4th Era: Disciple Making Board Game

The 4th Era board game project is one meant to help people understand what being a disciple who makes mulltiplying disciples looks like (i.e. movement mentality and intentionality) and how it is needed in order to have disciples in every people group to fulfill the Great Commission. This game has familiar mechanics that you might recognize from Settlers of Catan or Pandemic, but with rules that make you think about your own missiology and what the Lord is calling each of us to do, and all of us to do together. As a cooperative game, each character has unique gifts they bring to meet the challenges of the game just like in real-life disciple making. This game is meant to spark Kingdom conversations and yet, it is a game. It's fun and constantly changing based on the lay out of the board.

We will eventually launch the game on Kickstarter to expose the broader board gaming community, but this fundraiser is to fund the play testing of the game. Play testing is a critical aspect to make sure that the rules are slick and understandable by all, to make sure there aren't any gaps in play or confusing or unnecessarily complicated aspects. In order to do this well, we need hundreds of people to play the game. Roughly one third of the budget of this fundraiser is to print up a dozen draft sets of the game and for travel funds to visit key strategic groups that represent future player audiences. We plan to head to Texas to play with many groups at a large church and also with the whole staff of an organization that trains churches how to do missions well. Then to Florida to test among mission students and a large mission agency with pre-field missionaries. California has multiple Christian campuses in proximity to test among college groups, and we'll explore our networks in Colorado to test among a large group of pastors and gaming groups. The other 60% of this fundraiser is to print up and distribute 500 sets of the game to bless the groups that helped play test along with sending them out to mission agencies, college ministries, and key church leaders. Providing promotional sets to key influencers should help the game proliferate among churches, mission students, college students, mission agencies, mission training organizations, and the everyday believer.

4th Era Play Testing Budget
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Play Test Kit Printing & Shipping: $1,000
Play Test traveling to 4 locations: $5,095
Design & Editing: $2,200
Printing 500 Promotional Game Sets and shipping: $15,000
(The promotional sets will be sent free to mission agencies, college ministries, and church partners to bless play testers and launch awareness of the game as a tool to use for the Kingdom.)
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TOTAL $23,295

If you are interested in hearing about the specific premise and rules, please reach out to Denise through this site.

Chasm Solutions uses digital marketing to accelerate disciple multiplication movements among both unreached people groups and secular societies.

This Chasm Solutions Launch project is specifically for the costs associated with launching this ministry over 2017. Funds raised here go to getting the first elements of an organization in place like communication materials, communication technology, and partner development meetings.

All of these costs are essential to the launching of the vision of accelerating movements of multiplying disciples using digital marketing.