First Presbyterian Church (FPC) has people walking through its doors on a daily, weekly, monthly and occasional basis (the mission field) who are people that FPC does not see and does not try to build relationships with in the name of and after the manner of Jesus Christ. These people are strangers to FPC. The goal of this project is to facilitate learning so that FPC will be equipped to try to build relationships with these strangers through the practice of Christian hospitality, whereby FPC becomes more of an incamational church. The core of Christian faith is about the quality of relationships people have with God and with one another. Hospitality, which is mandated throughout the Bible, is the practice of the required loving quality to relationships with strangers as well as friends. FPC has a corporate or company mental model for ministry and limited team learning about the nature and practice of hospitality; these are impedi- ments which stand in the way of building loving relationships with the people in the mission field. Through a traffic study of the mission field, sermons, newsletter articles, and a hospitality training seminar, FPC will learn to recognize the mission field and to practice hospitality. Any team learning that takes place and any shift from a company or corporation church model to an incamational church model will be determined by the analysis of before and after question- naires, evaluation forms that are used by the participants in the trainings, personal observations recorded in a journal, and reports and feedback given by the participants.
