5 Ways to Turn Your Ministry Into a Movement
The Damascus Podcast
Most ministries never become movements. They run programs, hope people show up and burn out their leaders along the way. Dan DeMatte, co-founder and executive director of Damascus, has spent 25 years building one that didn't. Today it has three campuses, thousands of young people and hundreds of missionaries every year. In this Behind the Mission teaching, Dan walks through the five things every spiritual entrepreneur has to do to launch a movement: start with Jesus, create and cast a vision, build a team, provide excellent service and form missionaries instead of consumers. Along the way: why mediocre passion gets mediocre results, the worst church invitation ever given, the youth-group Sundays that built Damascus, and a parish-mission story about a father who invited his son one more time. If you lead anything for God, from a youth group to a parish ministry to a brand-new apostolate, send this to your team. Subscribe for more. The Damascus Podcast: raising up missionaries to take encounter to mission.