Orientation Week Outreach 2017 |
Dedicate 5 hrs over the course of one week to reaching the lost and you could change a life forever!
When those who initially speak with a student are the ones who follow up with them, it GREATLY increases the chance that that person will get involved...and that they will encounter or re-encounter Christ in a way that can change their lives. It also models the primary mission and identity of the Church, which we are all entrusted with...evangelization. The commitment we're posing to you is 5 hours over the course of a week: 2 hours of tabling, one hour of phone calls, and two hours of in-person meet-ups (keep on reading if you can't commit to that...you can still be involved!).
Here's the mission, should you choose to accept it:
1. Pick ONE shift during ONE of our 4 outreach days. You are welcome to pick more shifts if you have more time on your hands, but please recognize that you'll be encouraged to follow up with all the people you talk to. However, if you end up with LOTS of people to call, we'll certainly arrange for some of your contacts to be contacted by front desk staff or other students to lighten the load!
2. During that shift, engage students in conversation and identify students who are interested in taking a faith study or getting involved at Newman.
3. Sometime soon after, either later that afternoon or the next day at the latest, call the students you spoke with whom you identified as "interested" and arrange for in-person follow-ups with them sometime that week. Follow-ups can be done at Newman, or a coffee shop, or anywhere that's convenient for you both.
4. At in person follow-ups, feel free to introduce them around Newman and show them the house if you decide to meet here, and invite them to take a faith study. If you have taken a faith study and are leading one, you can invite them to take one with you. Otherwise, we challenge YOU to take a faith study with that person!
We'll provide lots of training and support for you if you're open to doing follow-ups, but if for time or other reasons you're not able to commit to them, then that's no problem. You can indicate it below, and one of our front desk staff or another student will follow up with any students that you talk to.
In addition to the 4 Outreach Events, there are also 4 other events that we can use some help with: SnoCone give-aways, Popcorn give-aways, the NCSC opening BBQ, and the New Newmanite Supper. Feel free to sign up for whatever shifts you're free for on those four dates! Although we will still likely have some people sign up on those days, and although you are still welcome to follow up with people if you like, front desk staff are able to do follow-ups from any contact forms completed.
Thank you for being open to invest in someone's life in a way that could help them radically encounter the love of God...He'll do great things through you :-)