servant Core Leader has been a Christian for at least one year, is already involved in a Christian church, and has been a CCC disciple for at least 6 months.

A CCC Servant Core Leader possesses the following qualities:

Faithfulness
• demonstrates willingness to trust God in different areas of his life (physical, social, emotional, etc.)
• has a growing prayer life (personal and corporate)
• has strong biblical convictions and consistently lives out these convictions

Availability
• is consistently visible in movement activities in the campus (prayer times, meetings, Bible studies, training and other activities)
• initiates/takes leadership on responsibilities for movement activities within the campus and, if needed, outside the campus (NLTC, LTIs, OJs, etc.)
• no leadership commitment in other groups that can conflict to the interest of the movement

Teachability
• has eagerness to learn more and grow more in different areas of his life (e.g. reads good books or attends seminars for personal development)
• humbly accepts correction, rebuke or constructive criticism from others
• demonstrates openness to new ideas and input from others

Heart for God
• loves God and seeks to please God above all else
• has a deep desire to know God more and obey God all the time
• consistently spends time with God in prayer and personal Bible study (QT)
• has good life witness (submits to God ordained authority, does not cheat, etc.)

A Leader
• consistent in follow up
• was trained in evangelism
• demonstrates love for people and has a growing personal ministry
• is consistent in personal evangelism (willing to witness to at least 3 persons per week)
• has existing follow up/disciples

A Good Student
• not necessarily an honor student but has good academic standing (no failing grade the previous semester)
• is committed to strive for excellence in all that he does for God's glory
• is not a late comer to his classes, does not cut classes
• is able to balance his time between ministry, academics, church, family and personal life
• knows his order of priorities (that is, academics comes first before ministry. Exclusive relationship is discouraged)

Note:
To ensure a sustainable leadership, Senior Core and Junior Core must be recruited. Senior Core has at least 1 year involvement in the ministry. Junior Core has at least 6 months.

---Sample Core JOB DESCRIPTION-


Title: STUDENT COORDINATOR/ Core Leader


Purpose: To help provide over-all direction of the campus movement activities (prayer, evangelism, discipleship)

Scope: Leadership Team (Core Leaders) and the Campus
         Movement

Areas of Responsibilities, Authorities and SOPs:

1. Call and preside all the core leaders meetings.

Authority:  ACT and Inform
SOP:
  a. When the agenda is consulted with the Campus Team Leader for Coaching

  b. When the Campus Plan is constantly reviewed.

2. Represent the local movement.

Authority:  ACT and Inform
  SOP: Attended the meeting or any functions well-prepared (campus movement or school organizations if recognized)

3. Oversee the Core Leaders for their designated tasks on payer, evangelism & discipleship.
 
Authority:  ACT and Inform
   SOP: When proposed plans are checked/given feedback for direction

4. Oversee the core leaders for their designated tasks to rally fellow students in prayer, evangelism & discipleship
 
Authority:  ACT and Inform
   SOP: When proposed plans are checked/given feedback for direction

Working Relationship:

I work closely with: Team Leader/Staff Point person

Working closely with me: fellow Core Leaders

--Sample Core Leaders COMMITMENT---

COMMITMENT

I believe that God has called me
to take part In helping fulfil the Great Commission
through my Involvement
with Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC).

After prayerfully considering the challenge given me,
I commit to serve God as a Servant Core Leader.

I believe that it is only God who can make me
the kind of leader that He wants me to be.
Hence, I am willing to trust Him
to produce in me the qualities
required of a CCC Servant Core Leader.


_________________________________
Signature over Printed Name


__________________
Date Signed

Student-Led Movements on the First day on Campus

Do we really need three years or more to develop student-led movements?

Would you believe with me that even during your first year on campus or even on your first day on campus, it can be student-led?

You may say, it's easy for the catalytic because the staff is not always in the campus because of limited time. It does not guarantee. Student-led doesn't mean the absence of staff. Staff may not be around but dictates the students what to do on campus through distant communication. Staff may not always be there but still controls the movement by having a plan for students to execute. It's not student-led. It's student-ran.

So what is exactly the picture of student-led even at the very start of the campus ministry?

Phase of a Movement: Penetration

- Staff shares the gospel (4SL) to the non-christians. (At this very moment, we are already modeling evangelism).

- Staff shares the gospel (4SL) to the christians too. He may say, "Let me continue reading this booklet so that you will know how to share it with others too. (This is already part of Modeling).

- During the gospel presentation, some students may pray to receive Christ (PRC). As staff, we need to be sensitive to the Spirit's leading. At the end of the 4SL, it states, "If this booklet has been meaningful and helpful to you, please share it with someone else."

- Staff may say to the Christian contacts and to those who just did PRC: "How would you respond to this encouragement/invitation to share the gospel with others too?" Staff, again, needs to be sensitive to the leading of the spirit, observing the response of the students.

- If the response is positive like, "I think I need to share this with others too", Staff may ask a follow up question, "To whom would you like to share this?", then "Who else?" and "By when?" Note: Staff should be open to whatever responses.

- Encourage the students to join a small group to know Jesus better & grow in a personal relationship with God through Jesus. He may use verses such as:

(Illustration on Newborn Babies, AIC Training Part)
"And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation," -1 Peter 2:2

(Illustration on Friendship, Intermediate Training)
"So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away - look, what is new has come!" -2 Corinthians 5:17

-On the next meeting, as the students go back for follow up, staff applies the 3/3 Process:

1. Pastoral Care-- how are you?
2. Worship-- use 1-2 simple verses to worship God (adoring God for who He is)
3. Accountability-- share about an experience of sharing the gospel from the last meeting's goal (when asked to whom will they share), if they were not able to share, it's ok. Be sensitive.
4. Vision Casting -- connect their personal experience/lessons learned to the Great Commission. This is a progressive challenge for them to become Key Volunteers.

Example: "Wow, it's encouraging to hear your stories. It's not easy indeed to share the gospel to your friends, but you stepped out in faith and God is pleased with what you did. You help change the world one man at a time. Jesus called every believer to help fulfill His Great Commission and you obey His call. This is great! How would it look like if you reproduce yourself to more students who will do the same? What would be the picture of Jesus' followers in your campus? (Pause) Allow silence. They may respond too.

Or, if they were swallowed by their fear to share the gospel, you may say, " It's okay. As we learn to know deeper who Jesus is and His love for us, God will enable us to share His
Love and Forgiveness to many
People. How would it look like if our fellow students hear the gospel? How would it change our campus? Our society, our nation? "

5. Transition to Follow Up Lesson. You may say, "As we desire to build a movement in our campus, it won't happen without the help of God. We need Him as our guide. We need to grow deeper in Him. This is the purpose of your follow up lesson. (Give out Booklets 'Beginning Your New Life in Christ.'

You need not finish the lesson. You may also ask them to "finish the lesson as assignment." With this, you are helping them become self-feeder. You may continue the lesson (with their answers/thoughts on your next meeting). Again, the goal of every lesson is helping them become self-feeders.

6. Practice. You may have a short training on sharing the 4SL. Another option is going out together as you model sharing the gospel.

7. Before parting ways, set goals again on evangelism. Staff should not dictate or set the goals for them. Staff simply asks the goals from the students. Staff should set goals on his personal evangelism too. Then pray together for the goals set.

This is STUDENT-LED at the early stage of the movement. As the number of students who share their faith is growing, it's appropriate to select a pool of leaders among them to represent student leadership to rally fellow students. They can be an encouragement to fellow students as well. This pool of student leaders (Core Leaders) can lead in providing an environment of prayer and evangelism on campus. There should be a point person among the Core Leaders who will be regularly coached by a staff point person. Core leader point person (student coordinator) will take the lead with his fellow Core Leaders on how to provide an environment of prayer and evangelism. Staff continue to do evangelism & discipleship by MAWLing the WIN BUILD SEND.

Difficult to see SLM on a Base Campus

It's difficult to have Student-Led Movements on a Base Campus. It's only for Catalytic.

It's a BIG "NO!"

How does student-led movements look like in a Base Campus?

Staff consistently shares the gospel to the non-christians & disciples them to multiply; finds & mobilizes existing christians to share the gospel, disciple & multiply (WIN, BUILD, SEND), applying the MAWL process.

Students under the chain of the staff share the gospel to the non-christians & disciple them to multiply ; finds & mobilizes existing christians to share the gospel, disciple & multiply (WIN, BUILD, SEND), applying the MAWL process.

Staff selects the initial pool of leaders (Core Leaders) to rally fellow students on reaching their campus for Jesus. Core Leaders plan together. Staff point person coaches Core Leaders' Point Person as they provide leadership for the campus. That is, Staff point person is asking good questions to the Core Leaders' point person about their needs to succeed or leadership development they need to become effective leaders on campus. As the movement grows, Core Leaders select successors (Junior Core Leaders) to continue the leadership on campus. Senior Core Leaders coach Junior Core Leaders.

Staff & Students continue to do evangelism & discipleship to see multiplication happen until there's enough movers and multipliers (1% of the school population) to saturate a campus. A campus is saturated if everyone has heard the culturally-relevant gospel presentation 3 or more times.

Staff view students as co-laborers in the field or vice versa.

Busy Opening Campuses? Not Multiplying?

"I'm a Catalytic Staff. I'm busy opening campuses, so it's hard to multiply, no time to multiply."

What does it really mean, "opening of campuses?"

Well, opening a campus is like saying, "starting a new ministry on a campus." So what does it take for me to start a new ministry on a new target area (campus)?

If I would start a new ministry on campus (opening a campus), I need to be ready with the "Campus Decoding." This is about getting all campus information necessary for me to get started like the courses offered, the names of the Deans, scholars, student council officers, campus typical schedule, where the the influential students hang around, population, belief, spiritual climate, culture, etc.

The initial information I get about the campus will not surely be enough until I get into the actual field experience. That is literally going out to interact with and share the gospel to the students. We need to look for the Key Volunteers (KVs) and we know that the KVs are the ones who commit to help fulfill the Great Commission by reaching their fellow students on campus to build Spiritual Movements. But how can we really know if a person is a right KV or help him become one?

There are so many practical examples based on the actual field experience of our fellow staff doing catalytic ministry:

1. Asking Ministry Partners, church mates & friends about the existing Christian or Non-Christian contacts (men of peace ) who study on that campus or campuses they cover.

2. They meet and challenge these "potential KVs" to see if they will be the ones whose heart the Lord is already at work to help fulfill the Great Commission by building a movement on campus.

3. Here are the prerequisites of challenging potential KVs:

A. Make sure that they are really christians (having a personal relationship with God). How?
Share the gospel (4SL) to them. You will know then if they have received Christ as Savior and Lord and assured of their salvation. By doing this, you are at the same time communicating a vision (modeling) to reach out to the lost.

2. They commit to grow in a relationship with God by being part of the follow up group.

So how can we help them the moment they said YES to the challenge? It's true that many of those who said yes to the challenge don't know how to really do it. They have the heart and the vision for it, but they just don't know how. This is where our MAWLing comes in. What will we do with our 3 hours stay on campus before going to another campus?

We need to have a weekly 1 hour meeting with him for prayer, worship, accountability, vision casting, follow up bible study (FU 1-7), practice (sharing the gospel - theoretical & actual), goal setting ( ie., number of people to share the gospel with) & prayer. This is applying the 3/3 process. What will I do with the remaining two hours? I can still go around the campus, pray, share the gospel, interact with the student leaders, professors and look for opportunities to share the gospel ( with students/KVs with me). With this, we are increasing our pool of initial leaders (KVs) on campus. As we regularly meet with them, applying MAWL, we can be ready someday to  "Leave" and continue to open more campuses. Leave  doesn't mean abandoning them but lessening our time with them as they are growing with the DNA of crusade. It may mean meeting them on a monthly basis instead of weekly. We may also meet them every other week as we put more effort opening new additional campuses (expansion).

How does it look like meeting KVs once a month or every other week? I would say:

Still meeting with them for prayer, worship, accountability, vision casting, bible study (maybe this time, they are already in Discipleship Lessons: ADG, AIC, ALG,etc), practice (sharing the gospel - theoretical & actual, how to challenge KVs, how to follow up, how to disciple, how to build a movement), goal setting ( ie., number of students to train) & prayer.

Applying the 3/3 Process also sharpens our Coaching with the KVs.   Remember, we are not the ones planning on how to build a movement on campus. It's the students (KVs) we disciple. As we meet them even on a monthly basis, we can coach them by listening & asking good questions (through accountability & goal setting. Practice would help sharpen their skills.

Take note:

In a Base Campus, a staff meets his disciple an average of 2-3 hours per week, applying the 3/3 Process. He is having disciples from different departments or colleges of the university. As he regularly MAWLs the ministry to his disciples, he would Leave others, meeting them just once a month. He continues to share the gospel to the non-christians, finds existing christians to mobilize, disciples and multiplies.

In Catalytic, a staff is meeting his disciples an average of 2-3 hours per week, applying the 3/3 Process. He is having disciples from different campuses of the city or region. As he regularly MAWLs the ministry to his disciples, he would Leave others, meeting them just once a month. He continues to share the gospel to the non-christians, finds existing christians to mobilize, disciples and multiplies.