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Copyright © 2009 by George Patterson and Galen Currah
May be copied and published freely.

This document compares traditional classroom instruction with extension education that includes mentoring. Mentoring is defined as “training new leaders in the way that Jesus and his apostles did, by listening before instructing, planning for immediate application, assigning Bible and other readings to meet urgent needs of leaders’ flocks, praying with them, and empowering them to train others in turn.”

Four urgent reasons to compare classroom with extension training include these:

One of our emphasis is to help provide training materials for those of you who will be introducing house church planting concepts.

The three attached documents were created for the context of the church planting workshop in Oregon.  However, it can be used in almost any context.

Feel free to revised and update the booklet as you see fit.

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I recently sent out my my newsletter summarizing one of my many trips overseas to mentor/coach a house church planting movement in Asia.

Here is the paragraph that seems to have sparked much interest.

“House church planting has become (perhaps already has been for awhile) the new way to make money in Asia (country changed).  Proclaim you have many house churches and there will be someone most willing to throw money at you (in US dollars none the less).  This drives me insane on several levels. First, many of the claims are false – double-triple counting people, claiming those that are not theirs, etc.  Second, just gathering some believers in a house does not make a house church. Even worse, leaving them with no nurturing – just as bad as leaving a child – it’s called abuse. There will be a terrible day of accounting for these supposed ‘leaders’.”