Development Plan: the Next Steps (Spring 2025)

The Past

Building on the experience, training and teaching gained from many years of doing related work in the field of evangelisation, education and formation, over the last 9 years Andrew has led many sessions and entire courses for people under the name and aims of The Kerygma Project.

Various local groups have been established – with interest in more.  A clear but flexible approach has evolved for these. Many resources been developed to teach, train and sustain people as evangelists, alongside more general Christian formation.

Various outreach activities have been undertaken, some generating further resources. Most notable is the ‘Who is Jesus? Course, running over about 15 sessions and including hospitality, a talk and discussion.  This has been run a number of times, allowing for it to be improved by actual use.

A team of core collaborators has emerged and continues to grow and be shaped.  Wider support has also emerged, and also interest in the work, use the resources, and encouragement to develop it further.  This includes those who are committed to pray for our work in a serious and regular way.

The Present

Wider interest exists in the resources and the ways of evangelising that they embody.
We would like to be able to respond to this interest.

The intention is to refine the existing resources and make them more generally available. We anticipate doing a lot of it through making resources available free on the internet. We want videos etc and supporting documents to be of a good quality.

In some cases, this requires more road testing. In other cases, it is more a matter of deciding on publication formats and finding partners / making arrangements to bring this about.

During this refinement and work towards more general publication, it will continue to be helpful to identify and work with a few more pilot groups or individuals (either new groups using these resources, and / or existing groups known or becoming known either to us or evangelisation trainers) who are willing to try them out in close consultation with us and provide feedback.

While we are doing this, we also plan to build up prayer support for The Kerygma Project and for evangelisation more generally.  We will also try to work with church leaders to help them foster mission / evangelisation, whether with our resources or other approaches.

All of this will include building up and communicating with a contact base:

1. people interested in using the resources when they become available.
2. links with organisations and individuals doing similar or related work for the sake of collaboration, and mutual support and learning.
3. a base of intercessors to pray
4. people to support in other ways.

(Some people may be in several or even all of these categories.)

The Future

We plan to make our current core resources available, and offer training and support and mentoring in their use.  This is a priority and we are trying to register as an Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation to make it easier to receive funds to take this work forward.

We will monitor developments as resources are used, and respond with further training and resources as appropriate.

Hopefully we will bring people using the resources into contact with each other to enhance learning and effectiveness (and hopefully provide encouragement and fellowship).

We will also try to work with church leaders to help them foster mission / evangelisation, whether with our resources or other approaches.

We aim to continue to foster prayer for our work and that of evangelisation more generally.

We will build up processes to record use of our resources further afield, and get feedback and plan future resources and further training and other support in the light of this.

 For Projected Titles (based on material already in good draft form) see Resources page