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Paul-Timothy Training Menu
A NOTE TO NEW USERS AND TRANSLATORS
ORIENTATION TO USE THIS MENU

Select from this menu the Sections and Levels that your people currently need to learn or have translated. Choose menu options as needs arise.

Look over the fourteen Menu Sections. Each Section deals with a church ministry required in the New Testament. A trainee may work on several sections at the same time. To see their contents, click on Menu Sections. If using this menu for the first time, start in Section 13, Training Leaders.

Translators: please discuss with coworkers which sections to do first.

*Select menu sections according to needs* (below)**	Sections (below)
To explain salvation in Christ and establish new believers in the faith	01 Evangelism and Basic Discipling
For more loving interaction and a truly Spirit-filled church	02 Fellowship.
To reach people far away, teach God's guidelines for His 'sent ones'	03 Foreign Missions
To strengthen families, apply God's rules for happy homes	04 Marriage and Family
To start churches or cells, apply God's guidelines for a church body	05 New Churches & Home Groups
To name new leaders and help them to lead using God's guidelines	06 Overseeing & Planning
For your people's daily private and family devotions, interceding, etc.	07 Prayer and Spiritual Warfare
To serve the sick, forsaken and destitute within the church and without	08 Serving the Needy
To pastor God's flock using His Word to define how to do all ministries	09 Shepherding the Flock
To counsel or correct people with personal or family problems	10 Member Care and Counseling
For your people to follow God's guidelines for giving generously	11 Stewardship
To apply biblical truths in a way that changes lives and yields service	12 Teaching
To prepare pastors, evangelists, church planters and missionaries	13 Training Leaders
To 'break bread' and worship as a group, following biblical guidelines	14 Worship

Each ministry section has three levels. Begin with the level that fits the needs of those you train. The three levels are 1) Foundation (to begin), 2. Pastoral and 3. Advanced.

Translators: finish Level 1 (Foundation) first, unless urgent needs require something from levels 2 or three. Translate the sections most urgently needed first. Keep adding the rest. Add the linked items (that one clicks on) when the need arises. Do not delay training until translation is done.

Trainers do five things in each mentoring session.
Please remember them: Listen, Plan, Review, Assign, Pray.

Listen to your trainees' report, on what ministry they and their churches or cells have done since your last meeting. Compare it with the plans they made in the last session. Listen for needs and ministry opportunities. Hold them accountable to carry out their plans. Limit the number of trainees in a session to as many as you can talk with personally.

Plan. Help trainees plan ministry activities that fit immediate and long-range needs and ministry opportunities. Use this menu to locate activities and teaching that the trainees or their people need. Record their plans. Avoid discussing only problems.

Review studies, reading or research done. An oral report may suffice.

Assign items in this menu, reading or research according to the plans. Select from among the options offered those that fit the need. Do not assign so much that a trainee cannot complete it.

Pray for God's guidance first, for any serious needs during the session, and for each other and their plans at the end.

Locate the different types of menu options by their symbols.
The main four symbols are shown below. See others under Legend.

= Tasks options

= Scripture study options

2 = Document options to view, copy or translate

= Research Options

Mentor new leaders in your church, new churches, cell groups or ministry task group.

Have separate sessions for serious leaders. They cannot raise difficult questions about their flock when its members are present. Do not let sessions become another Sunday School class, lacking leader-level discipline.

Follow up plans. Bring to each session your copy of plans made by each trainee during the last session. Compare trainees' reports with the plans they agreed to carry out last time. Hold them accountable to follow up their own plans.

Help those you mentor to mentor others for a chain reaction. To assure continued growth through the multiplication of churches and home groups, require every pastoral leader in training to train his own Timothies, as in 2 Timothy 2:2.

Keep discussing the vision. Continually encourage your trainees and keep the vision before them.

Menu Sections — Legend (icons)

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