Equipping and Training
Our mission is to equip the local church to fulfill the great commission. One of the ways we do that is by training churches in evangelism.
Opening Doors is an evangelism training ministry that we compiled and printed. It teaches six basic concepts in evangelism. 1. The need for community. 2. How decisions are made. 3. Answering questions about God and faith without arguing. 4. Read the Bible with your friend. 5. Be a living example. 6. Pray for your friend’s salvation.
Over the past 15 years we have taught close to 10,000 people evangelism, directed 2 city wide evangelism training crusades. We have been on the organizing committee for 8 marches for Jesus, and helped organize 3 state wide crusades. We have reproduced ourselves numerous times by training teachers in evangelism who continue to train others, as well. Equipping and training the local church in evangelism is one of the most exciting activities we do.
We are not content with local evangelism, since our mission is to equip the local church in fulfilling the great commission; we also have compiled a training course in discipleship as well, called Storing the Harvest.
The great commission means reaching the whole world for Christ. Our latest training guide for equipping the church in world-wide evangelism is called Spreading the Seed. We just taught our third Spreading the Seed class. I was able to teach a group of teachers who did almost all of the training for us. What a joy it was to sit back and watch people we equipped do the work of the ministry and expand God’s kingdom.
I believe one of the best ways to advance God’s kingdom is to equip and train others to do the work of the ministry. That is where we invest most of our time in Evangelism training, Discipleship training, and in equipping the local church in its role of World wide evangelism.
Andrew and Sheryl Conrad
