Andrew Murray Ministry

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Andrew Murray Ministry
Service, Celebration, Care

• Leap of Faith

2009 to 2013
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Roadmap

• Background
• Purpose of presentation
• Context setting
• Process followed
• Content of strategy
• Our dreams
• Key strategic goals
• Ministries and portfolios
• Next steps with timelines
• Timelines
• Your input and involvement
• Questions

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BACKGROUND

• Purpose
• Share strategy for Andrew Murray
• Solicit input
• Mobilize commitment
• Dream together
• Context setting
• Dialogue within Andrew Murray Church Council
• Season of reflection
• Review of Andrew Murray / Lynnwood relationship
• Andrew Murray strategy planning process
• Current state

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BACKGROUND

• Process followed
• Appreciative inquiry
• Appreciate (recognize, value)
• Inquire (explore and discover)
• Positive outlook of the future (faith and hope)

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BACKGROUND
Discovery What gives life? (The best of what
is) Appreciating
Destiny How to empower,learn and
improvise? Sustaining
Design What should be the ideal? Co-constru
cting
Affirmative Topic Choice
Dream What might be? (What is the world
calling for?) Envisioning Results
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CONTENT OF STRATEGY

• Our dreams
• Membership growth to 500
• Financial stability
• Budget R 650,000 (2009) R 700,000
  (2010) R1,000,000 (2013)
• Spiritual growth (John 155)
• Comfortable spiritual home
• Responsive congregation

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CONTENT OF STRATEGY

• Key Strategic Goals
• To facilitate Ministry development and growth
• To act as a catalyst for spiritual change and
  transformation
• To become a spiritual home for the many

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CONTENT OF STRATEGY

• Ministries and Portfolios
• Structures / organs to facilitate strategy
  implementation
• Spiritual growth
• Spiritual focus groups
• Financial management
• Church growth
• Community and outreach
• Facilities and property
• Marketing and communication
• Church liturgy
• Networking and relationship building
• Strategy and church planning

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CONTENT OF STRATEGY

• Spiritual growth
• Sponsor
• Anton du Plooy
• Key focus areas / activities
• Focus on John 155
• Spiritual growth (Bible focus)
• Power of prayer
• Fellowship of believers
• Goal for 2009
• Implement walk across the room programme

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CONTENT OF STRATEGY

• Spiritual focus groups
• Sponsor
• Erica Loubser
• Key focus areas / activities
• Attend to the needs of
• Senior citizens
• Youth
• Families
• Differently abled persons
• Other
• Expansion of ministries to the above group
• Goal for 2009
• Implement at least one activity programme for
  each ministry

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CONTENT OF STRATEGY

• Financial Management
• Sponsor
• Jooste Steynberg
• Key focus areas / activities
• Growth in church income
• Financing of key church growth activities,
  programmes and projects
• Ensure financial sustainability
• Facilitate a culture of financial giving
• Goal for 2009
• Andrew Murray income target of R650,000

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CONTENT OF STRATEGY

• Church growth
• Sponsor
• Michael Loubser / Jeongku Woo
• Key focus areas / activities
• Membership growth
• Increase visiting points
• Member information management
• Tracking visitors
• Care and contact for previous members
• Goal for 2009
• Membership growth target of approximately150 to
  200 people in church every Sunday

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CONTENT OF STRATEGY

• Community and outreach programmes
• Sponsor
• Cornelius Smit
• Key focus areas / activities
• Outreach programmes
• Community involvement
• Gospel outreach
• Target ministries (outside Andrew Murray)
• Goal for 2009
• One Andrew Murray initiated community event each
  quarter

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CONTENT OF STRATEGY

• Facilities and properties
• Sponsor
• Zenta Gazendam
• Key focus areas / activities
• Property maintenance
• Equipment care
• Furniture care
• Key asset management
• New property developments / expansion
• Goal for 2009
• Improvements on youth venues and accommodation

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CONTENT OF STRATEGY

• Marketing and communication
• Sponsor
• Gerhard Ferreira
• Key focus areas / activities
• Internal communication
• External communication
• Marketing the ministry
• Electronic media use
• Special marketing events
• Goal for 2009
• Marketing Andrew Murray within Pretoria
• Church newsletter and improvements

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CONTENT OF STRATEGY

• Networking / Relationship building
• Sponsor
• Vacant
• Key focus areas / activities
• Networking with relevant spiritual organizations
  / bodies
• Expansion of Andrew Murray relations without
  denominations
• Specific target institutions
• Embassies
• Universities
• Specific NGOs
• Lynnwood congregants,etc
• Goal for 2009
• Focus on Embassies in Pretoria

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CONTENT OF STRATEGY

• Church liturgy
• Sponsor
• Local Minister / Pastor
• Key focus areas / activities
• Improvement on tradition (liturgy)
• Church services
• Pastoral care services
• Congregation involvement / participation
• Goal for 2009
• Explore broader congregational participation in
  church services

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CONTENT OF STRATEGY

• Strategy and church planning
• Sponsor
• Obadiah Khwinana
• Key focus areas / activities
• Church planning
• Church administration
• Strategy implementation
• Goal for 2009
• Church member participation in planning process
  and setting of specific goals and targets

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NEXT STEPS

• Timelines
• Innovation / project teams (31 August 2008)
• Ministry plans (30 September 2008)
• Integration of ministry plans (13 October 2008)
• Communication
• Andrew Murray congregation (19 October 2008)
• Andrew Murray Lynnwood CCC (27 October 2008)
• Refinement (30 November 2008)
• Implementation (01 January 2009)

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NEXT STEPS

• God needs you!!!
• Andrew Murray needs you!!!
• We need you!!!