Kokomo Urban Outreach has been a pioneer the past two years in demonstrating how churches, working together, can impact their communities through extending Christ’s love missionally. Now your church has the opportunity to learn from Jeff Newton, KUO’s founder and pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church. This workshop will be held on Saturday, Feb. 2nd, from 10am-4pm EST, at Trinity UMC, and is part of the North Indiana Conference’s Sending of the Saints workshops. KUO’s vision is: “Every church a mission base, every person a missionary.” Come and learn how your church can become a mission base too and you can be a missionary!

Imagine what our neighborhoods and communities would be like if every church became a mission base in their neighborhood and every Christian thought like a missionary. What would happen if Christians loved the “overlooked and the ignored” the way Jesus did? Could our communities be transformed if Church members spent the majority of their time listening, loving and serving people “out there”? Is it possible for Churches to measure success by their impact in their communities? Would your neighborhood miss your church if it left the neighborhood?

Many churches that are declining believe that they must revitalize before they can reach out. The truth is, the best way for a church to revitalize is through reaching out. It’s not revitalization then outreach. It’s revitalization by outreach. To be effective in outreach churches and Christians must develop a missional mindset. In this workshop we will explore what it means to think missionally. Through discussion groups, hands on mission activities and missional stories participants of the workshop will focus on:
The Mission of God

* What Jesus says about Missional
* The DNA of the “Church”
* Marks of a Missional Church
* The Practical Side of Missional (ie Sidewalk Sunday School, Listening with your eyes, etc.)
* Out of sight, Out of mind (the plight of the poor)
* Living Missionally in everyday life