Business Plan WSM Farm UD0909

8/14/2019 Business Plan WSM Farm UD0909

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WatersourceWatersource

Missionary FarmMissionary Farm

Missionary TrainingMissionary Training

and Support Centerand Support Center

By Watersource MinistriesBy Watersource Ministries


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Our PurposeOur Purpose

The establishment and management of amulti-production sustainable farm/ranch for thecomprehensive training of missionaries to:

Preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ To disciple indigenous people globally to then make

disciples themselves

To instruct and teach missionaries the most advanced,

ecological and sustainable agricultural techniques fordeveloping communities to utilize their countries soil forsuccessful food production.


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Community OutreachCommunity Outreach

Agriculture training to the community Food to the needy

Food storage program to be used during timesof disaster and family need

To reach out to the community with the Gospelthrough open air preaching, one to onewitnessing with an open door

Utilize various products and services of the farmto become a full or partially self-funding entity


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Market SummaryMarket Summary

Market: past, present, & future: Evangelistic The fulfilling of the

Great Commission is greatlyignored by most churches in theUS wide open market

Missionary There are several

mission training programs, but wehave not found any with thestrong emphasis on the Gospel wide open market

Agricultural CSA programsprovide local produce to localpeople and businesses. Still new

but rapidly growing industry.There are currently not enoughCSAs to meet the demands ofthe subscribers in northernColorado


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Community Sustained AgricultureCommunity Sustained Agriculture

(CSA)(CSA) The CSA is a program

where people in acommunity pay an annualsubscription (based on

number of persons perhousehold) for produceshares as they comeavailable on the farm. There are currently not

enough CSAs in NorthernColorado to meet thedemand of potentialsubscribers.


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Niche AgricultureNiche Agriculture

The Farm will alsoproduce specialtyproduce that will beavailable to natural food

stores, super markets,restaurants and the like.These things will include: Locally harvested honey

Heirloom and unique

tomatoes and peppers viagreenhouse

Small goat dairy (part ofCSA)


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Goals & Objectives (Agriculture)Goals & Objectives (Agriculture)

Five-year goals Establish CSA Establish niche produce and

livestock to NoCo restaurants andmarkets

Revenue from donors, CSA andmissions foundations establishedto be self sufficient trainingprogram

Revenue after cost of program tobe used to sponsor missionariesin the field

Establish a food bank to blesslocal families in need and

homeless programs Establish program to take inbumper crops from other farmsand use food in canning/storageprogram in food bank enterprise


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Church OutreachChurch Outreach

The Farm will be available to Biblebased churches for use in specialevents Baptisms

Using the Farms large wading poolor small lake for baptism services.

Missionary interns and ministry

staff will do all the behind thescenes work such as, preparingfood, playing music, decorating,etc.

Weddings Using the Farms many rustic views

as the back drop for weddingservices.

Missionary interns and ministrystaff will do all the behind thescenes work such as, preparingfood, playing music, decorating,etc.


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Goals & Objectives (Evangelistic)Goals & Objectives (Evangelistic)

Five-year goals Continue putting on

Spiritual Fire Academiesfor local churches andgroups

Provide Gospel tractsupport for Colorado streetoutreaches

Produce Bible based andevangelism mindedmissionaries for themission fields that canwitness to an indigenousperson, train them towitness to their ownpeople and teach theBible.


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Goals & Objectives (Missionary Re-Entry)Goals & Objectives (Missionary Re-Entry)

Host missionaries that are onfurlough Have furlough missionaries live

on the farm and teach internsfrom their experiences

Help create media for use in

church presentations andworking up donor support Help create prayer networks for

missionaries while in field

Help missionaries reintegratewhen they come out of the

mission field for good. Be a transitional place whilefamily adjusts to way of lifehere in States


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Who We AreWho We Are

Experiencedevangelists,apologists,missionaries, street

preachers, teachers,and counter-cultspecialists

Experiencedgardeners, livestock,pasture and farm andbusiness managers


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Board of Directors - AccountabilityBoard of Directors - Accountability

Steve Bauer Founder WSM, Evangelist andstreet preacher

Rick Busch Founder WSM, street preacher

Paul LaFleur Founder WSM, street preacher

Kevin Blankenship Pastor, Calvary ChapelLoveland

Mark Schotten Evangelist, co-founderMetanoia Outreach (Denver, 16th Street open air ministry)


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The Farm TeamThe Farm Team

Steve Bauer (Ministry Director,Evangelism Training, BibleInstruction) Founder - Watersource Ministries Associate Pastor Calvary Chapel

Loveland, CO. Experienced paramedic (20 years

field experience) Police Chaplain (Loveland PD) Evangelist, Bible teacher and street

preacher. Instrumental in planting witnessing

teams across Colorado Also trained in Critical Incident

Stress Management and Biblicalcounseling


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Christine Bauer(Communications Director,Evangelism Training) Grew up in Niger, West

Africa. Spent 20 years inmissions family

Editor of WatersourceNewsletter

Founder of the TalmudinOutreach

Graduate of The School ofBiblical Evangelism LivingWaters

Graduate Bethel College,Indiana BATranslation/American SignLanguage


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Lynn Philpott (Farm/ProduceManager) Crop management, CSA

program oversight andplanning, missionary training

Experience

Missionary in West Africa for 20years, raised a family in Nigeriaand Niger, specialized in waterfiltration, conservation anddirection, farming, and generalconstruction.

BA Foreign Missions, MoodyBible Institute

Certificate Le TourneauUniversity Aircraft and powerplant maintenance

Trained in agriculture from CSUand horticulture from FrontRange Community College


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Sandi Philpott (MissionTraining Director) Intern relations and

admission, missionarytraining, healthcaretraining

Experience Missionary in West Africa

for 20 years, raised afamily in Nigeria andNiger, specialized ineducation and healthcare.

BA Christian Education,Moody Bible Institute

Bachelor of Nursing,North Park College,Chicago, Ill.


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Jocelyne Philpott (ManagerLivestock) Livestock and dairy

planning/breeding and care,pasture and soil management

Experience

Born in Niger, West Africa.Grew up in missions family for20 years.

BS in Environmental Biology. Trained on World Hunger Relief

farm in Texas, learning smallanimal and livestock care as

well as management of a smallRaw Goat Milk Dairy Trained on an organic cow

dairy in pasture rotation anddairy management


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Jonathan Jolly (Counter Cultand street Evangelism Training) Trained under Bill Honsberger

with Haven Ministries incounter-cult outreach

Founder of Reaching Boulder

Outreach and EuroKarmaGospel tract program Developer of Evangepedia

and Ask J evangelistdatabase

Expert in counter cult outreach Evangelist, teacher, Bible

teacher Member of Metanoia Outreach

in Denver, CO


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Steward ResponsibilitiesSteward Responsibilities

Missions Farm will be established by: Prayer

Individual blessings to ministry

Partnerships with ministries and churches Earnings from CSA

As a non-profit ministry, post-operational funds

are utilized for the continued mission of the farmAND replication of additional farms nationallyand abroad


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Resource RequirementsResource Requirements

Technology requirements Ultimately want to be low-tech to reflect the agri-reality in developing countries

Personnel requirements Farm Manager Ranch Hands Mission Education Manager

Livestock Manager Director of Ministry Instructors Interns

Resource requirements $4,000,000 start up capital

$1.5-2.0 Million for property $2 Million for implementation expenses

External requirements Equipment rental Heirloom seeds/Non-GMO seeds Livestock purchases


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Risks & RewardsRisks & Rewards

Risks Believe that there is no risk

when doing somethingaccording to Gods will andto glorify Him

It will fail otherwise Rewards

A self-sufficient farm thatwill prepare missionariesfor the mission field and tobe Biblical preachers, as

well as a refuge forreturning missionaries tointegrate back into USsociety


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Missionary Support UnfulfilledMissionary Support Unfulfilled

The lack of comprehensive missionary training andsupport within the Church Body today is extremelyprofound.

Too often believers, usually quite young in age as well asin their faith, experience and Biblical knowledge arethrown into the mission field and are met with extremedifficulties they were not effectively prepared or trained tohandle.

An effective preparation of Christian missionaries intodays world both in spiritual and practical aspects is

vital to the call of the great commission as well as fortheir own effectiveness, safety and spiritual well-being.

Finding such a resource to fulfill this demanding needthroughout the Church body is lacking at best


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Scriptural SignificanceScriptural Significance Romans 10:14-17 How then shall they call on Him in

whom they have not believed? And how shall theybelieve in Him of whom they have not heard? And howshall they hear without a preacher? And how shall theypreach unless they are sent? As it is written:

How beautiful are the feet of those whopreach the gospel ofpeace, who bring glad tidings of good things!But they have notall obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, LORD, who hasbelieved our report? So then faith comes by hearing, andhearing by the word of God.

Matthew 28:19 Jesus Said, go therefore and makedisciples of all the peoples, baptizing them in the nameof the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.


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ObjectivesObjectives

Our mission is summed up with the 3 word statement on the front ofour website. Preach. Teach. Connect. To fulfill that mission, wehave broken it into 3 phases.

Phase 1 Establish locally, within Colorado as an evangelical outreachthat spreads the Gospel message through street evangelism.

This also serves the purpose of collecting data (video, audio andexperience) to use in teaching others the Biblical method of sharing theGood News. This has taken the form of the Spiritual Fire Academy aclass that teaches Biblical evangelism (based on the research of RayComfort (author Hell's Best Kept Secret) and Mark Cahill (author OneThing You Can't Do in Heaven)).

Our website (www.watersourceministries.org) is an integral part of ouroutreach to Colorado churches and supporting ministries. We have givenaccess to our teachings and presentations, as well as Gospel tracts(printable and video) and sermons given by the preachers of Watersource invarious churches.
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Phase 2 - Help organize, teach and support streetevangelism teams and persons throughout Colorado. We have been blessed to help in connecting and even

establishing teams in Colorado Springs, Denver, Boulder and Ft.Collins/Loveland. The team leaders can be contacted via ourwebsite under the Witnessing in Colorado link.

We have also been fortunate to have members of those teamsthat also teach Biblical evangelism. This has been great infacilitating availability of instructors throughout the state. Ifsomeone calls Watersource for a class and they are in an area

that our ministry is not close to, we can refer them to aninstructor in their area.
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Phase 3 involves training a potential missionary for the work of fulfilling theGreat Commission. The missionary training center will be operating on a large, working farm. During

the day, the interns will work the farm, learning sustainable agriculturaltechniques (seed harvesting, soil mediation, natural farming, animal tractionplowing, etc.) that will equip them to be a part of a third-world community in theU.S. (ex: Indian Reservations), and/or internationally. They will also sell the

produce grown at the training center to the community through a CommunitySustained Agriculture (CSA) program. In the evenings and on weekends, the interns will be given Biblical teaching and

mission-related training. This training will cover aspects of missionary work like:

raising a family in the mission environment, going into a new culture for the first time, and first aid.

They will also be thoroughly trained in methods of Biblical evangelism and outreach.This will help the missionary to be able to teach an indigenous person to share theGospel with the members of the community they are on mission to, as well as teachingthe community members to share the Gospel, Biblically, with their own people.

This will involve training and practice/application in street witnessing, open air preaching,counter-cult training, as well as verse by verse/in depth study of the Word.


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Phase 3 cont: Support missionaries and various ministries in themission field and on furlough. The first part of this phase will take a select few interns who complete

the missionary training program and support them financially while theyare in the field.

The second portion of this phase involves bringing the missionaries

back from the mission field on furlough and allowing them to bring theirexperiences back for the purpose of training new interns. Thesemissionaries would live on the training center grounds during theirfurlough.

The third portion of this phase involves taking missionaries from the fieldand helping them reintegrate into American society.

This seems to be an area neglected by the Body in the US and one which

we intend to address The missionary training and support center will be located in Colorado at

a place that would incorporate all portions of the above describedtraining. We will call this place "The Farm."

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