Great Commission Course 23 June - 12 July 2006 Cape Town

"Expect great things from God ... attempt great things for God."

Do you want to change your world?

Join other Christians who are dedicated to making Christ's Great Commission our supreme ambition - at the foot of Africa in Cape Town. A uniquely practical handson missionary course for all those who desire to be more innovative and effective in cross cultural evangelism and discipleship. The Great Commission Course involves daily outreaches and life changing presentations and practicals.

Is the Great Commission your supreme ambition?

"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’" Matthew 28:18-20

The last command of Jesus ought to be our first concern.

Frontline Fellowship offers this continuously revised and expanded leadership training course to dedicated Christians who are interested in becoming more effective in world evangelism. More than simply a conference, this comprehensive course includes day trips, excellent speakers, the Great Commission Manuals, hands-on practicals, workshops, group discussions, great films, hikes and mountain climbs, debates, numerous outreaches, good food, great fellowship with others who are committed to missions and more. Some of the subjects that are dealt with include:

Give up your small ambitions and follow Christ!

"Only one life, it will soon be past... Only what’s done for Christ will last"

GREAT COMMISSION Course REGISTRATION FORM

Please complete and return with deposit to secure your participation June / July 2006

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GREAT COMMISSION COURSE 2004

Summary and Analysis of Response Forms

The Great Commission Camp and Course (25 June - 12 July 2004) consisted of:
15 lecturers (of which 10 were guest lecturers), 56 lectures, 12 devotions, 7 church services, 16 outreaches, 9 films, 10 day visits to other missions, 5 workshops, 13 PT sessions and 5 hikes.

Participants came from as far afield as:
California, Arizona, Canada, Congo, Zambia, South Africa and New Zealand.

What have been your impressions of the GCC?
"A very well planned course. Excellent lectures. Very adventurous and exciting";
"I was surprised at how physical the camp was and how long the days were. I was very impressed at the quality and Biblical content of the lectures and I also enjoyed the realistic practicals";
"Well organised, focused and relevant, but also flexible and lecturers were approachable";
"Very well presented and organised, thorough lectures, hands-on practical outreaches, a good wide topical programme covering missions, historically to very current ongoing mission ministries today";
"I have enjoyed it very much, helpful and challenging";
"Well presented, thorough coverage and skilled, experienced presenters";
"What impressed me was the way Peter and his team lectured tons and also the way the members conducted themselves";
"Very informative and comprehensive. Well organised and illustrated. The lectures were well presented and real because the lecturers have been doing the work";
"The GCC is a great course";
"Well organised. Very good lectures";
"Frontline Fellowship is wholeheartedly dedicated to the Great Commission, old fashioned in worship, singing many hymns";
"Well organised, valid and interesting";
"So challenging to learn more about the challenges of the early missionaries and their determination";
"Outstanding!";
"It is good to see people giving up their lives to help those who are still walking the darkness"; "Killing yet refreshing!";
"Very tiring. I've been impressed the way we have been handled. The PT made a difference in my life"

What were the most useful or helpful lectures, videos, events or presentations to you and What were the highlights of the GCC for you?
14 said the outreaches; 12 the Luther film; 10 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness; 10 Fellowship, building relationships, and making friends at the GCC; 8 What Does It Take To Be A Missionary; 7 PT; 7 the Luther presentation on How The Reformation Changed the World; 7 Frontline Missions Throughout Africa slide presentation; 6 the hikes; 5 said "All!"; 5 Overcoming Culture Shock; 4 What Constitutes A Call; 4 Evangelising Hindus; 3 Communication Workshop; 3 Evangelising Muslims; 3 Cross Cultural Communication; 3 Making Disciples of All Nations; 3 The Challenge of Missions; 3 the practicals; 3 the food; 3 Hunger For Revival; 3 Idols For Destruction; 3 True Love Waits; 3 Coping With Crisis Situations; 3 PH Testimony; 2 Noise Masquerading As Music; 2 William Carey - The Father of Missions; 2 Prison Outreach; 2 Sudan Presentation; 2 The Ark; 2 Straatwerk; 2 discussion times and Q&A; 2 KSB Malmesbury; Others mentioned included: Restitution, The Family, Andrew Murray Centre, The Children's Commission, Media Village Tour, Waymakers, The Huguenot Museum, Missions In the Old Testament, Bible drill, Self-discipline, Your Devotional Life, Prayer and the Sovereignty of God, all the historical lectures, and night evangelism. 5 mentioned the Sunday morning worship service at the Huguenot Monument as their highlight and 2 mentioned the lecture on The 5 Points of Calvinism and the Teachings of Christ.

In what ways have you benefited from the GCC?
"I learned to trust more in God and less in myself. I learnt to persevere, not to be too sensitive and how to work in a group";
"It has certainly opened my eyes concerning God's will for my life to humble myself before Him and to serve others with a humble, gracious, Christ-like manner";
"Learnt to be humble before God and to build relationships with likeminded people";
"My romantic idea of missions has been replaced with the reality of missions";
"I've learnt more about the Word of God and the God of the Word";
"I learnt more of my responsibilities and what is of real importance";
"The GCC has completely transformed my attitudes and my view of the power of the Gospel and the desperate need for Christ in my world";
"Stiff, but fitter";
"I've learnt how best to do more things that matter with the limited time available";
"New found zeal to evangelise and disciple the nations!"

Would you recommend that others attend future GCC's?
"Definitely. The GCC is well organised, informative and practical, run by experts";
"The GCC is a must for all those who sincerely seek God's will for their lives";
"It is very helpful to learn new skills on how to fulfil the Great Commission";
"I would recommend the GCC to mature Christians";
"The Lord will use this course to grip your heart for the nations";
"The GCC is life transforming, attitude transforming";
"The GCC is life changing. I got more than I expected and God had an appointment with me".

Has this course led you to make any commitments or decisions?
To fully surrender to the Lordship of Christ: 13
To join and get involved in a local church: 14
To study the Word of God more regularly: 18
To spend more time in prayer for missions: 22
To read more good Christian books: 18
To disciple at least one person per year: 17
To support a mission financially: 13
Offer your time to a missionary movement: 18
To commit yourself to becoming a missionary: 16
Other decisions: "Purity, holiness at all costs, get rid of idols"; "To manage my time effectively"; "Encouraged to apply the Lordship of Christ to all areas of my life"; "Dedicate my time to win souls!"; "More physical exercise and discipline"; "I will fully dedicate my life to Him"; "I have to memorise more Scripture"; "I will not allow anyone to de-motivate me"; "I'm going to go to the shooting range more often!"; "I'm ready to offer my time to a missionary movement"; "Lord willing, I want to apply to become a fulltime missionary"

Frontline Fellowship
P O Box 74, Newlands, 7725, Cape Town, South Africa
Tel.: 021-689-4480 Fax: 021-685-5884
E-Mail: admin@frontline.org.za
Website: www.frontline.org.za

Participants of the previous Great Commission Courses conducted by Frontline Fellowship wrote the following responses:

"Extremely well organised, professional, excellent presentations."

"This course has been developed from first hand experience. This is reality."

"The scenery was great, the food also, but the content overshadowed it all."

"The best missions programme that I’ve ever seen."

"Very practical"

"I have benefited more than I ever thought possible!"

"This is a turning point for my life."

"I was amazed at the excellent selection of subjects. I reckon that it’s the best all round conference I have attended anywhere."

"I found the course extremely full without being burdensome, an outstanding example of variety on every relevant subject."

"The GCC is the best course in the country!"

Missionaries Mobilised through the Great Commission Course 2003
By God's grace, Frontline Fellowship has completed the Great Commission Course in Cape Town. Pastors, evangelists and missionaries came from Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Canada, South Africa and the USA to participate in this uniquely practical, hands-on missions training seminar.

At the end of the Great Commission Camp, 19 participants came forward to be prayed for in a Commissioning service. Each of these were going out on various short or long-term mission outreaches, including to Bangladesh, Nigeria, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Spain, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The Great Commission Course involved daily outreaches and practicals, starting with daily physical training every morning, intense lectures and multiple outreaches to railway stations, taxi ranks, bus stations, market places, door-to-door, prison ministry, film evangelism and visits to other missions. The programme often went on till after midnight with numerous night hikes.

The GCC participants distributed 40 000 Gospel booklets, primarily in Xhosa, English and Afrikaans and showed Christian films including the Jesus film in Xhosa, Afrikaans and English. In Khayelitsha, Guguletu, Dunoon, Msipumulele, Wellington, Velddrift, Villiersdorp and Philippi.

One Saturday aftenoon, GCC participants and Frontline missionaries engaged in soccer evangelism in Khayelitsha. There is a huge settlement of mostly Xhosa people. The missionaries beat the home team 5-0. That evening the church was packed out for the film evangelism and it was even more overflowing the next morning as I took a communion service and preached on Jesus – the lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29). The next week the missionaries beat the Khayelitsha home team at Volleyball: 3-1.

Many of our GCC outreaches were to assist church planting projects. One church planting project in Khayelitsha, which last year was meeting in a home, for which we had rented a tent to hold the special outreaches in, this year had moved into a fine new building, including their pre-school and a large church hall - which was full on Sunday mornings.

The GCC participants took part in night-time prayer vigils and street outreaches outside several night-clubs, brothels and pornography shops in the sleazy part of the city; and prayer vigils, protests and side-walk counseling on Saturday mornings outside a Marie Stopes Abortion Clinic. Some of the participants had the joy of leading people to Christ in prisons and outside brothels and night- clubs.

One of the 5 hikes included a 7-hour climb up and over the full length and breadth of Table Mountain. The descent was accomplished in the dark. As with the other hikes, participants carried back- packs, each laden with over a thousand Scripture booklets in Arabic. Some of the hikes ran up and down river- beds so we had the Scripture booklets securely water- proofed.

Aside from daily PT, outreaches, lectures and hikes, there were several exams written as well. At the end of the course, while vast quantities of Gospel Literature, Bibles, books and audio-visual evangelistic equipment were being prepared for mission outreaches and teams to go across the boarder, some of the written responses from GCC participants included: “Outstanding. Completely amazing. The content of the lectures was incredible and inspiring. Different from what I have previously known or expected” ; “I have been challenged to only accept God’s best for my life. Mediocrity and complacency will not be tolerated in any area of my life”; “I have attended many missions conferences, but I have never been so inspired or practically equipped before”; “Boldness has been built within me; fear removed”; “I want to be completely obedient to God in every are of my life – to be faithful in all circumstances despite the consequences.”

GCC Report 2002
Every July Frontline Fellowship runs a Great Commission Course (GCC) in Cape Town. This year participants came from Canada, USA, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

The GCC is an intense and practical mission training programme. It involved many outreaches, film evangelism, literature evangelism and personal evangelism in overcrowded informal settlements, prisons, hospitals, railway stations, shopping centres, mosques and on the streets. Blankets and Bibles were distributed in squatter camps; and film outreaches were held in civic centres and in a tent that we specially hired to assist a Church planting project in Khayelitsha.

Residents of Khayelitsha challenged the missionaries to a soccer match – which was held on rough terrain with livestock wandering on and off the field. The game was very intense and ended in a draw! In overtime the soccer match was won – by the missionaries! This was in spite of our people having been marched across the mountains the whole night before. There were some aching muscles afterwards.

Part of the practical training was placing participants under physical and emotional pressure and depriving them of sleep. Each morning began with PT and running at 6:30am. Most mornings were filled with intense lectures. Most afternoons and many evenings we were engaged in outreaches. And some nights there were "practicals" which on one rainy night involved hiking up and down a river in a dark forest. As this was to simulate a Bible smuggling operation in a restricted access area, strict silence was maintained and no flashlights could be used. Candidates were laden with hundreds of Arabic Gospel booklets each. These had to be carefully waterproofed as everyone got soaked slipping and sliding up and down the river. All this was during a freezing Cape winter.

The night before the soccer match, we completed an outreach in Khayelitsha, then we held a prayer vigil, placard protest and one-on-one evangelism outreach outside a pornography shop, then at 10:30 pm, we began an all-night hike across the magnificent mountain ranges that surround Cape Town. Of course the participants wore backpacks which were filled with hundreds of Arabic Gospel booklets. This time it wasn’t raining and we enjoyed a spectacular starlit view of God’s creation. By the time we all were able to stagger back to base, it was after 6:30am!

The parallel children’s programme Great Commission Kidz was also a tremendous success with the children mastering the Evangelism Explosion presentation, the Walk Thru’ The Bible (Old Testament), the Apostles Creed, the Ten Commandments and many Scriptures. Some of the children took part in outreaches in the townships as well.

The last command of our Lord Jesus ought to be our first concern.

FRONTLINE NEWS : Making Disciples of All Nations (2002/edition 3)