1. PREPARING A PLAN
2. EVANGELISM
3. THE HOLY SPIRIT & MINISTRY
4. INCARNATIONAL MODELS
5. RESEARCHING COMMUNITIES
6. REACHING SEMI-LITERATE PEOPLE
7. OPLAN FROM MANILA
8. 80  STEPS IN A CHURCHPLANT

1. PREPARING A PLAN
1. Evaluate whether a churchplant can succeed
2. Design a process to obtain the blessing and support of the mother church
3. Develop a plan to identify and recruit potential workers

2. EVANGELISM
1. Skill: Trainees will have experimented with processes of finding a person of peace in a community.
2. Skill: Trainees will have been part of a team in a public preaching context.
3. Understanding: Trainees will understand the difference between a fast approach and slow approaches to evangelism and when it is appropriate to use these.
4. Character: Trainees will have a biblical foundation for withstanding opposition when evangelising.

3. THE HOLY SPIRIT & MINISTRY
1.Knowledge: To understand the relationship of the anointing of the Spirit and ministry among the poor.
2. Character: To have opportunity for prayer that breaks barriers to the work of the Holy Spirit in each others lives.

4. INCARNATIONAL MODELS
1. Values: Trainees will come to highly value incarnational and identificational approaches to ministry among the poor, being able to differentiate the positive and negative elements of ministry from the outside, and ministry from within poor areas.
2. Understanding: Trainees will be able to identify 5 effective roles in entrance to a community
3. Understanding: Trainees will be able to identify lifestyle and physical issues that enable viability of long-term incarnation among the poor.
4. Understanding: Trainees will be able to identify limits to incarnational living, differentiating between lack of commitment and wise discernment of personal limitations.

5. RESEARCHING COMMUNITIES
Skill: Trainees will develop a framework of ten elements they need to discern about a community before entrance and a process for unobtrusively gaining that information.

6. REACHING SEMI-LITERATE PEOPLE
1. Understanding: Trainees will understand the difference between story-telling and holistic truth processes and Western or tertiary education linear logical truth processes and be able to frame their teaching in story-telling modes.
2. Skill: Trainees will develop a story on one topic for the consultation/ training program and deliver it within a ten minute time frame