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Finding Your PLACE in God’s Church

A Pastor’s Guide to Purpose and Service

Understanding how to serve effectively in church while using your God-given spiritual gifts is essential for both personal growth and church vitality. Dr. Jeff Jackson and Bucky Kennedy, two experienced pastors share their insights on implementing the PLACE ministry tool and helping people find their purpose in church service.

What Are the Four Steps to Implementing PLACE in Your Church?

Determine

Your Purpose

Communicate

It Effectively

Execute

The Plan

Evaluate

The Results

How to Implement PLACE?

Why is Finding Your PLACE in Church Important?

How Does PLACE Help Church Leaders?

PLACE serves multiple purposes for church leadership:

Identifies

New Members’ Spiritual Gifts

Helps

With Member Assimilation

Creates

A Database of Members’ Abilities

Guides Ministry Development

Based on Available Spiritual Gifts

Facilitates

Both Internal and External Church Service

What Role Does Staff/Ministry Leadership Buy-in Play?

Staff and ministry leaders understanding and support are crucial for successful implementation. When staff members and ministry leaders understand PLACE:

How Does PLACE Transform Church Experience?

The transformation occurs in two key ways:

Individual Growth

Members move from being attenders to becoming fully engaged participants

Church Enhancement

The church functions more effectively when everyone uses their gifts

Benefits for Church Members

Increased

Confidence In Serving

Better Understanding

Of Their Spiritual Gifts

Clear Direction

For Ministry Involvement

Enhanced

Church Experience

Life Application Through PLACE

Those who go through the PLACE experience walk away with questions AND answers to:

Join Us!

As great as PLACE resources are for training leaders to teach, PLACE there is nothing like attending a workshop with Jay McSwain and a small group of others desiring to learn how to effectively teach and implement the PLACE process. Jay has taught PLACE well over 1000 times since starting the ministry in 1998. He regularly says that he is continuing to learn how to more effectively teach and lead PLACE at his own church where he serves as the Pastor of Discipleship along with the privilege to train and equip other churches from around the country.

During our two day workshops, Jay will show you how to remove what took him years to learn through trial and error and how to get out of the gate immediately to be able to launch PLACE within your church. Recently Jay shared with his church staff the types of people he sees attending PLACE and how to effectively both equip and minister to those people. And he believes those types of individuals attending his church are reflective of those attending churches all across America.

Join Jay and a small group of other church leaders to learn how to help those God has given you the privilege to lead by discovering how God created them so they can be and do what God created them for in life and ministry.

Below are some of the highlights of what you will experience during our two-day training:

Experience walking through the PLACE experience for yourself on Day One.
The one question that will change everything with you teaching PLACE and coaching others one-on-one.
How to immediately discern (even without the spiritual gift of discernment) the direction a coaching session should go.
Why teaching the PLACE concepts is so important to the success of implementing PLACE beyond just the assessments.
Insights into realistic expectations for those being coached after the PLACE teaching.
Multiple ways to facilitate the workshop in both delivery and length.
Who should be PLACE coaches and why?
How to use the PLACE Online Ministry Guide with Coaching.
Who should be the first group(s) to go through PLACE and why?
How to make an intentional process like PLACE become part of the DNA of your church

Strategies and practical suggestions for promoting and getting individuals through the PLACE process.
How to practically understand the 16 spiritual gifts used in the PLACE spiritual gifts assessment.
Understand why so many churches cannot get an intentional assimilation process like PLACE to be effective. And yes, how to effectively get an assimilation process like PLACE to work effectively in your church.
How to connect all five elements of PLACE together and not just understand them individually which creates tunnel vision and leads to diminished impact in using PLACE.
Understanding why and how PLACE is different than most assimilation tools available and how to leverage the resources to disciple and grow your people along with your church.
And much, much more!

What Is The Schedule For The Two Day Training?

DAY 1
8:00 – 8:30 AM	Arrive and enjoy a light continental breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 AM	Group introduction and purpose for attending the training
9:00 – 9:30 AM	PLACE Overview
9:30 – 10:15 AM	Session 1 – Personality Discovery
10:15 – 10:30 AM	Break
10:30 – 11:15AM	Session 1 – Personality Discovery (continued)
11:15 – 12:00 PM	Session 2 – Learning Spiritual Gifts
12:00 – 12:45 PM	Lunch (provided)
12:45 – 1:45 PM	Session 2 – Learning Spiritual Gifts (continued)
1:45 – 2:00 PM	Break
2:00 – 3:00 PM	Session 3 – Abilities Awareness
3:00 – 3:15 PM	Break
3:15 – 4:15 PM	Session 4 – Connecting Passion with Ministry
4:15 – 5:00 PM	Session 5 – Experiences of Life

DAY 2
8:00 – 8:30 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 10:00 AM	Facilitator Overview and Training for Teaching PLACE
10:00 – 10:15 AM	Break
10:15 – 12:00 PM	Implementing PLACE as an Intentional Process
12:00 – 12:45 PM	Lunch (provided)
12:45 – 1:45 PM	Implementing PLACE as an Intentional Process (continued)
1:45 – 2:00 PM	Break
2:00 – 3:30 PM	PLACE Coaching Overview and Training

Highlights of Day 1

Personality, Spiritual Gifts and Abilities Assessment Completed
Understanding the role of the Holy Spirit in your personality
Connecting and understanding each DISC personality type with a biblical character through both strengths and weaknesses
Learning what a spiritual gift is not and what one is from the Bible
Primary teachings in the Bible regarding spiritual gifts
Biblical principles beyond the spiritual gifts assessment to discovering your spiritual gifts
Practical explanation and understanding of how the Bible uses the 16 spiritual gifts in the assessment
How personality and spiritual gifts interact with one another in ministry
How to understand abilities from the perspective of competency and fulfillment in ministry based on the optimal environment a person flourishes and flounder in
Your own working definition of passion
Who you have passion for in ministry and why
How you demonstrate passion through ministry
Links disconnecting passion from ministry
How to look at your life experiences from God’s perspective
Types of life experiences and how they guide you to fulfilling God’s purpose in your life
How to make the most out of your life experiences
Completing your own PLACE Profile

Highlights of Day 2

How to use the Facilitator Guide and various teaching resources for teaching PLACE
The four steps that must be incorporated to successful implement PLACE
Unpacking each of the four steps in detail in implementing PLACE successfully
How to effectively communicate PLACE to the senior pastor, staff and congregation
Looking at the PLACE Online Ministry Guide and how to build a ministry guide for your church
Understanding the importance of the PLACE Connection Coach in giving individuals and the church an effective assimilation process
Learning the key to helping your people know how to fulfill their objective through PLACE using a question, coaching and the PLACE Profile
Insights into the optimal PLACE Profile for building a PLACE team

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