BUSY PEOPLE
Therefore, as you go, disciple all the nations (Mat 28:19  ISV) 

          ACTS OUTREACH PROGRAM is designed for busy people. As you stay in touch with your team members, you should be able to get with a partner and run out there and do some outreach when you have an extra hour or so. Your witnessing partner could be your wife or husband or another team member. It should be planned out in such a way so that you don’t get into another team’s territory, and where you leave off, you can take up right there next time. This is accomplished by maps and some very simple record keeping, and communication between team members.
          By using maps and territory assignments, there can be a long-term and systematic coverage of any given area. Proper record keeping will assure there to be proper follow up. Once the “track” is laid, then a person can quickly grab that hour of outreach without wasting time “re-inventing the wheel”. You’ll know exactly where you are to go. Every team can have their own “field” to work, until it is “gleaned” so the next one can be covered.
          Included in the planning and territory assignments, should be a systematic outreach/follow up to (a) one’s immediate neighborhood, (b) the area immediately surrounding the church, and (c) the upper middle class and affluent neighborhoods. Many times outreach is focused on the lower class people. There are just as many lost and miserable and sick people of the upper class as there are in the lower class. There are many Christians in the upper class that need ministry and encouragement in the faith. Everyone you meet is a ministry in some dimension.
          There should be contact with the middle and upper class that is pleasant, respectful, and to-the-point. You are busy people and they are busy people. Keep in mind that we are seed sowers. Have in mind to sow the seed and go on, but be sensitive to the Spirit for any in-depth ministry that opens up. In all contacts, let the attitude be in you of being a relaxed, pleasant, friend.
          Even if you can only go out to one or two houses at a time, that is better than nothing. It’s good to start with your neighbors and work your way out to other nearby neighborhoods. Every time they see you come and go, they are reminded of your visit and the message you gave them.
          It is helpful for team members to share cell phone and home numbers  and work schedules, and have those with each team member at all times. This will aid in being able to smoothly carry out the outreach efforts, plus, there could be a call for prayer support or for a testimony to be given.
          We need to carry a team attitude, very much like carrying out a strategic military operation, and, it should be conducted with the same commitment to accomplish the mission that is set before us.
          Once this program is “ignited” in any give area, its flame can be spread by word of mouth. Even if the “igniter” has moved on to another territory, the program is designed to be “self propagating.” A couple of people can get together and access the web page and get the program and start doing the work of outreach and sharing the program with others. It will need to be printed out and put in a 3-ring binder for all to have in hand.
          The program is designed so that a lot of lengthy meetings are not required. The meeting is in the material of the ACTS Outreach Program. When you share the idea of the need of outreach, interested people will respond. Refer them to the material so they can read it and set a time to get together with a map and determine the area you are going to “touch”, then just get out there and do it. We are discussing the mechanics here, but we need to remember that everything is to be bathed in prayer, trusting God to guide every step.
          Have a records section in your binder so you can keep track of where you are to go, where you went, and who you contacted. You can carry an inconspicuous pocket pad which is sufficient to write names and addresses and numbers and date of contact, for follow up. These can be transferred to whatever means you are going to use to permanently keep up with the people you contact, either with a hand written record in your binder or by computer.
          A tract, flyer, or brochure that has your name and the church name and contact information, should always be left with the people, but not forced. The simple gospel message should be printed on whatever you leave. The gospel is the power of God to save those who believe. Our mission is to get the gospel into people’s hearts and operating in their lives. We contact, God converts. And, always remember, God is always on the job to convert, at some level or another, through the presentation of the gospel of Jesus.