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Getting Started: Building Your Chapter

This manual seeks to help individuals with a calling to victim ministry to collaborate with a variety of churches and organizations in their community in creating a victim assistance ministry. It contains information on structuring a NWC chapter, recruiting participating churches, working with law enforcement, creating a budget, and fundraising.

Table of Contents


  1. The Blueprint
  2. Laying Foundations: The Development Team
  3. Prayer: Cementing the Mortar
  4. Surveying the Neighborhood: Community Assemssment
  5. Getting a “Building Permit:” Working with Local Law Enforcement
  6. Finding Laborers: Church Recruitment
  7. Finalizing Floor Plans: Planning the Chapter
  8. Calculating the Cost: Financial/Budget
  9. Fund Development
  10. Selecting Your Building Supervisors: Developing the Advisory Council 
  11. Establishing the Framework: Chapter Agreement & Certification
     


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