Application for Becoming a Greenhouse Environment (GHE)

Click here to download and print this form as a worksheet to complete with your leadership team. Upon completion, please submit your answers in this online form.

Name of the Environment:

Name of the Coordinator of the GHE Experience:

Coordinator Contact Information:

General Questions

Describe the nature of the environment (established church, church plant, inner city ministry, international ministry, etc.).

Describe the unique characteristics of the environment that help determine the type of experience a resident might have at the GHE.

Describe the work Jesus seems to be doing in your ministry during this particular season.

Why do you feel as though your environment would make a healthy, fruitful GHE?

What deficiencies would need to be addressed in preparation for becoming a GHE?

Embracing Central Region Mandate, Cultural Core, Values, and Outcomes

Please review the shared MANDATE and CULTURAL CORE of the Central Region of the C&MA:

The Central Region of the Alliance is made up of 9 districts and 3 ethnic associations. In our region there are around 170,000 people in over 600 C&MA churches. What if we worked together? What if the King gave us all the same burden, same dream, and same expectations? What kind of impact could we have together for the advancement of God's Kingdom? Here is what we share:

Shared MANDATE – to tenaciously pursue the evangelization of 80 plus million people and the discipleship of the responsive.

Shared STRATEGIES –

Create an infectious and effective culture around a core of Divine expectation and engagement, Disciplemaking, Leadership development, Mobilized ministries , and Church planting.
Implementation of pipelines that utilize the process of Discover, Develop, and Deploy.
Utilization of Greenhouse Environments – which are intentional environments that catalyze the holistic development and strategic deployment of emerging leaders called to greater Kingdom impact.
Partnerships with District initiatives that help the region achieve its shared mandate and outcomes.

Are you willing to engage in the effort of the entire region around these shared convictions?

Please describe the degree to which you feel your environment can embrace these shared convictions?

Where might your environment struggle to embrace these convictions?

Please review the shared VALUES of the Central Region of the C&MA:

Holy Spirit Dependence - God-sized work done in deep dependence
Collective Ownership – shared responsibility of our regional geography and strategies
Multiculturalism – diversity which allows us to reach the 80+ and beyond
Deep and wide collaboration – sharing everything within and beyond the C&MA
Utilization of the ordinary – Kingdom deployment of ordinary people, places and ministries
Tenacious pursuit – intentional and aggressive realization of agreed upon outcomes
Appropriate deployment - enhanced productivity and mitigating devastation
Multiplication – exponential increase

Where do you find these values already being lived out in your environment?

Where do you find these values NOT yet being lived out in your environment? What plans do you have to see the values embraced in a greater way?

Please review the shared OUTCOMES of the Central Region of the C&MA:

Disciple Making

Transformation into the Character and Priorities of Christ
Culture and practice of ongoing disciple making
Kingdom and multi-cultural oriented lifestyle

Emerging Leadership Development

Comprehensive Health
Spiritual Intimacy
Self-awareness
Character
Disciplines
Knowledge
Competencies
Proper deployment

Ministry Mobilization

Culture and practice of Divine expectation and engagement
Culture and practice of healthy interdependent plurality of leadership
Culture and practice of balanced ministry (reaching, discipling, equipping, adoring)
Culture and practice of directional clarity, ownership and engagement
Culture and practice of multiplication (disciples, leaders, missional presence, planting)
Culture and practice of clarity and fruitful engagement of Acts 1.8 environments
Culture and practice of Kingdom collaboration

Church Planting

Healthy individuals and teams appropriately assessed, developed and deployed
Churches and collaborations engaged in church planting
Church plants reflecting the outcomes of mobilized ministries

Describe the effort of making disciples in your environment (seeking to address the stated outcomes of Disciple Making in your response).

Describe the current approach to developing emerging leaders in your environment (seeking to address the stated outcomes of Emerging Leadership Development in your response).

Describe the overall level of impact your ministry is having on lives, communities, and cultures around you (seeking to address some of the stated outcomes of Ministry Mobilization in your response).

Describe the nature and overall health of the leadership teams within your environment (seeking to address some of the stated outcomes of Ministry Mobilization in your response).

Describe your current or desired future engagement in church planting (seeking to address the stated outcomes of Church Planting in your response).

Possessing the Right Capacities: Time, Leaders, and Resources

Please identify the types of ministry opportunities and exposure the Resident would have opportunity to participate in.

Please identify at least 3 leaders who would be able to invest in the Resident and describe the role each leader might play in the Resident’s experience.

Please identify how your environment might be able to provide (either directly or indirectly):

HOUSING - Select One

Housing is the responsibility of the Resident

Housing will be provided by the GHE

A housing allowance will be provided by the GHE

HEALTHCARE - Select One

Healthcare is the responsibility of the Resident

Healthcare will be provided by the GHE

HALF-TIME JOB - Select all that apply

The Resident is required to work a Part Time job in the community

MINISTRY STIPEND - Select One

There WILL be a stipend provided by the GHE

There WILL NOT be a stipend

The RESIDENT must provide a tuition

How many hours per week will the Resident serve at the environment?

Additional Documents

1. A recent financial summary statement for the environment

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2. A brief history of the environment

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3. A statement of mission, vision, etc., of the environment

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