40 Days of Building Relationships Campaign

Aim of the Campaign

This new campaign called ‘Building Relationships’ with God’s Love has been revised and adapted from the original teaching by Rick Warren and his team so that UK churches can easily  use this resource.  The campaign is based on 1 Corinthians 13 and looks at applying God's love into our relationships, church, home and all personal situations.

We have spent many months ensuring that our UK culture is carefully considered in the presentation of these materials and that any 'americanisms' that may cause confusion have been removed. In addition the six weeks small group DVD teaching will be taught by Rev David Beer and the Sunday School and youth resources have been compiled by a group of UK youth leaders.

We are confident that this resource will be suitable for a wide range of church sizes and denominations in the UK.

We have changed the structure of the campaign so that churches can start at any time of the year, however most churches will plan to start from September 21st 2008 (Autumn) and 1st March 2009 (Lent).  Start date for Autumn 2009 would be the 13th September.  Setting you own start date will mean you will not be able to receive the regular weekly emails ( 40 Days of Purpose and 40 Days of Community campaigns).  Please contact us if you have any  other questions on start dates.

Action

We have simplified the process of ordering campaign resources.  You now have two alternatives:

Option 1.  Direct access to all campaign resources through this web site. 

You do not have to register and you can choose the resources you need for your church campaign, small group or personal study.  All resources will be priced as shown plus post and packing.

SIMPLY CLICK THE RESOURCES BUTTON AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE AND CHOOSE YOUR RESOURCES.

Option 2.  Register for a campaign and receive the following additional benefits:

• 25% discount on listed prices for all campaign resources
• 25% discount on non-campaign resources to enable you to continue using  Purpose Driven resources after the campaign
• Receive a full leadership registration pack with leaders helps, planning sheets, transcripts, Power-Points and resources. The pack also includes one sample of most of the resources and ordering details.
• Receive our support and experience in helping you to run your campaign
• Cost of registration and pack: £120.00 for larger churches and £60.00 for smaller churches. (We define a larger church as having more than 60 members in regular attendance.)

TO REGISTER COMPLETE THE REGISTRATION FORM BELOW AND RETURN  TO THE OFFICE WITH PAYMENT. WE WILL SEND YOU A REGISTRATION PACK AND CUSTOMER CODE TO RECEIVE YOUR DISCOUNT ON RESOURCES.

What’s in the Registration Pack?

The Building Relationships Book.  This is the backbone of the Campaign. As each person in your church reads through the book , one chapter a day for 40 Days, they will begin to understand the depth of the biblical teaching on God’s love. The small group study is included in this book.

DVD and CD containing training sessions that coach your Campaign Team to effectively guide your congregation through the 40 Days  Campaign.

Campaign Manual offering detailed timelines and leaders guidelines.

DVD with seven short dramas to help in your presentations for adults and youth

Sample of Bookmarks with memory verses

Sample of Lobby Posters. Sample posters to promote your 40 Days of Purpose Campaign

Sample of Action Cards to encourage people to reach out to others

Youth and Sunday School resources are available from the resources section on this web site.

Additional Information

Key topics covered by the daily reading book 'Building Relationships ' and the small group studies:

Week 1.  Love- the key to life
Week 2.  Starting and Cultivating Relationships
Week 3.  Recognising and overcoming hidden dangers
Week 4.  Our personality is changed
Week 5.  Starting and deepening our relationship with God
Week 6.  When relationships go through difficult times

Key topics covered by the weekly sermon transcripts:

Week 1.  What matters most
Week 2.  Love is kind
Week 3.  Love does not envy
Week 4.  Love is humble
Week 5.  Love is respectful
Week 6.  Love is patient
Week 7.  Love is forgiving

1.  We prefer if you run your campaign during the autumn period (start September) or Lent (start February) but this is not compulsory and we will willingly supply resources throughout the year.

2. Churches now have the option to customise their implementation of the campaign by choosing the resources they need. We would however strongly recommend that churches register and complete the full campaign for maximum impact.  The power and impact of the Campaign is best captured by the principle of “multiple reinforcement.” This means that the themes of the Campaign are reinforced by layering the same message as it is repeated from several perspectives: the Weekend Services, the weekly bible studies, the daily personal readings, and the weekly memory verse. All of these are essential to experience the full power of the Campaign. To extract any of the pieces means you minimize the impact.

3. Churches can team up with other churches but should still register as separate centres to help us with co-ordination and support.

4. All church sizes can complete a campaign. We have had small churches, as low as fifteen members; successfully complete a ‘Small Church’ campaign.

5. You can change your presentation  to your particular church style and denomination, you will select delivery mechanisms that suit your church culture. The campaign materials are designed in such a way as to give you maximum flexibility to customize everything so that it fits into your context, while still enabling you to deliver a message that’s consistent with biblical principles. We’ve heard story after story from “traditional” churches whose members were skeptical about this campaign working in their setting, but who were enthusiastic about it by the end of the first weekend after they saw lives changed through the power of the biblical truths presented during 40 Days.