5c0tt J. Brenden
Casas Global Outreach
Giving a Report on your Global Trip
For a
traditional (upfront) presentation of a trip the outline is as follows.
Have a visible emcee who facilitates the presentation, The emcee should plan it and assign who talks when and about what. He or she puts the pictures in order and make sure they are shown at the right time, etc. The emcee is a lot like the director of a film - you have a great story, now you need to tell the story well.
Structure of the Report:
a. Before you start - Pray before you go into the room. Then be excited about what God did on your trip, and what He will do during your report!
b. Info -
(1) Give a very short laundry list of info - where, when, what, why - purpose of team, members of team, location of ministry, who you served with.
(2) Give comparisons (about the size of Tucson/Los Angeles/etc.)
(3) If your people group was least-reached, say so and give its name.
(4) Explain how your Bible Fellowship took a role in your trip through funding, commissioning and praying.
(5) Describe how Casas Global Outreach Funding helped you go on your trip. i.e.: insurance paid by Casas Global Outreach, materials and supplies that were paid by GO or long–term workers who are partially paid by GO funds.
c. Heart- Most of the time should be spent on the relational incidents and what you saw God do incidents
(1) Stories - Pick five stories, and help the team format them into stories (intro the characters, conflict, resolution of conflict, and tie up loose ends) add details in character development and creation of conflict you want people to feel the emotions you felt and imagine the scene that you saw.
(2) Pictures - Only show those pictures that relate to the stories no more, no less and do not comment on the pictures sense the story explains them. The pictures add to the story not the other way around. Eliminate what you don’t need such as city shots or unnecessary shots of yourself or the people you especially liked that have nothing to do with the story you are telling. Avoid the phrase, “and in this next picture…” A general rule of thumb is to have about one picture per minute; 30 pictures total.
(3) Each member - Have 2-4 team members share for 60 seconds each (with a timer) on the most meaningful part of the trip for them. This is the bullet point for them, the take away lesson. What it did in them, how this moment has and will change their life. For example, "At that moment I realized we are probably the only Christ followers out of all of these people.”
(4) Vision - Emcee shares why it is so important for Americans to join God in China. This is the part where you share your passion and allow God to use your words and heart to touch the hearts of those who hear you. This is often when people feel God calling them to join Him.
(5) Next Steps - Share the nitty gritty details of how people can be involved now. For example people can pray, they can give they can go on the next trip.
Talking about money - see http://www.gocasas.com/policy-fund.htm
Special situations:
a. If you were invited to give your report as part of the Principles of Global Outreach Series, make the presentation a maximum of 30 minutes. Presentations should also allow time for questions from the class; this is the standard teaching mode for the Outreach lessons. Under no circumstances go over!
b. For a less traditional (sitting in a circle) presentation, ask two or three people to each ask a specific question to get things started and then let the others jump in.
c. If you're feeling like doing something really different, you could make your presentation into a game show quiz with people holding up signs or raising their hands or holding up a red card or a blue card, boys vs. girls, etc., give prizes for winners, or make people do activities like on Survivor like solving a giant jigsaw puzzle to go on to the next section, etc.