Resources

Many people talked about finding ways to meet the needs in you community here are some things that they mentioned
-Talk to people who are currently involved in meeting the needs and find out how you can partner with them.
-Join community groups
-Join community sports and recreation groups/teams
-Adopt a neighborhood or adopt a school
-Do community events and don't charge.
-Look for ways in doing business to bless your community rather looking for freebies (Doug mentioned this in his talk)
-ruralcompassion.org
-internation team (iteams) you can google them. They work with immigrants in Minneapolis

Books
-Simple Church
-Peptalk
-Fusion and Activate (Searcy) books about assimilation and small groups
-Black Book of Connectionshttp:

Misc
-Use the local paper they are looking for stories
-Start a daycare
-Leverage paying events to pay for other outreach events at the church
-Add a service (provides more options for people)
teer opportunities in the community

Communication
icontact.com
constantcontact.com
blogger.com
twitter.com

More stuff
youversion.com (online bible)
churchmetrics.com(tracking web tool)
epodunk.com

istockphotos.com
lifechurch.tv-website from life church (craig groeschel) they give away everything and they have a very talented team working for them. Great tools for just about anything. FYI they created youversion.com and churchmetrics.com
theorangeconference.org-great youth and kids programs

Leadership Development Grant-let us know at the district office, what we can do to help.

Get someone who isn't a believer to help you design your promo.

That is it for now, we will work on getting these up on our mnaog.org site as well. If there are any more resources that might help your fellow planters let us know.

Talk to you soon but until then

His servant and yours,

mac