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Getting Started
- Read through the Outreach Orientation of the CHOP Ministry Manual (pages 9 - 28)
- Partner with 1 or 2 others to pray about getting the CHOP ministry started
- Recruit other participants
- Decide on a meeting time and place
- Provide a CHOP Ministry Manual for each participant
- If enfolding the Basic Training Lessons as pre-CHOP group meetings, those four meetings could include prayer and review & discussion of the Outreach Orientation. Sections of the Outreach Orientation could be read prior to the group meeting in preparation for discussion. (see Pre-CHOP Prep)
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NOTE : Although these pre-CHOP meetings stretch the CHOP period from 12 to 16 weeks, the time is recommended to build a sense of mission & community, to enhance understanding through discussion, and to prepare the way through corporate prayer
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For the first regular meeting of the house of prayer, read the descriptions of each segment aloud in the group as a preface to each to reinforce the purpose and activity of that section
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Sample Announcement for CHOP Recruitment:
You talk to him every day at work, but how can you reach Rick for Christ? Your Aunt Jane is not a believer. How can God use you in her life? Plan on being part of a community house of prayer, where you will be prepared as an instrument of God and trained in reaching others for Christ through strategic prayer. A house of prayer involves committing yourself to 12 weeks of directed daily prayer and weekly group meetings. Let ____ know of your interest in being prepared and enabled in this necessary aspect as a disciple of Jesus Christ. It will change your approach to life, to prayer and to God's Word.
