18. Appendices

Following is the different appendices

mentioned in different parts of this Instructive.

Each one is strategic, since special care has been taken

in writing them.

All the appendices are completely unedited, by

which we mean to imply that they have been prepared

exclusively for the stewardship plan in this

Instructive.

The only plssible resemblance that can be

found is with the Individual Covenant, for similar

covenants have been used in the churches, even though the one in this Instructive answers to

exclusive purposes of the Comprehensive Growth

Plan

The appendices appear in the order in which the stewardship plan is developed in this

Instructive.

1. The Best Practices

It is a short devotional that is provided so that the members of the Visitation Committee can make the first visit which is the beginning of

the Days of Revival.

2. Visitation Report

This is a survey that will be applied to each member who attends

church, baptized or not

baptized.

The church will provide each

visitor with the number of

surveys needed to cover the list

of persons to visit.

All the members of the Visitation Committee should receive the seminar which

contains the instructions on how to proceed at the time of making the visit to complete

the survey.

The said seminar is available along

with this Instructive.

Now, why such a survey? What reasons justify it? Why should the church member

complete it? What is the benefit?

The Word of God gives clear and precise instructions to each leader to take care of each one of the sheep that makes up the Lord’s flock:“Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds.

(Proverbs 27:23)

Any church member feels good and pleased when

they see that their leaders, at any level, are

focused on the task of looking after them.

All the actions taken by those leaders, who

have, as their sole purpose, the spiritual

well-being of the member, awaken in them this gratitude

and desire to work in the church.

Let us look at a few key terms in our verse

which is found in Proverbs.

a. “Be sure".Be sure of what? And after knowing what, how do you make sure of this? Let us continue with some other terms to answer these questions.

b. “Know". This means realize, to learn something; do not be ignorant of that which should be known.

It is a knowledge that should not go unnoticed, much less be indolent in what should be done to make it ours.

Action, initiatives, and strategies to implement are required to come to this knowledge.

c. “The condition of your flocks.” This is the precise knowledge that the leaders should have about how the

flock of the Lord is doing

To come to this knowledge the leaders

should find ways, methods, and ideas.

The survey of this Instructive is just that, a powerful tool in the hands of the local church that will allow it to thoroughly know

the state of the sheep.

This survey has been designed with such

precision, that when it is properly filled out, it may

prescribe with spiritual and scientific accuracy what

should be done to strengthen and increase the

sheep of the herd.

d. “Give careful attention to your herds” This is the reason why all of the above should be

done.

All that effort to know the state of the sheep; all the work that involves the

visitation of each member to fill out the survey, is done with the purpose of

taking great care of them.

This is a responsibility which cannot be

shunned by any leader.

If fulfilled, the church member will be grateful when perceiving that there is a genuine interest

in their well-being.

Note that the amount of care that

is required is not little, it’s a lot!

In reality, little is being done with this survey, there is still

lots to be done, however it is a start. May God bless this first effort that will be done in each

local church.

Remember that we live in the era of information, and the data provided through this instrument is extremely valuable.

If this information is used by the pastors, the benefits for the local church will be immeasurable.

Based on the information provided by the members much analysis can be made regarding the different needs.

Based on these analyses, solutions will be provided to improve the weaknesses.

In fact, the CGP seminars mentioned in this Instructive are designed to supply many of those needs.

A database will be created with the

information of each member provided in the Visitation Report.

This Instructive will provide the model for the database, and will make it available to the pastor

and the local church.

Any church, even the one where a computer cannot

be found, can benefit from the wealth of

information from this database.

The only thing that is needed is to collect the

Visitation Report, properly filled out, from

each member.

With the database ready to collect the data, the district pastor knows how to find a person to begin to fill it out with

the data provided by the Visitation Report.

When the database is supplied with all the information from a local church, the analytical possibilities that will provide valuable conclusions, are multiplied.

The district pastor may perform these analysis not only at the level of each local church, but

also at the level of their entire district.

The president of the Conference/Mission may ask each of his

pastors to perform this work, church by

church.

In this way he will have a picture with statistical

information from each of the districts of his field,

and by uniting them in the analysis a complete

picture can be made of the whole field which will

indicate the actual condition of the churches in regards to the growth

and health indicators measured in the Visitation

Report.

The same possibilities are made available to the Union president, when the analysis is unified from all the local fields that make up the Union.

The remarkable idea in all of this is that when observing the contents of the Visitation Report, the experienced eye immediately notices that the items evaluate the basic components that determine and measure the health and growth of the members and the churches.

When this data is statistically analyzed in all of the churches of the same district, or in the entire Conference/Mission districts of the Union, it is then that we perceive the enormous benefit that this tool can provide to the integral growth of the church and its members.

This survey is an instrument of

investigation in which the spiritual design

and scientific aspects were taken into

account.

In the first place, it is spiritual because of the

indicators that determine if a church member is wisely managing his/her Christian

life, are essentially spiritual.

In other words, the indicators of

faithful stewardship are of a spiritual

character.

So, if they seek to measure at what level

they are, first they must be clearly identified and

then included in an instrument designed to

investigate them.

Throughout his ministerial life, any

pastor has the capacity of

identifying what the indicators are.

The nature of his pastoral work facilitates this identification.

However, this survey is also

scientific, because in the design of the

instrument the scientific principles

of investigation were followed.

So, from a spiritual perspective, we are

going to scientifically measure the indicators

which establish the management of the

Christian life practiced by each church member.

For this instrument to be valid and trustworthy, so that it could be applicable to the brethren in general, it was

first applied to various members in different countries to prove its

effectiveness.

In scientific investigation this process is known as pilotage

and is required for validity and trustworthiness.

The pilot test was applied to dozens of

church members.

Their willingness to participate and their spirit of cooperation was

observed, which indicated to the researchers who prepared it that the

content of the instrument inspires trust and security in the brethren.

Based on all of the above, we provide the church this powerful tool, certain of its

invaluable blessing.

3. In a Covenant with God

This topic is prepared so that the visitor can use it prior to the signing of the Individual Covenant that precedes the

Days of Revival.

4. Covenant with my God

This is the Individual Covenant that the church member signs on the second visit just before the Days of Revival.

Each district, Conference/Mission, makes their design and sends it to be made.

However, the content must be conserved, since it was tested in various churches with excellent results.

5. My Prayer Covenant

It is the first sermon of the

Days of Revival

Take note that at the end, an appeal is made to make the Prayer covenant and the card is included so that each member can make his/her covenant.

The card must be printed by the district or

Conference/Mission

6. My Prayer Covenant

It is a small sticker that must be made by the district or Conference/Mission to be filled out by the church

member and then placed on the inside cover of their Bible.

7. Covenant of Faithfulness to the Bible

This is the second sermon for the Days of Revival.

At the end, a model of the card to be used in the appeal to sign the covenant to study the Bible, is also included.

The district or mission sends it to be printed.

8. Covenant of a Bible Student

It is a small sticker that must be made by the

district or Conference/Mission to be filled out by the church

member and then placed on the inside cover of the Bible next to the Prayer

covenant.

9. Committed to the KingdomThis is the third sermon for the Days of Revival.

In this case the appeal for the covenant is made by inviting the people to stand and then invite them to come up to the alter.

Have a small sticker made with the phrase: COMMITTED TO THE KINGDOM”, that will be given to each member who made the decisión to commit everything to the Lord.

At that moment they will be asked to place it on the front cover of their Bible.

10. Be Godly

It is the short devotional that the visitor will use a month after the conclusión of the Days of Revival.

It serves to reinforce the previous covenants and to prepare the ground for the family to sign the Family Covenant.

11. Family Covenant Devotional Ceremony

It is the topic that the

district pastor will present in

each home where the

Family Covenant is

signed.

This occurs, depending on the

various ceremonies that take place, more

or less one month after the visit where the Be

Godly devotional is presented.

12. Family Covenant

This is the covenant that

will be signed by all family

members at the ceremony.

It is a scroll and it is

recommended that it be

exquisite in design when it is sent to be made by the district or Conference/Missi

on.

Oscar Antonio Zulma Elena Ana Patricia Elías José

Central Honduras Conference Comayaguela Church

On this _____ of the month of ____________ of ______, We the members of the Villeda Castro, family decided to make a covenant of faithfulness with the Lord.

Our Covenant:“My Family and I will Serve the Lord”

(Joshua 24:15)

We desire to attract God’s blessing on our home and to achieve this we make a family covenant of faithfulness to receive and practice the twelve

CGP seminars: 1. The power of my habits

2. Living the power of prayer

3. The Bible, life and success

4. Family and Church Finances

5. The Church, its visión and my mission

6. Why are busy people the most successul?

7. The forgotten habit of memorization

8. Mind, body, soul and well-being

9. The power of living to serve

10. Redeeming families

11. Readings that build lives

12. Adoration and prosperity

“In Christ will all Families of the Earth be Blessed”

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13. The Faithfulness of Jesus

This is a short devotional prepared so that the visitor can present it to

his/her list of members after the

signing of the Family Covenant

It serves as the introduction of

the handing over of the small tool

about the motives for

tithing and giving offerings that will be left with the

member

14. Tool on Tithing

It is a small tool that seeks to find reasons why some people give

tithe and offerings while others do not.

From the first visit made by the visitor when he/she

presents the topic, The best practices, until the

moment when this tool is given to the members,

approximately nine months have gone by.

Throughout this time, different strategies have

been implemented to help the church member make the decisión to be faithful

in tithe and offerings.

This small tool will reveal at this point those who

persist in not doing so, but most importantly, their

reasons, and with this in hand we can design

initiatives to continue helping them in this critical

issue.

In total there are 14 documents included in these appendices.

Before recommending them to the local church they have passed the test to measure their effectiveness, therefore they are given this guarantee.

The rest of the materials mentioned in this Instructive, such as the CGP courses that will be studied one per semester in addition to other resources, will be coming out on a regular basis and be sent to the churches by different means to ensure their use and in this way produce the sought after blessing.