AY Honors/Preach It/Answer Key

Note

Unlike many AY Honors, this honor does not have “knowledge” requirements categorized separately from action requirements. Rather, the requirements for honor completion are listed categorically.

Instructor required

Instructor Requirements

• A. An adult who has preaching skills OR
• B. Any holder of the advanced Preach It honor OR
• C. Your pastor

2. Seed sowing

a. What is seed sowing?

Seed sowing is an activity that opens the way for evangelism. It is somewhat secular in nature, and thus non-threatening to people who are anti-religion. People who would not normally attend an evangelistic program may well attend one of these activities. If successful, a seed-sowing activity leaves a positive impression about the church on the participants and establishes a level of trust. These activities are primarily about creating Friendships where conversation may turn to spiritual matters at the appropriate time.

b. Name 5 examples of “seed sowing”

• Depression Seminar
• Personal Finance Seminar
• Computer classes
• Healthy Lifestyle Management classes
• Auto Mechanic class
• Child care

c. Participate in at least one “seed sowing” event

Though this honor requires you to participate in only one seed sowing event, it is good practice to host two seed sowing events between each evangelism series.

3. Invitation – Demonstrate and/or explain three ways to invite someone to an evangelistic meeting.

• Phone them
• Ask in person (visit)
• email

Regardless of how you invite them, your guests are far more likely to come if:

• You offer to go with them to the meetings (or you are speaking)
• You agree to pick them up
• You explain why the meetings are worth their time
• They have an interest in spiritual things, possibly developed through conversations with you
• They have previously accepted an invitation to a social event at your church
• and most importantly, you already established a relationship with your guest (remember the seed sowing efforts)

4. Understand a Budget

3. Unless it is already available at your venue, find out the costs of:

Printed materials

Ask about different quantities of printed matter. The setup process is a large part of the cost, with incremental copies a small cost. In other words 500 pages will not be much less than 2500. While you can check with local printers, be sure to ask at your conference office for pre-negotiated deals.

Mailing and postage costs

You will want to investigate bulk mailing and unaddressed admail rates. Generally admail can be sent to postal/zip codes either to residences or businesses or both, and you can obtain maps and householder/business counts from the post office website. Preparation of your mailing may be important to get the best rates.

You might also investigate free community newspapers and flyer delivery services as an alternative flyer delivery method.

Advertising

TV

You do not want to buy national advertising for a local series. Local cable stations are more your style.

Radio announcements

Local radio can be surprising cheap if you are flexible on the time of day

Ask about remnant space (time sold on a space available basis where the radio station plays your ads when they have unsold time, charging only for the actual ads played.

Consider the type of station you work with. Do you want to target Christian Radio listeners, or maybe News listeners or various types of secular music. The easy listening station attracts a different demographic than the Christian station does, so consider your ideal audience.

When comparing media quotes remember to break everything down by the cost per thousand impressions and discard impressions outside your reasonable drawing area. 30 seconds of exposure to one hundred thousand listeners within 15 km of your event is worth far more than 30 seconds of exposure to a two hundred thousand listeners 75% of which are located 100 km away from the event.

While not in the requirements, you might also try geographically and interest based internet ads on a site like Facebook.com. With Facebook you can narrow down your audience in really interesting ways. For example, you could run a young person focused series and target under 25 people with an interest in religion who live in your city. Technology is presenting all kinds of interesting opportunities.

5. Know the law/code regarding holding public meetings in your area.

In democratic countries there are few restrictions, mainly the venue should comply with firecodes. If you are using a church or public hall there is nothing to worry about.

In other countries permits are required. Check with your Pastor or other knowledge person.

6. Equipment Knowledge - List, describe the use of, and specialized care for the equipment needed in a media-based evangelistic series, such as the following:

Projector

Know proper care of equipment

How to protect from dust (especially in 3rd world countries)

Demonstrate ability to properly connect to computer and operate

Computer

Demonstrate ability to hook up and use with projector.

Understand the program for using a “split screen”

Be familiar with the various plug adapters for use in other countries

7. Sermon Preparation - Using Media type split screen computer evangelist sermons:

5. Work with your instructor for advice and input to improve your presentation.

An excellent program of complete multimedia sermons is offered by Sharehim.org ShareHim has resources on exactly how to meet these requirements.

9. Present a five minute sermon you have edited

Here is where you put what you learn into practice. This basic honor only requires a 5 minute sermon, which is a very short talk designed to give a taste of preaching. For the real deal, do the Preach It Advanced Honor.

References

Http://sharehim.org