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Who What When Where Why How
"Getting the Great Commission Done...
TOGETHER... in Greater Indianapolis"
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In early 2021, we've conducted Christian collaboration within a goodly number of zipcodes, eg 46240 - a nice model, ministering to 100 households of immigrants, refugees and other low-income famiies at #LakesidePointe Apts neighborhood.
In early 2020, we quickly formed the Joint Christian Response here in the metro area, re the COVID19 situation.
Freshest info anytime @ReadyIndy
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Overall Indianapolis Situation Report: (SitRep)
There are 770,000 households comprising our 2,000,000 population in the Greater Indianapolis metro area. 13% of our adults hold a biblical/evangelical worldview. That’s up from 12% in 2014 report. National average went down, from 9% to 7% over that same period. (Barna Cities Report for 2017/2018)
Capabilities Report:
The 'Church at Indianapolis', imperfect as it is, is alive and well -- well, as well as it is in any stereotypical American city. Sadly, the Church is fractured and seldom considers itself as 'one' (together). But this is changing little by little: Great collaborations are underway. This year we'have aspired to identify those, zipcode by zipcode. Check out the Who What When Where Why How links above. (This 12/31/2020 overview is by Neil Cox @IndyChristian)
Objective:
"It is possible to express God’s love to every man, woman, young person in this city during this decade." (the shared objective of #Love2020)
During 2020, we aspire(d) to better #BeTheChurch... together. To demonstrate progress, we will identify (or catalyze) Christian collaborations in 55 of our 110 metro area zipcodes.
Strategies:
#1 Let's increasingly move toward PERVASIVE #neighboring operations throughout the metro area.
#2 And let's intentionally collaborate toward a CENTRALIZED Ops-Support Hub (Network) to expedite communications and prayer-care-share expertise, in support of the pervasive #neighboring operations mentioned above.
These two strategies are detailed below.
Pervasive #Neighboring Operations:
There are thousands of neighborhoods among our 110 zipcodes. But Barna City Report cited above indicates that 13% of our adults are bible-believing, practicing evangelicals. That's 250,000... or appx 1 home out of every 8 homes. We desire that the '1' home take responsibility for the other 7, living out a prayer-care-share lifestyle. Is that you? Get an account at BlessEveryHome (free individual account) to assist you.
Best of all, churches can get a BlessEveryHome account ($15/mo church account) and be able to connect all their people together, mapping to their neighborhoods and assisting them in reaching our city with the Good News.
Catch the vision - For instance, Kansas City now has over 2,000 neighborhood 'Lights'.
Stay in touch citywide via the Hub (below).
And here's our metro ministries map.
Fri., November 15, 2019, Christian leaders, liaisons, planners met to discuss developing 1 or more high-priorities for the body of Christ in Greater Indianapolis. Here are their working-conclusions. Learn how you, your neighborhood and your church can become part of the 2020 collaborative effort.
(Email PIO@ReadyIndy.org)
Centralized Support Hub:
The network of collaborative ministries may be called the OpsSupport Hub, or Prayer-Care-Share Hub, or JusticeHub. Point is: We need this centralized functionality... for communications, encouragement, expertise & training.
Here's a start: WhenYouNeedSomeone.org
And jump onto the ReadyIndy newsletter list... as they prepare ReadyChristians and ReadyChurches... in Indy... to become a ReadyCity. "Fit your feet with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace." (Eph6)
Communications Briefing:
When the mission is both urgent & important...
"Twitter is how we roll in Indy."
The @IndyTimeline account tweets & retweets upcoming events/activities you'd want to know about.
And here's the consolidated 2019 timeline.
(Want to get YOUR events onto the timeline?)
The 'Comm Team' twitter list-feed is comprised of tweets from over 200 of our most collaborative Indianapolis Christ-followers on Twitter.
Or check out this list-feed of over 200 Indy Churches here with an official twitter account.
Scoring what's most important:
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