Every CFL-born Life Team, regardless of their specific plans, is trained to exhibit these general characteristics: gospel-driven, unified, consistent and multi-faceted initiatives, trusted within the church, resourced, interfacing with agencies, and influencing the church as a whole.  Beyond these universal Team traits, the question inevitabily comes, "What will our specific Life Team actually do?"  

CFL equips Life Teams with the biblical skills to ask God the question, "What are Your specific plans for us, Lord?"  We equip them to sit at God's feet and discern His specific plans as the foundation of their specific plans.  This biblical paradigm ensures that a particular Life Team follows God (not CFL) according to His plans for their particular Team in their particular church in their particular community. 

Take heart that Life Teams don't have to be experts in all the things the do to equip the congregation.  What a Life Team does will reflect not only their own giftedness, but the gifts of those in the congregation and the resources of partner agencies (like a local crisis pregnancy center).  Here is a list of the kinds of things that a Life Team might do:

• Help congregants connect the gospel to the life arena - that is, help them enjoy being rescued by Christ in the gospel and gratefully live that out as rescuers
• Train congregants with a biblical worldview of the sanctity of human life
  • What does it mean to be human?
  • What does biotechnology have to do with human dignity?
  • What does the Bible say about embryonic technology?
  • And more...
• Help moms and dads in crisis pregnancies
  • Help female congregants get trained to counsel women facing a crisis pregnancy
  • Collect baby items (e.g. diapers) in the church to help women with newborns
  • Mentor men who are part of a crisis pregnancy
  • Connect pregnant couples to resources that enable them to choose life
  • Provide safe homes for women in crisis pregnancies and dangerous circumstances
  • Raise funds to support local Christian crisis pregnancy centers
  • Invite speakers to give testimony to choosing life in the midst of a crisis pregnancy
  • And more...
• Rescue unwanted children by adoption
  • Inform congregation about the need for adoptive families
  • Connect the biblical doctrine of our adoption in Christ with the physical practice of adopting children
  • Inform congregants about the adoption process and encourage them to explore the idea
  • Support adoptive families in the church
  • And more...
• Expose those cast down by a past abortion both inside and outside the church to the gospel for healing 
• Equip congregants in gracious cultural engagement and apologetics regarding life issues
• Equip congretants with gracious biblical guidance regarding life-related legislative issues
• Defend human embryos from destruction
• Dignify the infirm and elderly in danger of euthanasia
• Dignify and serve those with special needs in the congregation and community
• Help congregants make biblical, careful end-of-life decisions
• Challenge congregants regarding care for orphans via foster care, etc.
• Strengthen and build up their own Life Team - tend to internal Team health
• Mentor young people into lives of sexual integrity
• Mentor parents and youth workers to equip young people for lives of sexual integrity
• Support single-parent families
• And much, much more!

 How does CFL equip a Life Team do the sorts of things, above? 

1. In and through an ongoing trust relationship with the Living God through Jesus Christ in the gospel
2. In and through a healhty, ongoing trust relationship with pastoral oversight and other groups in their church
3. In partnership with Churches for Life
4. Calling on the expertise within the church and Life Team
5. Partnering with Christian life-affirming agencies that have expertise and resources congruent with the Team's goals

To get started building a Life Team at your church, contact us at info@getintolife.org