IMPORTANT FIELDWORK DETAILS Definitions and Time Frame

DEFINITIONS Our understanding affects the way we do things. In S.O.S., we have formulated our definitions of terms related to the work of evangelism and church planting.

1. CONTACT - Is one who had initial exposure to the gospel through any of the evangelistic methods used in the large group meetings, small group meetings or personal efforts of team members. A contact may initially have a positive or negative response.
2. GOOD CONTACT - is one who is able to make a decision for Jesus Christ, showed positive response and is open for a Bible study. For example: in tabulating results of S.O.S. work, little children or the mentally retarded are not to be counted in the number of good contacts.
3. A CONVERT - is one who is being led through the doorways of the conversion experience; namely: repentance, faith, baptism in water and baptism in the Holy Spirit. At the end of the three week field work, the converts will vary in the extent of their conversion experience. In tabulating results, those who have been processed completely through the four doorways and those that are still being processed will all be counted as converts.
4. A CORE GROUP MEMBER – a convert who has meaningfully and intelligently committed as part of the local body of believers. He must have signed the `Church Birth Certificate’.

FIELD WORK TIME FRAME

1. Confront – is done throughout the field work period. Prayer, intercession and spiritual warfare should be maintained. The team should always take the offensive side, not the defensive side – as in praying only when there are difficulties encountered.
2. Contact – the number of days to focus in getting contacts depends on the receptivity of the people. For example; after five days, the team has gathered 300 good contacts – it will be wise to stop getting more new contacts and concentrate leading the good contacts through the conversion process. If by the middle of the second week, the targeted number of converts is not reached, some of the team members can still be mobilized to get more new contacts. New contacts towards the end of the 3rd of the week will most likely be those invited by the converts themselves.
3. Convert – starts as soon as there are good contacts and openings for Bible study and lasts through the end of the field work.



4. Congregate – some things related to congregate are also accomplished as conversion activities are done. But towards the third week, deliberate efforts should be done in preparing the converts for the Grand Opening Service and forming the core group.
5. Consolidate – fusing of Bible studies into large ones is better done earlier in the third week Summarizing the results and organizing the records should be done carefully and should last through the Monday after the Grand Opening Service.