2005 - Vol 1
HOW TO START AN ACTION GROUP
African Christian Action handing out balloons and tracts on National Women's Day. - Subscribe to the Christian Action magazine, P O Box 23632, Claremont, 7735, Cape Town.
- Sign up for the ACA e-groups: info@christianaction.org.za and for Christian News from CFT:
- Enroll as a member of Africa Christian Action.
- Obtain a copy of Make A Difference A Christian Action Handbook for Southern Africa.
- Recruit a friend or two and determine a date for your first Christian Action meeting.
- Write up a programme for your first Christian Action, Transformation Team or Reformation Society meeting including:
- Study the Scriptures.
- Review the action items of the most recent Christian Action magazine.
- Pray the Psalms.
- Print out the latest e-updates from ACA or Upcoming Events from the Christian Action website (www.christianaction.org.za)
- Discuss and decide on your projects:
- Setting up a book table at your church.
- Literature distribution at your local railway station or taxi rank.
- Enroll more subscribers for the Christian Action magazine.
- Set up a Salt & Light notice board at your church, keeping it current with interesting posters, newsletters and news cuttings.
- Advertise upcoming events e.g. Sanctity Life Sunday, National Day of Repentance, the Summit, Life Chain, National Women's Day outreaches, Reformation Conference, CFT Conference, etc.
- Organise a prayer vigil at your local hospital, abortion clinic, etc.
- Register your Christian Action group with ACA, let us know the name of your group, the area covered, the name of your Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, or any other office bearers or committee members, the date of your first meeting, your contact details including addresses, e-mails, telephone, fax and cell phones, your home church affiliations, occupations, skills and interests.
- If at all possible, enroll in the next Summit Youth Leadership and Worldview Training Programme.
- Do your utmost to take part in the next Week of Action Christian Action Training Course in Cape Town. This is a practical, intensive course that includes learning from past campaigns, practical skills in debating, radio phone in programmes, letters to the editor, submissions to government departments, outreaches, prayer vigils, evangelism, prayer and strategies for transforming your community.
- Plan to meet regularly (either once a month, twice a month or once a week). Decide on the best time and day of the week for your meeting.
- Recruit more friends to join your action group.
- Arrange for a guest speaker from ACA to minister at your school, college or church.
- Organise for a film showing (In Your Face, Luther, Eclipse of Reason, Window t the Womb, The Empty Embrace, The Hard Truth, etc.) at your church, youth group, school, university or workplace.
- Schedule an extended time of prayer with your action group. Pray through recent Christian Action magazines and Christian News from CFT updates. Pray the Psalms.
- Encourage your pastor to observe Sanctity Life Sunday each year on the closest Sunday to the legalisation of abortion in SA (1 February) and to promote International Life Chain Sunday (the first Sunday in October).
"Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them." Eph. 5:11