How do I begin a Chaplaincy program?
*Know that you've been 'called...
- ...I mean called by God…revealed through impression, comments, and circumstance...
- it is that knowing that you kn...Jeremiah 17:7
*Gather people around you who know how to pray...
- ...bathe your dream with prayer...let it take time...gather others who will stand by you...you may have to work at something else until this happens...don't be 'too spiritual' to work…
*Focus your interest into a key area...
- ...be more specific than 'outside the church'...be more specific than 'for a great corporation'
- ...seek wise counsel...'where has God given you favour?'
*Take your most loyal person with you to visit the person who is crucial...
- ...this may not be the head of the corporation...or the director of the Airport...it may the real estate director, or shopping mall manager, or personnel director...
*Allow them to be negative and uninterested...
- ...many times they think of you as 'far fetched' or 'stay in the church'...but, you're putting the seed idea in their head...
*Call back in about a week...
- ...this is just about enough time for the idea to germinate...maybe an event has happened...'Boy, I wish we'd had a Chaplain!'...that's just what you need for God to work...
*Continue to talk as if this is happening and gather financial pledges according to the budget you've determined...
- ...the results my still be negative...but, do not 'look to the right or the left'...Habakkuk 3:17, 18. 19 remind us of our responsibility...Proverbs 18:21 the possibility...
*You may decide to work somewhere else but you must know God has sent you...
- ...another job site will only be for a season...don't let the 'Love' God has given you fade way through discouragement...
*Don't give up! Keep planning! Form the 501.c3...'Pray', 'Fast' and 'Cry Out'...
- ..it is discouraging to have a dream and not see it mature...but when you've prayed, fasted and bowed on your knees to cry out, you've done all you can do...we care about dreams...
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