Gather Your Team
Pray, share vision, strategize, and include the key leaders who see your church from different angles.
The Get Engaged Model
Engage Your Church
Build Leadership Pipelines
Plant Churches
People come to church because they want to engage. Ministry leaders want people to engage. The disconnect is often the system—the clear pathway that helps people see where to start and how to grow.
Engage the whole churchDevelop leadersPrepare church-planting teams
GET
ENGAGED
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ENGAGED
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StartFind a clear first step
EngageJoin a ministry team
LeadUse your gifts
DevelopGrow in your gifting
The disconnect
The desire is there. The pathway often isn’t.
People want to engage, and ministry leaders want them engaged. But when the steps are assumed instead of clearly defined, many people remain lost in the system. GEM helps a church make every step visible.
Why Engage the Church…the people who make up your congregation?
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It’s Biblical
Every believer is a vital member of Christ’s body, gifted by the Spirit and needed by the whole.
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It defines success
God is glorified, the church is edified, and people find joy in using the gifts God has given them.
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It’s what leaders do
Leaders equip the saints for the work of ministry rather than carrying the ministry alone.
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It builds relationships
Serving together creates purposeful relationships through which people become known and connected.
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It changes lives
People grow as their gifts are exercised, encouraged, and developed in the life of the body.
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It creates freedom and joy
Shared ministry frees leaders from exhaustion and helps the whole church experience participation.
“Systems build culture that launch and sustain vision.”From Engage the Church
Built together
From a blank page to a living leadership pipeline.
Your team builds the GEM as a pyramid: Steps 1–4 form the behind-the-scenes base; Steps 5–9 put that foundation into practice.
Build the base
Complete the vision, organizational chart, job descriptions, and training before inviting people.
Implement the GEM
Attract, build, connect, develop, and evaluate through the normal rhythms of ministry.
Multiply your ministry and church
Develop ministry teams that multiply and can become core teams for future church plants.
The book’s nine-step process
A complete process your team can actually use.
The framework and wording below come directly from Engage the Church.
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Pray and DreamDevelop a vision
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Organizational ChartBuild the ministry structure
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Job DescriptionsDefine each role
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TrainingDevelop the training
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AttractGet people involved
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BuildGet people trained
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ConnectGet people connected
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DevelopGet people to the next level
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EvaluateEvaluate constantly
Build leaders. Multiply ministry. Plant churches.
Build it with your team. Use it in every ministry. Prepare leaders to be sent.