It is designed to take the place of your main church service over a 5 week period, but can be used as an additional weekly event, perhaps on an evening. It will however work best at the time and place of your main weekly church service. Why? Well, that is when your church members will come, and also when many outsiders might expect to occasionally come to church. If it is felt that more non Christians would come on a Saturday night (for example) rather than a Sunday morning, then your fellowship should be prepared to make Saturday night their main service, at least for the duration of Dying to Meet You. The key to the success of this or any other evangelistic programme, is the involvement and commitment of the whole church!

There is a 6 month lead in and preparation period to the month of mission. This period and the material provided are designed to inform, excite and involve your church members. There are also suggested community action ideas to use, by which you can show love in action to your community, and let them know that you are dying to meet them! The lead in period culminates with teaching materials designed for home group use, which will give each member of your fellowship the incentive, tools and hopefully the motivation to be involved in various ways and to invite their friends, family, neighbours and work colleagues to Dying to Meet You.

On each of the five Sundays of mission, the whole programme is based around the theme for that week. The programme will consist of songs, video clips, testimonies and a preached presentation of the gospel, using the theme as the springboard. Many of the tools (video clips, song suggestions etc) are provided in the
pack.

A Sunday school, or children’s church runs simultaneously, based on the same themes using quizzes, games, songs, crafts and Bible stories.