Greater Orlando Baptist Association

Missional Resources

The following is a list of resources and other links that we have found valuable. Please let us know if any of our links point to sites that may no longer be valid. Please feel free to suggest additional links that we should add to our list.
Shaped by God's Heart
Shaped by God's Heart: The Passion and Practices of Missional Churches
Discover the tools to create a new kind of church and move from merely surviving to thriving. Drawing on an extensive two-year field study of 200 churches from a variety of denominations and geographic regions, Milfred Minatrea--a missiologist, urban strategist and practioner in minister--presents the best practices for re-energizing Christian spirituality in a congregational setting.
http://www.lifewaystores.com/lwstore/product.asp?isbn=078797..
Live Sent by Jason C. Dukes
Live Sent: You Are A Letter
By Jason C. Dukes You are a letter. Your everyday life is more than just a story being written. You were created to receive and send a message intentionally into the lives of the people you do life with daily. That's how humanity works. Together. That's how love is demonstrated and how relationships happen and how people find abundant life as they were intended to find it. We live out our intended purpose and mission when we live beyond ourselves. Are you giving yourself away in the daily, being to other people the letter of God's love that has been written on your heart? We must be that letter together. Our community needs us. Our world needs us. Let's live sent.
http://www.livesent.com
Breaking the Missional Code
Breaking the Missional Code
Ed Stetzer and David Putman help churches to train Christ followers to think like missionaries in their local context. "We have to recognize there are cultural barriers (in addition to spiritual ones) that blind people from understanding the gospel," the authors write. "Our task is to find the right way to break through those cultural barriers without removing the spiritual and theological ones."
http://www.wisebuybooks.com/Merchant5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PR..
Generation M
Acts 1:8 Mission Prep Materials
The "Christ Followers" series helps small groups within churches to increase biblical and missional understanding of their responsibility and opportunities for sharing the good news of Jesus Christ. Participants of all ages, from preschoolers to adults, gain a more thorough knowledge of the contemporary world while discovering how to develop a Christlike response to meeting human needs through missions. Christ Followers also explores what believers are doing to share the love of Christ around the world. Free samples available.
http://www.wmu.com/generationM/
Discover Church Planting
Discover Church Planting
Online tools to help you discover how God has wired you. Includes leadership, spiritual gift, DISC, ability and passion assessments.
http://www.discoverchurchplanting.net
NAMB Church Planting Village
Church Planting Village
There is a greater need for more churches now than ever before. The NAMB Church Planting Group wants church planters, sponsoring church leaders, and those who work with them to be equipped, trained, and resourced with the latest tools so they can experience success in every new plant. The Church Planting Village is for anyone dedicated to changing the world through church planting.
http://churchplantingvillage.net
EDGE Church Planting Tutorial
EDGE Church Planting Tutorial
An introduction to evangelsim, discipleship, small groups and church planting.
http://saturatecolorado.com/edge/player.html
Partners in Church Planting
Partners in Church Planting
A guide for churches desiring to participate in church planting as primary sponsor, clustering church, or supporting church.
http://porchcommunity.com/synapse/data/3776/documents/PiCP.p..
peoplegroups.org
North American People Group Data
Peoplegroups.info is a website/database system whereby users can interact with people group information for the North American continent.
http://www.peoplegroups.info/
Reproducingchurches.com
Reproducingchurches.com
A catalyst for collaboration among local churches that share a passion to reproduce themselves and to unite them to be the church in new expressions to every man, woman, and child throughout the region of Central Florida and beyond.
http://reproducingchurches.com
Church Planting Team
Church Planting as a Team
Church Planting Team is a resource to assist planters in the process of developing a church planting team. This resource is provided to you at no cost. This site is designed to give you information about the process and the steps to take and resources to use during the process.
http://www.plantingteam.com
Restoration Concept Inc.
Restoration Concept
Restoration Concept seeks to provide marketplace connection points for our community in which people can both unite to serve and be served. It’s a significant outlet for the entrepreneurial spirit that exists in the alliance of people who make up Restoration Concept.
http://restorationconcept.com/
Business as Mission Network
Business as Mission Network
Business as Mission Companies have these Characteristics (Adapted from Great Commission Companies):

Socially Responsible: The underlying goal is not pure profit, but rather a transformational business. Income-Producing Businesses: These are authentic businesses that create value-added products or services and are not sustained by donations. Managed by Kingdom Leaders: Critical decision-makers are Kingdom leaders who seek to reflect Jesus's teachings. Committed to The Local Church: The business supports partnership with the indigenous church in the community. Glorifying to God: The name of God is the ultimate object of praise, not the name of the business.
http://www.businessasmissionnetwork.com

Virtual Church Planting Experience
Virtual Church Planting
Here you'll learn more about missions and about how YOU can become a church planter. You'll build your understanding of the church planting process and learn more about church planters working throughout North America.
http://www.virtualchurchplantingexperience.com
Christian Parenting Corner
Christian Parenting Corner
Family magazine - articles and resources for Christian parents.
http://www.familiesonlinemagazine.com/christian-parenting/in..
who is my neighbor?
Who is My Neighbor?
Via immigration, North America is changing rapidly. The United States is now 13 percent foreign born, Canada at 20 percent. There is no question that God is doing something amazing in our time. As missionaries engage unreached people groups overseas, God is simultaneously bringing unreached peoples of the earth to our continent, often to our own backyards. Who is My Neighbor? is a biblically-principled guidebook that assists the reader to move beyond their own ethnic group and cross culturally engage people groups from all over the world living in North America
http://reachinternationals.com
Retractable Banner Stands
Church Signs and Banners
Sign printing, outdoor signs, vinyl banners, and retractable banner stands for churches and ministries.
http://www.coldfiresigns.com/index.html
RySymbol: A Guide to ReThink, ReDefine, and Release the Church
By: Doug Dees

The 12 chapters take you through a re-processing of what church is and what it is intended to be. No denominational slants or slams. Just some 'new angles' on 'old scriptures' I think we have totally missed...and yet have been staring at for years.
http://dougdees.snappages.com/ReSymbol%20-%20the%20book.htm

Leadership Grip Birkman
Leadership Grip and Birkman Method
http://www.churchsmart.com/store/listCategoriesAndProducts.a..