Acts 1:8 Rally and Celebration Events
An Acts 1:8 Challenge Rally or
Celebration Event is designed to assist churches
launching the Acts 1:8 Challenge. These events can also be used as an ongoing
celebration of what God is doing as a result of a church's Great Commission /
Acts 1:8 commitment.
One day or multi-day events may be organized and held for individual
churches, a group of churches or through the leadership of the association
and/or state convention. The Acts 1:8 Challenge Event Planning Guide is
available by request to assist leaders in planning these events. Associations
may want to use these events as an alternative to On Mission Celebrations, and
state conventions may use them as "regional rallying events" to help
associations and their churches catch a vision for an Acts 1:8 paradigm of
missions.
NEW: Download theActs
1:8 Challenge Event Planning Guide.
A sample schedule of what an Acts 1:8 Challenge Rally or Celebration event
can look like in your church or association is available below.
Purpose: To bring church-wide awareness to the Acts 1:8
paradigm of missions and to encourage Southern Baptists and their churches to
embrace the Acts 1:8 Challenge to mobilize beyond the walls of their
church.
Suggested components for an Acts 1:8 Challenge 1-Day Rally
event:
1) Held on a Saturday or Sunday
2) Disaster Relief Unit feeding / Food of the Nations / Ethnic
(People Groups)
3) Missions Fair
* Games for kids
* Exhibits with missionaries (local, state,
national, international)
* Exhibits with Acts 1:8 partners
(association, state convention, NAMB, IMB)
4) Breakout Sessions
* Adopt a People Group / Missionary
* Life of an Missionary Kid, etc.
* Prayerwalking
* Family Missions Trips
* Becoming an Acts 1:8 Christian
5) Rally / Celebration Servivce
* Worship
* Missionaries speak / interviewed
* Acts 1:8
Challenge message
* Music /
videos
* Drama
6) Mission Action (learning
models)
* Service project in
the community
* Block Party
* Acts of kindness
* Evangelistic outreach (ICE team,
etc.)
7) Banquet in the Evening (Saturday or
Sunday)
* Missionaries
speak
* Inspirational message
* International or ethnic food, worship and
music
* These are only suggestions about how to plan a rally event in your church.
As your Acts 1:8 Challenge Event Planning Team makes plans for the
event, carefully consider the gifts and talents of not only the team, but of
other leaders and members of your church (children, youth and adults).
Download suggestions for anActs 1:8 Challenge
Rally (pdf)
3-Day Event Suggestions
Purpose: To bring church-wide awareness to the Acts 1:8
paradigm of missions and to encourage Southern Baptists and their churches to
embrace the Acts 1:8 Challenge to mobilize beyond the walls of their
church.
Friday Evening
- Missionary Banquet (speaker)
- Acts 1:8 Partner Exhibits (local association, state convention, NAMB, IMB)
Saturday
- Use components of Acts 1:8 1-Day Rally
event
- Plan age-appropriate service projects for morning/afternoon
Sunday
- Church-wide Acts 1:8 study in Sunday School
/ Small Groups
- Acts 1:8 Challenge sermon /
message in worship
- Church-wide missions meal with speaker
- Afternoon age-appropriate service project (if not done on Saturday)
- Acts 1:8 Partner Exhibits / Missions Fair
- Closing worship commitment celebration during evening service
* Advantages of local church Acts 1:8 Challenge Celebration
event:
* Coordinated effort, personalization
through missionary speakers
* Cost / planning time reduced
* Church initiates; not limited to large
churches
* If done in a church, the local director
of missions can assist the church in planning the experience
Download suggestions for an Acts
1:8 Challenge Celebration(pdf)