 Hey, good morning everyone welcome. Let's just begin this time with a word of prayer And then we get into our teaching Father we thank you for this time once again for giving us this opportunity to And come together in the study and learn from your word of God And even as we learn Lord we pray that we be receptive to the leading of your Holy Spirit that you will lead us You will guide us you will Minister to us Lord. Thank you. We open our hearts to you Lord in Jesus name. We pray amen Amen. All right, so before we go ahead. Let's just quickly Do a review of what we did yesterday Yesterday we talked about the survey phase You know when you when you're looking at a city Look at the dynamics of a city try to understand the city We look at the example of the Apostle Paul when he went to Philippi And also when he was at Athens and you know, there are many other examples where the Apostle Paul was able to you know minister to people by By by getting a feel trying to understand and reason with the people Understand, uh, you know the dynamics of the of that city And and we also saw the launch area. It's very important to have a certain launch an area in mind when where you want to launch your ministry. So that could be um, you know some things that you can keep in mind is proximity um, and that basically will be your Your main church or your mother church and then out of that can come many other congregations or many other locations um, and so today we look at chapter 10 Which is the preparation phase Right now. I think you may have heard this worse many times You know preparation time is never wasted time uh, and and sometimes we may want to start our ministry and we are excited We heard from god. We know that god is with us uh, but You know, we may try to jump the gun meaning we may try to just take two steps when you know We're only supposed to take one step. So we may try to Do things quickly just so that we can achieve what we want to achieve now It's very important to let Preparation time happen to take its course uh, and even as this preparation phase happens This is what A few points that we'll study today. These are the pointers that we can uh, you know begin to do During the preparation phase now when it comes to preparation phase We can also think of it as off-site And that we've already talked about you go to You know, you can be elsewhere you can think about the place And the dynamics you read about the place. What is the economy? What are the people like? What are the demographics? All of that can be done online, right off-site, but This preparation phase where we uh begin to launch the ministry Uh will typically happen on site, right? So you've got to be there Be at that location So first point on when it comes to pre The preparation phase now. These are just pointers, right? It doesn't have to be this order that you have to do it But you can you know, you can see what works for you, right? But these are some pointers that you can Use when it comes to launching your own ministry One is the pre-launch meetings right now. Usually what happens is The the court court Planting team if it's good to have a team, right? You begin to visit the site regular regularly Either you see okay, is there somebody's home close by you begin with a you know, probably A cell group meeting there and then Eventually you search for a place where you can Have the services, right now this initial phase is is Is the phase before the launch, right before the official launch now when it comes to You know this this phase especially like a small group or you're you're just having worship and prayer in a certain place uh It's very important to be led by the Holy Spirit because This phase can can be one year. It can be six months. It can be two months Right. It can be the the timing Not necessarily has to be one or two weeks or a year or six months. So We need to be led by the Holy Spirit So that god even as we're getting together, you know our heart. We want to start a church here. We want to start a ministry Um help us to launch at the right time. Give us the right space open the right door Give us the wisdom to take the right step at the right time Right. Uh now when we do this when we have these pre-launch meetings The church planting team gets together and praise There's worship. There's uh, uh, you know, you you get organized So one of the things that you can do is also prayer walks Around the neighborhood around that place Um, just praying for people praying that the Holy Spirit will minister to people touch lives change lives houses will be blessed Uh, you know families will be blessed children will be blessed. Uh, you're just speaking You know, you're praying you're speaking the things of God in that area. All right now here's the thing sometimes we may feel very You know inadequate or we may feel very small. Hey three people working around this big city praying for the city Remember the bible teaches us, uh, the prayers of a righteous man are effective right so Our responsibility is to pray That we can we can be just two people in a church planting team But it's good to pray good to pray and ask God to touch lives to minister to people in and around that area Right the pre-launch meetings could happen for any period of time like we said three months six months even a year Uh, but why we suggest not to you know, keep postponing it for too long is because Uh, we may get comfortable doing what we're doing that small setting But you know, we we should not lose a vision right so the reason of doing this small Uh pre-launch meeting is because one day we're going to launch Right and if you feel that you're ready to launch you can just go ahead and launch Right so for example when we started a location in another city what we did was uh, we One of the locations we had these pre-launch meetings in one of our church members house Um, so it was weekly during the week Uh, not on a sat not on a saturday, but during the week in the evenings Uh for six months we had it like we would go meet we would Uh have worship word pray pray for people in the neighborhood pray for this for that area of the city like people will you know Experience the presence of god and and those will be open people looking for a church will come Bless the outreach efforts bless the church even as you start the vision So so for six months we did that And after six months, uh, I remember I think around the fourth or the fifth month We began to look out for a place And so we kept those two months. Okay two months. We will look out for a place You know get the place get the agreement signed Do everything or everything that needs to be done in the practical and then you have a Um, uh launching of the sunday service So this is good to do uh because what's happening is your one is you're keeping your Search plan team You know You're keeping them informed of what the plan is too is there's unity. There's oneness all of you are in one mind and The foundation is good. You spend time in prayer spend time in worship Uh, and so you can you know go ahead and launch um Next point is there may be some Uh one-on-one evangelism and invitations that may be extended during these pre-launch meetings Uh, but this period is primarily to strengthen the core team now uh When it comes to church, I think one of the One of the uh, most of the pastors like most of us as leaders We'd like to see a church with 100 200. We'd like to see a church growing right? Nobody will want to say Okay, I want a church and if I have 100 people that's enough Nobody would want that right you want to see the church grow You want to see the church develop and become better and be efficient and grow in the spirit and and of course you want to see numbers being added the people taking taking people from a place of you know, uh Not immaturity, but uh, they're still babes in Christ. You're taking them to a place You're they're spiritually growing in the Lord It's wonderful when when we see all of that happening, but uh, but this pre-launch phase It's always good to keep it for You know the team the core planning team Right. Uh, it's important that we don't spend all our pre-launch phase only doing outreaches For example, you know, uh, evangelism book Book distribution bible distribution Um, or reaching out. It's good It's good to reach out, but we don't spend all our time doing that. Why because we want The the church planning team to be strong in in unity and uh, you know, that one is to develop So the prayer of all of them being together is very important Of course in Maybe what you can do is if it's in a month you can say, okay two days Or three days in a month, we will just spend the day reaching out going for prayer walks Make teams you can go out or or you can go one one by one like around the area But primarily the pre-launch phase is for strengthening each other strengthening the core team Because later on once the church has started the church is growing We need that Oneness you need that when that Unity to be there together Right. So pre-launch meetings is something that you can think of Another method would be the worship prayer and intercession Right, of course in the pre-launch meeting you will be doing worship prayer and intercession And During this time During the pre-launch meeting phase you can have extended times you can as a team you can spend more time You know, if you normally spend one hour or two hours you can try and spend, you know three or four hours Right a worship prayer interceding for people interceding for families on for the city for for working professionals just just being there and Time spent in this will is basically your foundation Because what you do in the beginning when you know when you launch your church when you launch your ministry This becomes a habit having prayers times of worship times of intercession times of extended times of maybe You know days of fasting and prayer during the week All of this is the foundation to a strong church right Three know your primary target audience and your other audiences Right, so identify your audience Okay, so for example, you can look at okay Number one we are studying in English church All right, so English church One now under English church, okay, so we need to reach out to English speaking students, so you look at English speaking English colleges Then you look at corporate sectors And then you can also target okay married couples age between 80 and 35. What can we do for them? Right, so know your target audience now. It's not necessary That you know as a church we have to have only one target audience No, we can definitely You know reach out to everyone everyone are invited Everyone it's the gospel is open to everyone, right? But there's there's this, you know audience that god may have put in your heart right so for example I remember you know in 2012 13 14 Uh, up to about 15 16 we were doing a lot of outreaches Right, even now we do but during those days. It was even more Right, so we were talking about christmas carols uh in apartment complexes christmas carols in uh In malls across the city, so uh, that was wonderful Then we would go into corporate sectors now these are offices which had Hundreds of people coming in to work Right, so you have these You know these corporate offices right tech parks is what we call it here in vangalore tech parks Different companies so we would go we would tell them hey can we do a christmas? concert and and Give out some of our books and we would take permission so we did that for many years, right? And it was wonderful because we were able to target people And we knew okay All of them in a corporate sector will definitely know english so and they would definitely be They would understand english as well and now many of them were from different age groups. You had youth. You had married young couples you had uh people who are you know, uh Almost in the early 40s as well So we knew okay, that's the target there, right? So you got maybe 25 to 40 Or 45 right so that 20-year range. So so we know okay. We're targeting this group of english-speaking people right, uh Identify their needs Right identify ways to connect with your target audience now One of the things we did when when we were doing all of this was When when we are invited to colleges, right? especially when we have to maybe do a uh teaching or You know, we get invited to do their you know a one hour of life skills or teaching And then sometimes we we were also invited to do Christmas carols and youth concerts So for example, right there are we are invited to a college Now college young people 18 to 22 23 all all of them are between that Or 16 to 23 or right now what kind of music will they listen to? They will want good music, right? They would they don't want the old songs right The old gospel songs and no So we knew okay the target audience is 16 to about 22 years old They want good music I can't go with one guitar and stand there and sing What are they what is going to happen? It's not going to interest them I won't be able to captivate them Right, of course. We're not trying by our own means, but these aspects are important So what we did we would begin to listen to new songs, right? uh the new different genres of music of worship or prison worship songs And we found out hey, there are some good songs which we have to learn and we were able to do concerts and You know these are good songs good praise and worship songs with god's word in it But they are you know contemporary songs And so they were not some old songs where but the youth enjoyed it And because they enjoyed it we got called every year and say, why don't you come next year as well? and minister to the students and sometimes We also get invited to teach In colleges, right? So now if you're going to a college in teaching We cannot start saying okay open the book of uh, you know deuteronomy And read this verse. It's not going to work. It's not going to help them Right always know the target audience. Okay, so they're young people What are their problems depression? anxiety pure of the future Addictions You know self-worth Now peer pressure. So these are the points, right? So we We made a curriculum. Okay. So when we go to colleges, these are the topics we're going to preach So whenever we went to colleges, we had like a brochure. Okay. These are the topics suicidal tendencies drug addiction Overcoming bad habits peer pressure Uh, and we would speak on those topics Now what's happening? target audience Right and what about in the corporate sector? Uh, if we we're invited in the corporate sector, sometimes it's most of them are families, right? They're married with kids how to manage Work-life balance how to balance your work balance family No, we may have we may be excellent in our work, but not unable to do anything in the house Right, or we may be excellent in the house unable to do anything outside of the house So we need to maintain that work-life balance and then We understand the target audience. So when you are Starting your church or starting your ministry I have target audiences now. I'm not saying you have to have one audience only No, so, you know, okay for the youth This is what I'm going to do For the middle-aged 30 to 40 This is what I'm going to do 40 to 60 This is what I'm going to this is how I'm going to reach them Right identify these ways to connect and with your target audience Right in Matthew chapter 10 was five through six Jesus sent his disciples initially to minister only to the Jewish people But Paul was sent to the Gentiles. Well, Peter was sent to the Jews. Now. Why is this example here? Ministry in God's eyes is one thing Right when God looks at us as a church He looks at one church All these denominations don't matter to him Methodist Presbyterian Baptist Doesn't matter to him when the Lord Jesus looks He looks at us as one church as one body washed by the blood of Jesus So Jesus chose Peter Go and preach to the Gentiles Jesus said sorry go and preach the Jews Jesus chose Paul the apostle and said go and preach the Gentiles so There will be times when God will there'll be a special annoying thing On your church or your ministry and your leaders to minister to a certain group of people Right that that's a certain kind of anointing God's call will be there Not only as individuals but as a church community Now picture this what if the apostle Peter Went out and spent more time with the Gentiles God would have definitely blessed the ministry, but we see that When Paul spoke to the Gentiles they just believed because he was also persecuted but His work was much much much more fruitful than than that with the Jews But Peter's work was fruitful with the Jews There's only I think a few accounts where Peter speaks to Gentiles one is Cornelius Right apart from that. I don't see any other place where you know, he ministered May have been a few instances elsewhere, but Would you look at a look at a possible Peter apostle Paul? Everywhere he ministered was to the Gentiles so Paul himself testifies he says You know God has called me to preach to the Gentiles to be a light to the Gentiles So he knew that's his calling So as a church As a as a ministry God will open doors where you you know, you feel okay. This is something that I can do I know a couple of ministries which are uh, you know, very powerful when it comes to ministering to Uh, uh prison ministry it really well because God has opened the doors. There's some kind of anointing there They know that no This God's favor. There's you know, when they speak to the police officers There's favor that God just opens doors for them. They're able to go minister to People who are in prison Then you have another ministry that I know of Not in this city, but in another city where Uh, they minister to prostitutes in the red light area That's not easy to do that because you need permissions one you need The approval of the the head of that prostitution ring to he had that person must agree So there are ministries which go in Preach the gospel minister to you know, these prostitutes who opens the doors. There's there's anointing So when we know our target audience it could be a two or three Uh, you know audiences the the target could be two three different kinds of communities Now but you come up with strategies for each of these places right Then identify people who God has already prepared Right So for example You start your ministry, right? Let's read Matthew chapter 10 11 through 14. So you get a context Matthew chapter 10 11 through 14 Right, so this is when Jesus is Uh sending out his 12 Disciples he's saying, okay Now you have seen me do the ministry now you go out. So 11 through 14 Whatever town or village you enter Jesus is giving the instructions Whatever town or village you enter search for some worthy person there and stay at his house until you leave As you enter the home give it your greetings, but if But if the home is deserving let your peace rest on it if it is not let your peace return to you verse 14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, take the dust of your feet when you leave that home or town Yeah, that's still 14. So Go where you are welcome. There will be times when your ministry You may not even started the church But people call you to minister go where you're welcomed again, uh, you know, we must as we learned last year in The ministry of the evangelist pastor and teacher. We must understand that Whenever we are invited to places to minister There are certain guidelines we must follow but go where you're welcome minister Wherever you you go to right and now after your church is growing and people get to know your ministry people may invite you Right now again as your church is growing as a as a pioneer as a leader of the church There are times you'll have to decline And and lovingly you can decline and there are times you can go minister to people now That's because you decline an invitation doesn't mean you don't like them doesn't mean they You have something against them It's just that you're trying to focus on the church and the ministry that god has placed in your hand Right. Look at this example in act 16. Lydia said come home said to paul come home and In filipi come and pray and be with us and they went Right. We read this was did ya was a purple merchant who opened her heart got opened her heart She accepted the message of the apostle paul and lydia invited Them home discern and avoid people with wrong motivations and intentions now There will be people who may invite you in terms of wrong motivation right, so There are many examples I can give but uh, you know, I I don't want to Talk too much on that, but there will be people who may invite you for wrong motivations Just to gain a name or to gain uh gain maybe financial needs or material things or uh So you you discern that right ask god You know Should this is something that I should do is this something that I should go and uh, you know Take your time and think about it. So always remember as a pioneer Uh, you know, you have the choice Like uh, not you don't you know the thing with pioneers and uh CEOs and businessmen Uh people who are leading ministries businesses. They don't have to ask anybody anything They can do what they want to do but It's very important. They have to be doubly sure that this is the right thing right because Especially when it comes to ministry the ministry is not theirs. It's gods They have to make sure that what they do is in line with god's word It's in line with what god has given them and you know god has spoken to So so that's very important right as a pioneer to Think to disown Now the next point will be after you have You know, you have done your pre-launch. You have spent time Okay, rosalind is saying will there be any authority where they will be submitted right now Uh rosalind, I I put it this way There are different denominations, right? So you got The denominational churches will always have a certain authority, right? There's a hierarchy Uh But for example a non denominational church a church which is pioneered by a person or a team a core team Right, it's most likely that they will be making all the decisions right, so that is why initially It's very important to involve your core team. The ministry may be yours God has put the vision in your heart, but it's always good to have a core team Now i'm not saying that the core team will be with you 10 years 15 years down the line They may be there if they're there. That's wonderful. That's great. But if they are not there Get the right team involved get right people involved That's for example What we do at apc is you know whenever we get an idea So we put it out in the past total team discuss it Say okay pros cons. Is this something that is doable? Is it something that Well, bless the people. Is it beneficial for the ministry? What are the finances involved? And so we have a discussion together Right and depending on the pros and cons Uh and depending on No, what what finances and everything but putting everything under into consideration We make a decision Right now. We know that the church is pioneered by one person, but we have a team Right, uh, and then when it comes to legal matters finances, there's another team Right, so it's good to Have a team, but i'm not saying that it's there in every church Uh now when it's not there, it's a problem. Why because the the leader can Make a decision and he himself he or she may not know that whether it's a right decision or a wrong decision but if he's got Some people a team with him They may be able to you know correct and say, you know, hey, this is a better idea or or we can go ahead with this idea. So again with denominations there are There is authority that they are submitted to but uh non-denominational church. It's very important to You know pioneers form a team trust each other submit to each other You know And when we do that Good decisions are made wise decisions are made Yeah, but it's hard Okay, now mostly we want to unmute and speak If you have anything else Is Okay, so the question here is what i've seen is one pioneer doing well successfully Another senior man of god will approach him and ask him to submit to him because he was serving under that man of god Before separating to follow his call. So like asking to send the tides to him Oh, that's a big no So rosalind if if for okay, so rosalind's question is say there's a man He was a person a believer was working under A sort was working in a church and now he has moved out and started his own church Right and uh, he started his own ministry and this ministry is doing well But the other church pastor comes and says you have to submit to me Give him all the funds and No, he doesn't have to do that remember what uh You know in in the book of matthew mark and luke as well When john the baptist was there Andrew and andrew was his disciple right What did jesus what did what did john say? Go go to him He he must increase i must decrease so Now when you look at it practically rosin God has called this person out god is blessing his ministry. It is his ministry. It is His you know god has blessed him and he this other pastor the other man of god cannot ask Him to give the tithes to him If he does, how will he look after the church? He will not be able to look after the church and he cannot do that Right Right There's a season for all of us. There'll be times when we are working under somebody There'll be times when god will take us and put us somewhere else Right Now the right thing to do is this man of god Must say hey, I will help you in anything that you need and you know or partner together help each other to you know Stand with each other But asking them to send tithes asking them to you know submit to his authority that would be completely wrong That's not biblical at all so Thank you pastor. I've been like seeing these kind of things around me. So yeah Thank you. Thank you for that. Yes. Yes. And I think I think also in our nation of india It does happen because they've you know sometimes the The ministry that the man of god who was there, you know who started the ministry there May always feel that you know, I am the one who made him spiritually strong because of me. He's in ministry But as believers, we must understand that it is not because of us. We may have trained people Right. We may have given them opportunities. We may have given them You know opportunities and help them funded them whatever we've done If god has called them for another ministry you should we must be willing to let go of them Bless them. Let them go and let them be fruitful to god's kingdom Holding them back taking control over them is not a sign of a good leader at all I I would say I'd question the authority right because How can he say that that means he's building his kingdom and not god's kingdom Right. Uh, it's sad, right, you know, especially when we have people, you know Uh people who have started a church And then in the church, there'll be a young man He has done everything in the church for 10 years Right. He has set up the chairs done the sound and set up. He has uh Let the worship he has started the cell group. He has done everything in the church Now after 10 or 15 years down the line He says hey god is calling me goes to the pastor and says god is calling me to pioneer my own ministry if The other pastor says no you have to be with me then that is a problem Now we cannot control people We we always let them go. We let them release them into the call of god that they have right, right Next one is Identify your launch location Right. We talked about this Your uh, you identify where you're going to launch the location accessibility Uh, uh, is it easy for people to reach by by different modes of transport? Then you also look at a clean place Right a suitable place. Uh now, especially if you're reaching out to corporate sectors Okay, this is again very it's a practical thing, but it's important right now initially you you start off You start off small you can start on the house, but then you know, okay I've got people from the corporate sector joining the church. So what is it? The place should be a nice place, right? Nobody who's in the in a in a corporate organization will want to You know come to a place where there's you know, at least there should be light. It should be clean should be neat Um, you know a proper facility should be there Basic basic things restrooms parking Car parking, you know, okay, they all have cars. They all have vehicles. We have to make it available. It's not like god You pray and ask god for parking. We can't do that, right? We have to Make sure that all of this is available now one of the things that we do in danglo Is if in case we move our location to another place the first question We ask the people that we are renting out to places is their car parking Because there are so many vehicles car and bike parking Right now if you've got 500 people coming to church You can't expect them to park the car on the road There has to be a parking facility right now. I'm talking about now right now, right? But in the initial phase It's all right, right? You maybe got two three cars and a few bikes But as you grow these are things that we must think of We must have restrooms. You must have uh later on You know as the church goes we also need to think about children You can't have all the children inside in the main hall, right? You need to have another children's service So you need another hall for that so Later on you'll need uh, you know as the church is growing you need new equipment You need new, uh, you know, you learn in media and technology as well in the course New equipment you'll need new speakers new Good musicians good teams to uh, you know the practical standpoint You need a larger space Right if if if we want to get good at what we are doing we cannot be at the same level Right just look at You know, maybe what you can do is you go back if you go to our church website or go to youtube Go back to 2012 2013 worship Our sunday services And look at the sunday services now There's such a big difference Why because as we grow As we're getting better as technology improves we have to Uh, you know provide good, you know good service to our to the people who are coming They are coming. They're taking time. They're coming for the service. Yes. They come in to meet god They come into experience the presence of god But make sure That they also have a comfortable time Right, let me give you this example In one of our locations that is our east location east of banglore Uh, you know, we were we were renting out a hotel every week So we had about 60 70 of us at this location and what happened was the ac work had stopped Sorry, the ac stopped working All right, and so what we tried to do is many of them said hey, we need to continue our services But then uh, since it's a hotel, it's it's completely closed, right? That's double glass paint on the sides and so We we bought these Of fans like these standing fans. We thought okay, we'll use them But even after using them for a couple of I think it is about five six sundays We realized that you know every time I've reached and I I saw that there were elderly people They were struggling to breathe inside. They were sweating Um, the air itself was hot now Now I thought to myself I mean these are you know, there are young people that are children that there are older folks as well And they're coming here, but it's hard for them. So we we stopped the service for a while. We said, okay Uh, until we find a nice place, we'll take a break. You can attend our main service But we'll take a break Right, uh, and yes, it was you know, it was discouraging. We had to stop But we wanted to make sure that everyone who come on sunday are come It's not like we're making them physically comfortable only Right, uh, we want them to hear the word we want them to grow into things of God, but this is also important Right, so then we looked out for a nice play a bigger space We found a bigger space and while finding a bigger space number one thing we thought was There should be parking Because many of them come their own vehicles. They should be parking So we got the right place, right? and Even when we are renting the place Make it absolutely sure that it's a church service Never tell the owners it's only for prayer Or only once a while I'll come on sunday and I will sing once five songs and we'll uh, you know preach the word You can just say it's a prayer service be very clear. Don't hide anything Uh, you know make sure that the rental agreement is in place Make sure that the lease agreement it is written on the agreement. Okay. This is what is going to happen They're going to have worship praise prayer Bible studies put on everything on paper Every single thing right you can also mention that so the new place we have mentioned the timings We'll be here from this time to this time on sunday Uh, and and then we will make sure that we clean the place everything's on paper So what happens? Everything runs smoothly The owners are not going to come and say hey, you said you're going to be here to This time, but now you're staying on for so long. You said sunday, you know once the wild is music But every sunday I hear loud music Everything's on paper. They know it's a church Or you wouldn't want the owner to say I didn't know it's a church. I thought you were doing some bible study and some you know singing But now you're saying it's a church. I cannot give it to a church. It becomes a big problem Right, so be absolutely clear Make sure that when we are gathering, uh, whether it's in the house, whether it's in The corporate setting we don't Disturb or be a trouble to any of our neighbors That's something that we follow right we try to Uh, make sure that you know, we we when we gather when we have our worship activities life groups We don't want to be a trouble to somebody else who's next to us. We want them to We want to live in uh In the in the community. We want to learn the community. We want to link the gospel to the community Love the community and mean to launch to the community. So The community is important And uh, so I hope I'm I'm trying I'm getting the point across right So I don't know sound like we are or you know, we're trying to be ease the church members. Yes, we We want them to grow. We want them to come for prayer time No, for example, if we're having extended time of worship three hours of worship And prayer and worship we'd want them to come and we'd want them to be comfortable during the Uh brazen worship but so that they can freely worship God right So these are things that you know, we desire to do and we always strive to Uh, you know to have our worship services seamless, right? So if you look at our uh teams, you know in a church service We have a service coordinator We have a meet and greet. So every time somebody enters the church, we have a meet and greet team Then we have an ushering team ushers people and helps them to sit Then we have uh, the sound and setup team media team FTV lounge, which is first time visitors But so many things are involved and we have the children's church team teams church team Uh, different different many different teams That's what's happening. We're we're trying to minister to each of them each Uh, uh, you know rain each Um, uh gender each age group everyone pregnant minister to them Right now once you launch the church What you can do is when when you see okay, the church is growing it's doing well Say for example, you're a hundred people you've launched and there are a hundred people in the church Even as you start the church raise up leaders Identify and raise up leaders. So for example, your church is hundred people you should have at least 20 good leaders Now you can ask these 20 leaders 10 of them choose 10 of them and say There's a place Now let us go towards this side of Bangalore do some outreach And replicate everything that you did here Uh relaunch meetings Bible study groups worship Think of your target audience This is a core team pray together spend time together minister together and then launch So you again you repeat the whole cycle but then The you've got to be led by the Holy Spirit. Okay. Where do I have to go? Where can I who are the people that I should choose? Right and then you choose them and especially as a leader You can go with them initially and then train them help them to you know And like basically train them teach them and then send them out And then they can charge to start another church plant and again you give them time It could be a year. It could be six months a year or even more Uh, but then you have you see your vision. It's not only once one place you have the city So, you know, okay one day we're going to start another location here. This is what we need. So you've already got experience here The things that you need to do you replicate it and then you start new locations in different places Right and finally you have the house church model um now this house church model is You know, I would say is most appropriate in towns and villages, right? Where they meet in houses and you know spend time and They have the church service there But if you look at it in a city Uh, it's always good to you know have a place hire a place or have your own place and conduct your Sunday services there because If there are 50 people you can't have them at home Right, uh, it's it's obviously you have to move out. So it's always good to Have your own place. There's so much more that we can Do when we have our own space Right, so this is really interesting the preparation phase. It's exciting to be in this phase Right where you know that god is preparing you to launch uh, but again, uh It's very important that we spend time in god's presence during this phase Choose the right people choose the right place And and make sure that you're doing what god is asking you to do and So it's exciting right this preparation phase. So next we look at the launch phase once you launch What what was we do? So we look at that? next week All right, all right. Thank you so much any questions any thoughts before we close I hope everyone is able to track along But feel free if you have questions you can always ask And you can even email me or you can post the questions we can Answer them next class Right. All right. Thank you so much. Have a great week ahead. God bless