Welcome to the Ready Christian Learning Track. In the following sessions you will learn how to become a Ready Christian and join with your church in preparing to respond to crisis and disaster. The Ready Christian Track works together with the Ready Church Campaign to get Christians ready to respond to emergencies, big and small.

All the materials for learning about how to be a Ready Christian are available in this track. Each track is made up of the same components.

• A video tutorial (like this one)
• Activities
• Resources to read, downloadable tools, and reference materials (you’ll also find all Ready Church resources in the Resource Library)
• A quiz (once you get all five answers right, you can proceed to the next section)

Before you start this journey, let's find out to what extent you are ready to respond by taking the Readiness Profile. The Readiness Profile assesses your spiritual, emotional, mental and physical readiness and ranks your results with seven possible outcomes:

• Detached – haven’t thought much about readiness, not on the radar
• Reluctant – you do what you have to, not a priority
• Challenged – looking to do more, but what?
• Responsive – you are learning how to endure and meet physical needs
• Engaged –responding to crisis but lacking structure and skills
• Resilient – aware, ready and there to give a biblical response to crisis and disaster
• Replicating – reproducing results with other Christians and building capacity in the community

Maybe you have given some thought to emergencies, planning evacuation routes from the church, screening volunteers, participating in blood drives or even responding to disasters. But are you ready to respond biblically?

Biblical readiness means being spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically ready to respond to emergencies as faithful Christ-followers by praying, caring for survivors and sharing the hope we have in Jesus Christ.

The first step to becoming biblically ready to respond is to select Readiness Profile in the resources section below and discover how to become a Ready Christian - ready to respond.

Activities

• Take Readiness Profile

Written by :

Mary Marr