BONUS POINTS - WORKED EXAMPLE

The Bonus Points table represents the bonus factors which, upon fulfilment of certain desired criteria, are multiplied by the number of new converts achieved. The whole purpose of this system is to encourage teams to supply the maximum effort and go the extra distance to provide the best possible beginning to a new convert's Christian experience.

Worked example: a Global Challenge team from Australia wins 5 new converts in a town (population 150,000) in Eastern Europe, who speak different languages to their own native language, and refers them on to a local church for further discipleship.  The new converts supply the team with their full names and contact details, as verification of the conversion success.  4 of the 5 converts are also subsequently baptised by the team.  2 of them are also given non-English bibles by the team, which they had acquired from a local supporter.  This country was not included in the team's original Divisional list of countries (i.e. it was an extra country visited on their travels).

Question: How many points in total did the Australian team just earn from this successful witnessing encounter?

Answer:

(a)  new converts                                                 5 x 1.00                  =             5.00
(b)  city size bonus                                              5 x (1.25 – 1)         =             1.25 {see * below}
(c)  country grade bonus                                    5 x (1.50 – 1)         =             2.50
(d)  language bonus                                           5 x (1.50 – 1)         =             2.50
(e)  discipleship bonus                                      5 x (3.50 – 1)         =           12.50
(f)   contact details bonus                                   5 x (1.10 – 1)          =            0.50
(g)  baptism bonus                                             4 x (2.00 – 1)           =            4.00
(h)  bible bonus                                                   2 x (2.00 - 1)            =            2.00
(i)   extra country bonus                                                                       =           10.00 {see * below} 

TOTAL CHALLENGE POINTS EARNED = 40.25

It is clear from the above calculation how, depending on different situations and degrees of difficulty, teams may earn differing points - even with the same total number of new converts each.

For Awards purposes, teams will actively aim to earn as many bonus points as possible to supplement their conversion numbers, as in the example above.  Language barriers, the extra effort required to refer new converts to local churches for further follow-up, and the time and energy invested in baptising converts, finding bibles to distribute, etc, are all  encouraged and therefore appropriately rewarded under this bonus point scenario.

This does NOT mean the Challenge stresses "numerical" goals above everything else.  On the contrary, enhancing "quality" of relationships started as new followers of Christ, with local prospects of follow-up and discipleship, is what we are aiming to leave behind from every witnessing team's efforts.

Note: {* above} - according to the Challenge's policy, had the city size been greater than 500,000 no "city size" bonus points would have been earned here.  The flavour and aim in 2010 is to deliberately encourage teams to actively witness outside the larger metropolitan populations; and the smaller the population base, the bigger the "city size" bonus point reward.

Note: {* above} - the “+ bonus” column of the Bonus Points table are added to a team’s total tally of points; no multiplication of points occur as per the rows above in this example.

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