An introduction to the Biblical basis for ministry in residential communities, with emphasis on opportunities available, residential community industry systems, and the processes that create initial success in engaging the unreached (people group) within residential communities worldwide.
Create awareness of unreached groups who reside in apartment communities, manufactured housing, senior communities, tiny home communities, campus settings, 55+ active adult communities, life care communities, urban core neighborhoods, subdivisions, and rural unincorporated communities. Provide basic knowledge and skills for engaging owners/management companies, site managers and staff, and residents. Serve as a Biblical foundation for making residential community ministry a critical part of the overall evangelistic strategy in ministry settings; especially with regard to reaching cities and starting churches.
All church planters will discover an entirely new population; 96% of which are not engaged in a local church. They may discover that this is perhaps the easiest way to begin the search for persons of peace and form the core group for a new church plant. Should they fail to understand the residential piece, in many cases they will eliminate over 40% of the population in their church planting target area. It is therefore relevant to their strategy to engage every pocket of people in order to effectively reach a community and start a new church.
Follows the pattern of the Apostle Paul, Peter, and other early church leaders in intentionally engaging people of peace with a view to begin “house churches” “Mission Outposts”
