RTF Issue-Focused Ministry Publications

There are two Proclaiming His Word publications (plus Questionnaire and Seminar Guide) designed to work together to provide the Church and Cell/Small Group Leader with everything he needs for Issue-Focused Ministry.  These publications, the Leader's Guide and the Member's Guide, effectively allow us to "be there" with each Church or Cell/Small Member and Leader. These publications allow us to guide the Leader as he takes the Church or Cell/Small Group Member through the four ministry areas as they apply to one issue or problem in his life.

In 2003, we also released a Youth version of these publications.  They are in color and have been "translated" into youth language.  They are well suited for an adult team, or a team of one adult and one youth, taking another youth through the RTF ministry.

Member's Guide

This sixteen page publication prepares the Member for the Restoring The Foundations Issue-Focused Ministry.

• It allows the Member to come ready for ministry, with understanding and with faith.
• It teaches him about the four problem/ ministry areas and how they are interrelated.
• It teaches him how his Leader is going to minister to him, using a issue/problem approach.
• It prepares him as he completes the included Questionnaire, which will help him and his Leader focus on one problem, issue, or topic during his ministry time.
• It prepares him to cooperate with his Leader and with the Holy Spirit, so that the Leader can maximize the ministry time and minimize the teaching and explanation time.

Leader's Guide

This publication contains the details, with everything the Leader is to do, from start to finish. It shows the step-by-step process, from the Interview to the Closing Prayer.

• It includes details such as the ministry steps, sample prayers, teaching aids, and things to consider.
• It has preparation/instructional pages, to remind the Leader what he learned in the RTF Activation Seminar, and to guide him as he prepares to minister.
• It shows him how to analyze the information on the Member's Questionnaire.
• It provides him a short, simple "how to" book that functions as a "security blanket" while he is getting past the initial barriers of intimidation and inadequacy.
• It helps insure that he ministers to the main roots associated with his Member's problem, that they will be brought into the open, faced, and dealt with.
• It provides him a reference publication that he can go back to, even after he has become proficient in providing RTF Issue-Focused Ministry to his Church or Cell/Small Group Members.