Goals for 2008-2012

Kjell and Marcy General 'To-Dos'

Assimilate into the culture

• Food - buying groceries and preparation (substituting ingredients, learning to make Honduran foods)
• Cleaning house - laundry (hanging clothes on the line, using the pila), mops and cleaners
• Outside - mowing the lawn with a machete, cleaning gutters along road and property, burning garbage
• Everyday life - dealing with no electricity, no water, walking here and there
• Learning procedures (banking, registering a vehicle, obtaining license, residency, paying bills, etc.)
• Learning lifestyle & mind sets (why people do or do not do certain things) (buying food just for the day, not planning for the future, poverty mentality, sense of hopelessness, being stuck in tradition or what has been taught them, lack of flexibility, etc.)

Learn the language

• Study 1-2 hours during the day (Kjell)  
  • reading the local newspaper with a Spanish-English dictionary
  • reading a verb book and practicing using the exercises in the book
  • viewing a television show in Spanish or with subtitles
  • using CD or software to do exercises
  • memorizing phrases
  • going to the local shops to make a purchases
  • combination of some of the things listed above
  • meet with a local hardware store owner, Guillermo, 2-3 times a week for an hour or more.  We talk in English and in Spanish, read the newspaper, go online and read articles in each other's language, and ask each other questions. 
• Speaking with people before and after meetings and church
• Being out in the community
• Reading local newspapers
• Listening to Spanish radio
• Learning Spanish worship songs
• Reading bible verses in Spanish
• Translating discipleship curriculum into spanish

Cultivate relationships

• dialogue with local people about personal interests, hobbies, family, church, etc. 
• meet with specific people during week (i.e., Guillermo listed above)
• walk the city with the purpose of seeing and greeting people

Misc.

• Pray
• Home school Rebekah.  This typically takes 3 hours in the morning (8 a.m. to 11 a.m.).
• Update and manage the ATC web site.
  • This can take a few minutes or a few hours, depending on what needs to be managed or updated.  A typical update, which includes journal entries and pictures, takes an hour. I have to create the hyperlinks within the pages, edit and upload pictures, edit journal entries, and any simple html code that needs to be modified.
• Drive oldest two children to bilingual school in Comayagua
• Assist with missions teams (driving, answering questions, set up and tear down of materials, packaging of give away items, construction – shoveling, moving bricks, painting, etc., back up messages if team is not ready or ends short,  suggestions, direction – more chairs needed, how to handle distribution, etc.)

What does Kjell do?

Specific Ministry 'To-Dos'

New Generation Church

• Associate Pastor
• Preach/teach classes as needed, specifically men
• Organize and execute outreach events
• Special Events (healing school/services, vision seminars, etc.)

Outreach

• Evangelism (prayer walking, door to door ministry, bike trips, teams, events, etc.)
• Equipping the saints (from the local body) for the work of ministry (go into schools, parks, villages)
• Community classes (e.g., ESL, business owner’s assoc, teacher training, etc.) (future)
• Events (e.g., movie nights) (future)

Church Planting

• Seek God as to locations where a church is needed
• Assess the area and people for need
• Train local pastor /teacher to lead the church (future)
• Connect New Generation members with the new church (future)
• Plan and organize regular ‘Celebrations” in which New Generation and all planted churches meet for a big celebration as a means of connecting, relating, an loving on our Lord together (future)

General Ministry

• Assist with construction projects
• Assist other team members in any way they need

Education – Bilingual school – “Student-centered, Teacher-focused”

• Investigate and gather information on opening K-12 bilingual Christian school in Zambrano
• Choose, review and edit curriculum for bilingual school
• Generate educational plan for the school (i.e., schedule, professional development, uniforms, salaries)
• Interview and screen potential school staff (future)
• Provide overall direction and administration for secondary school in collaboration with Valerie Schubert, director of primary school (future)
• Make connections with universities and colleges in the US and HN in getting teachers, possibly as a practicum course
• Search for building for the school both now and in the future as the school grows
• Manage missions team schedules as related to secondary school (future)

 Future Dreams

• Crops sown, reaped, and replanted for the entire community
• Connect the carpenter’s workshop with the school as an apprenticeship, tech-school, and/or carpentry classes
• Create Zambrano Business Person’s Association that meets regularly to discuss ways of improving the community through their influence
• Connect the above Association with the school in having the business owner’s teach a class or address a class/school

What does Marcy do?

Specific Ministry 'To-Dos'

New Generation Church

• Associate Pastor
• Preach/teach Saturday adult service (3 pm)
• Tuesday and Thursday Corporate prayer (future)
• Teach Wednesday women’s discipleship (4 pm) (future)
• Learn Spanish worship songs, create worship team(s), conduct rehearsals
• Create team ministry (greeters, ushers, etc.) and guideline/handbooks (future)
• Special Events (healing school/services, vision seminars, etc.) (future)

Outreach

• Evangelism (prayer walking, door to door ministry, bike trips, teams, events, etc.)
• Equipping the saints (from the local body) for the work of ministry (go into schools, parks, villages)
• Community classes (people empowering people) (future)

General Ministry

• Help with evangelism and outreach (bike trips, events, etc.)
• Help with planning and participate with teams
• Assist Mayra with distribution packaging of b-day, Christmas, and school items to be given away.
• Secretarial help (scheduling, typing, filing, flyers, brochures, newsletters, charts, handbooks, etc.)
• Assist with construction and agricultural projects as needed

Future Dreams

• Bible school (training center)
• Church planting
• Radio Station (Christian music and messages)
• International Missions

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