THE OUTDOORS NETWORK INTERNATIONAL
We are committed to creating a network for the outdoor enthusiast. This Network will equip individuals, groups and local ministries with resources to be used to share our faith with others. We believe we can be more effective when we work together in unity for the same cause. Through networking, we can collect resources that meet the common needs associated with outdoors ministry.
We believe that through working together, we can make a positive impact on our local communities. The Outdoors Network believes in building lasting relationships that actively find ways to enrich the lives of those we care about. Our desire is to encourage people to pass along our outdoor sporting heritage as well as the Godly faith that it was built upon. We believe that, through our Network, we will have a positive influence on our world and leave a lasting heritage for the generations to come.
Our life is one big adventure and working together is sharing the adventure. This was the inspiration of our motto..........Share the Adventure.
We believe that through working together, we can make a positive impact on our local communities. The Outdoors Network believes in building lasting relationships that actively find ways to enrich the lives of those we care about. Our desire is to encourage people to pass along our outdoor sporting heritage as well as the Godly faith that it was built upon. We believe that, through our Network, we will have a positive influence on our world and leave a lasting heritage for the generations to come.
Our life is one big adventure and working together is sharing the adventure. This was the inspiration of our motto..........Share the Adventure.
STATEMENT OF FAITH
We affirm the historic Christian faith and proclaim the life-transforming Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Gospel is good news, the very best news anyone can hear.
- The one living God, who eternally exists in three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, loves everyone.
- God uniquely revealed and inspired the Bible, so that it alone is God’s Word written, hence the Holy Scriptures are the only inerrant authority for what we believe about God’s moral law, salvation from sin and how we should live.
- Since the disbelief and disobedience of Adam and Eve, all humans have failed to obey God’s two major laws summed up by the Lord Jesus Christ. We have failed to love God with our whole being and we have failed to love our neighbors as ourselves. People have become slaves to selfishness and are alienated from God and one another.
- Jesus’ death in our place reconciles us to God. His atoning sacrifice provided redemption from the power of sin, forgiveness for our guilt, and reconciliation to Himself and others. We become acceptable to God, or justified, not by works, but by God’s grace alone, through faith in Christ alone. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, death on the cross to provide for our redemption, bodily resurrection and ascension into heaven, present ministry of intercession for us, and His return to earth in power and glory.
- The Holy Spirit draws sinners to repentance, belief in the Gospel and trust in the risen Christ of whom it speaks. The Holy Spirit then assures believers of salvation, gives them gifts for servant ministries, and empowers them to meet the needs of the lost, the poor, and the oppressed.
- All believers in the Lord Jesus Christ are members of His one international, multi-ethnic and transcultural body called the universal church. Its unity is displayed when we reach beyond racial and denominational lines to demonstrate the Gospel’s reconciling power.
- Our primary calling is to communicate the Gospel to everyone in our generation and nurture disciples. Nothing must divert us from carrying out our Lord’s great commission until His glorious return to reign in righteousness.
- This Statement of Faith was taken with permission from Promise Keepers.
WHO IS OUTDOORS NETWORK
The Vision of the Outdoors Network is based on a team approach to ministry that gives individuals, groups and organizations autonomy and at the same time enough structure and administration to allow them to be powerful and effective.
The objective is not to build a big organization but to be powerful and effective in advancing the Kingdom of God.
It is also about networking people together for a greater cause than their individual missions. It is based on the truth that we can accomplish more together than anyone of us can do on our own.
Its strategy will be to facilitate activities that cultivate the Holy Spirit’s ability to allow life changing impact.
It functions on the understanding that everything is done with excellence, integrity and honesty for the purpose of maximizing its impact.
The objective is not to build a big organization but to be powerful and effective in advancing the Kingdom of God.
It is also about networking people together for a greater cause than their individual missions. It is based on the truth that we can accomplish more together than anyone of us can do on our own.
Its strategy will be to facilitate activities that cultivate the Holy Spirit’s ability to allow life changing impact.
It functions on the understanding that everything is done with excellence, integrity and honesty for the purpose of maximizing its impact.
Some productive keys that will allow team members to be effective
- Train and equip participants
- Assess God given gifts, passions & talents
- Releasing people into their respective ministries and areas of service. Allowing their God given creativity to be exposed and developed.
- Encourage and build up
- Challenge them to bigger things
- Love God
- Love People
- Have a commitment to the vision
Core Values
Function as a facilitator of the following activities.
- Love God, not just in words but as proven by our actions.
- Love People, willing to do everything in our power to help them become productive members of the Body of Christ.
- Kingdom Mindset, we can do more together than anyone of us can do alone.
- Maximum Impact, mediocrity and Status-Quo are unacceptable.
- Is a 501C3 non profit designation and overseen by a Board of Directors that provide oversight, develop vision and have legal decision making power.
- Does not exist to micromanage, it’s purpose is to hold the organization on course.
- Provide accountability, it also has a Board of Advisers whose purpose is to provide credit-ability, support and give input and wisdom on issues.
Function as a facilitator of the following activities.
- National Conventions
- Fundraising
- Cast Vision
- Paint big picture
- Training
- Encouragement
- Challenge
- Mission Trips
- Youth Activities
- Hunts
- Summer Camps
- Fishing Trips
- National Prayer Breakfasts
- Evangelism
- Banquets
- Raise funding
- Renew vision, hope and purpose for burned out leaders and staff
- To bring all outdoor ministry players together with the idea of building unity through relationships.
- To create an awareness and understanding of each others ministry
- Create a platform for all participants to share the vision and goals of their respective ministries with the public.
- Facilitate hands on training with the purpose of teaching and encouraging participants through speakers, seminars and so on so that they can become more effective.
- Cast vision of what could happen if we all work together, not in competition with one another.
- Numerous ministries are in a place where they are trying to take their vision nationwide and beyond. (exposure)
- Leaders need to duplicate themselves in order to multiply their impact. (training)
- For too long ministries have been competing with each other for resources etc.
- Outdoors Network has the ability to function as a help organization to all ministries from a neutral position. Thereby helping to curb some of the competition. We are in a position to function as a conduit of unity by creating venues to facilitate these things.
- Ministries need resources of all kinds.
