What is BootCamp and why should I consider attending?

BootCamp is a ministry enhancing experience designed to benefit church leaders in a variety of leadership roles.  The training of BootCamp targets the needs of leaders preparing to plant new churches.  However, the insights offered are beneficial for every church leader.  A specific tract is offered for pastors of churches that need to be revitalized.  Training is also provided for the coaches and assessors who support church planters and revitalizers.

Here's a sample of what is covered during BootCamp . . . 

Workshops:

  • Clarifying Core Values

 

  • Focusing Vision
  • Defining a Mission Statement
  • Circles of Ministry
  • Mobilizing People to Pray
  • Mobilizing People to Lead
  • Assimilating People
  • Designing a Ministry Flow Chart
  • Building Shared Vision
  • Launching Public Services
  • Improving First Impressions
  • Planning for Implementation
  • Sharing your Vision

What is a Re-Boot?

ReBoot training is a 1-day seminar prior to BootCamp that targets churches that are in decline. Redevelopment training has three objectives:

  • To understand the general dynamics that lead a church into decline.
  • To develop a realistic diagnosis of the state of a particular church’s current ministry and its future potential.
  • To develop a realistic strategic plan designed to move a particular church toward its desired future.

What will I learn?

  • Life cycles Dynamics
  • Why a church moves from Incline to Recline to Decline
  • How to avoid Recline and Decline
  • How to extend the vitality of your church
  • How to Re-develop a church in Decline
 
Click here to find out more information on the benefits of attending an Assemblies of God BootCamp.

Click here for a schedule of other upcoming Assemblies of God BootCamps!

 

Following is an unsolicited testimonial from BootCamp 2001:

"Dear Steve,
    The world will forever remember the 911 tragedy of 2001. It is especially significant for my husband and I because it also marks the beginning of a new journey in church planting as we attended the boot camp with your staff at Hermit Basin. We often refer to it as a time of change and challenge as we both went up to the mountain with our own ideas, but was able to come home with God's united vision for our lives personally and for the work that He was already preparing the way for. . . . I share this to say thank you for sowing seeds into our lives at Boot camp - it has truly transformed us. . . . I don't know how people ever planted churches without the training we received by you and your staff and without the support that the A/G now provides. Part of our mission statement is to "multiply churches". . . . We pray we will have the privilege of planting many churches for His Kingdom and His glory. May God bless you; work in you and through you as you continue to pour into future church planters as you have done in us." 

Following is an unsolicited testimonial from BootCamp 2000:

"In March we had a leadership meeting where I used some of the church planting materials in order to redefine our purpose as a church...  Out of that meeting we decided to rename the church to New Hope Community.  The people are excited about what God is doing and I have more volunteering each week to get active in some way.  Thought you might like to hear that the church planting boot camp had an impact in resurrecting a struggling church.  Stay tuned for more great reports!"  

Matt Bradshaw, Pastor -- New Hope Community, Golden, CO