The Ten Year Plan

I see a church filled and empowered by passion for Jesus, people who love Him like the Father loves Him. I see people who know Him as friend and yet fear Him as the Sovereign of the universe. I see people firmly convinced of His love for them and because of that are free to be themselves. I see a church who loves people just because they are people, without regard to race or position. I see a church who aggressively pursues the advancement of the Kingdom of God on every front and in every place, unashamed of the gospel of Christ and firmly dedicated to sharing it all around the world. I see a church planting churches everywhere it can, both domestically and abroad. I see a church that prays, enhancing the work of the Holy Spirit and destroying darkness in cities and peoples' lives at home and around the globe. I see a church in worship, corporately declaring the praises of Him who called them out of darkness into His marvelous light. I hear music that gives life to all who hear, empowering people with fresh passion and strengthening them with joy all the while terrifying the powers of darkness.

I see a church constantly growing and constantly sending it's members out to do the work of the ministry. I see families built on the foundation of Scripture, serving as a testimony to the world that God's ways work. I see fathers leading and serving their families and families faithfully following dad's leadership. I see an army of young people, spiritually prepared, morally pure, and enthusiastically poised to be the "revival generation." I see a church who has learned that He is able to do exceeding abundantly more than they ask or imagine according to the power at work in them. I see a church whose greatest joy is to bring Him glory!
Michael Fletcher

1. Church Growth in members and cells groups
(1663 members and 115 cells at 10% annual growth)
Matt 28:18-20 "... make disciples ..."
Acts 1:8 "... in Jerusalem ..."

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Vision of Future Growth

Year	Member	Cells
2001	2012	140
2002	2213	154
2003	2434	169
2004	2677	186
2005	2945	205
2006	3239	226
2007	3563	249
2008	3919	274
2009	4311	301
2010	4742 (5000)	331

History of Growth

Year	Members	% Increase
1994	600
1995	700	16.6
1996	900	29.0
1997	1200	33.3
(5 year average = 23.3%)
1998	1550	29.1
1999	1663	7.2

Local Church Evangelism - Mark 16:15 " ... preach the gospel to every creature ..." Acts 1:8 "... in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria ..."
(Servant Evangelism, Direct Mail, "Season of Favor", etc) 10% annual increase in the number of people evangelized per year

Year	Evangelized
1999	62,500
2000	68,750
2001	75,625
2002	83,187
2003	91,505
2004	100,655
2005	110,720
2006	121,792
2007	133,971
2008	147,368
2009	162,104
2010	178,314

2. Church Planting - Through the end of 2010
Goal = 55 New First Decade Churches

   A. Foreign Church Planting -
       Matt 28:18-20 "... make disciples of all nations..."
       Acts 1:8 "... the uttermost parts of the earth..."
       1. Sensitive Areas- 30 (1 in 2000, 1 in 2001, 3 every year
           through 2010)
       2. One other foreign nation - 15 (1 in 2005, 2 in 2006, 3 every
           year through 2010)
       3. Romania/Moldova - 3

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   B. Domestic church planting -
       Matt 28:18-20 "... make disciples ..."
       Acts 1:8 "... in Judea, Samaria ..."
       1. Manna plants - 5 (Hope Mills, Spring Lake, Lumberton,
           Dunn, Siler City)
       2. Cooperative Church plants with GCI and Manna daughters -
           3 cooperative church plants

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   C. How?
       1. Sensitive Area's team
           a. Lead Evangelist - Tommy Cartwright
           b. Associate Evangelist
           c. Mechanical/Maintenance
           d. Advance man / Advertising
           e. Home Education aid
       2. Duplicate the Church Planting team in another nation
       3. Romania - ARC Ministries
       4. Hope Mills / Spring Lake - satellite churches inside the
           30 minute non-church planting zone.
           a. "Pastor" retains ministry position on Manna (Fay) staff
           b. "Church" functions as a "preaching point"
           c. Members of HM/SL are members of Manna (Fay)
       5. Tithes go to Manna
       6. Cells / ministries all through Manna
       7. Satellites raise up service support ministries
           (worship, children church, nursery, ushers, altar ministry            teams, etc)
       8. Manna Plants in cities outside the 30 minute zone - planted
           by planter with a church planting team and families from
           Manna or those already living in that city.
       9. Cooperative Church Plants - we will cooperate with other            planting churches to create a church planting team or by            providing families or individuals to supplement the church            planting process.

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   D. Total Church Plants to date = 32 (Goal was 33)
       1. Foreign Church Plants to date - 29 (direct plants and            partnership)
           a. Romania - 25
           b. Sensitive Areas- 4
       2. Domestic - 3 (Southern Pines = 350, Raeford = 150,
           Sanford = 70)

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