Have you ever wondered how you could impact your small group or Sunday School leaders and mobilize them to impact lostness in your community AND make disciples? It's called being missional, which means equipping every leader and person in your church's small group ministry to follow Christ and literally look at their neighborhood as their mission field and view the people they work with, live next to and interact with through the eyes of a missionary.

The Leaderesource initiative is designed to help your church accomplish this vision. To this end, the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina is developing resources to help not just every church, but every class or group in our state become missionaries to our neighborhoods.

The Strategy
Conduct a Leaderesource orientation for your church leadership, especially your Sunday School and small group leaders. People from all over North Carolina, including pastors, lay leaders, housewives, education and student ministers are producing training modules for your church to choose from in order to train your leaders. We encourage you to conduct your Leaderesource orientation training in your church, or join your association to provide this training. Each module includes a teaching outline, listening guide, handouts and PowerPoint presentation to help your leaders teach others in your church.

Show the Ed Stetzer "Missional Small Communities" video
Thanks to the generosity of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, we are pleased to provide this challenging and inspirational video of Ed Stetzer, President of LifeWay Research. This video is about 30 minutes in length and Ed presents the vision of every class or small group in your church living for a greater purpose than just a weekly assembly. This video is free to churches that register to participate in the Leaderesource initiative.

Following Your Leaderesource
Encourage every group or class in your church to conduct a local mission project. Imagine the impact if every class in every Southern Baptist church in your community conducted these mission projects. Let's be candid: most of us know people who have studied missions and evangelism in our groups for years (maybe decades) yet have never done anything outside the walls of their class or home. By doing a class mission project and letting them choose and organize the project through their group, the church will probably have more people engaged in missions than ever before. Now imagine the impact of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of class mission projects occurring in your town. Your community will begin to see local churches who are interested in them and care about their community. The church becomes relevant. Couple this relevancy with the new Bible training your leaders are receiving through Leaderesource, and you have the makings of spiritual transformation in your town. Combine personal care through mission projects and church members living as missionaries with solid Bible teaching and prayer for God to do something supernatural in your community. Now your church is impacting lostness.