Even though Ministry Area 1, Evangelism, is a subset of this ministry area, achieving its objective requires different tasks to be implemented. When a man has accepted Christ, it is extremely important for that man to be immersed in good biblical teaching about Christian life basics, such as spiritual disciplines which are needed in spiritual warfare. Once again, the purpose of this ministry area is to support the church in its mission to accomplish this objective. As in Evangelism, the overall method to be followed is to engage individual churches to determine if there are any ways in which the United Methodist Men of the North Georgia Conference could assist the local church in this area of ministry. Some examples might be: 1) teaching specialized courses on spiritual gifts, spiritual warfare, fruit of the spirit, G. Ross Freeman’s A Spiritual Journey for Men or A Transforming Journey for Men; 2) offering Certified Lay Speakers to speak when the pastor will be absent (or not) specifically on the topic of spiritual growth; or 3) offer the church a spiritual retreat focused on spiritual growth. Measurement of success in this ministry area does not come easily. One approach is to ask the pastor of each church engaged to rate on some scale (say 1 to 100) the spiritual maturity of his/her men on average, based on their intentional engagement in the church’s ministry. Get that rating before the church is engaged by us and some time (say 6 months) after our engagement. Our measure would then be the shift in the average of the ratings obtained within a given FY. Using some type of shift measurement like this one, our goals could be as follows. (Note that on this scale the goal would be to get to a point where most men in the congregation exhibited a significant spiritual growth in their lives, so a steady state goal would be a shift only due to new Christian men added to the congregation in the last year or so. For the purpose of the chart, that number is assumed to be 10%.)