Strategic Planning for a Churchs Future

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Strategic Planning for a Churchs Future

• A presentation based on George Hunters book, To
  Spread the Power
• by
• Jeremy Page
• Chad Penner
• Justin Waldron

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Proven Planners

• Jonathan Edwards
• Pope Gregory sends Augustine and monks
• Southern Baptist Convention

• Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism
• Roman Catholic mission orders

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Planning in Scripture

• Proverbs declares
• The wise man looks ahead. The fool attempts to
  fool himself and wont face facts and , a wise
  man thinks ahead a fool doesnt, and even brags
  about it.

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Why rethink planning?

• Hemingway Never mistake motion for action.
• Four fifths of todays churches are beehives of
  random motion, but not of action that will
  achieve something.

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Four Levels of Liberation

• 1. Objectives and Priorities
• 2. Roles and Responsibilities

• 3. Procedures and Processes
• 4. Interpersonal Relationships and Behaviors

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Wise questions

• Where are you going?
• If your church gets where its going, where will
  it be?
• Are you thinking about the future?
• If you do not think about the future you can not
  have one. (Galsworthy)
• Are you planning?
• If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
  (Schuller)

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Planning defined by Hunter

• Planning is the mental creation of the future we
  intend.
• 4 kinds of planning
• Reactive
• Inactive
• Preactive
• Interactive
• Strategic and Operational

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Eight Steps to Strategic Planning

• Step One
• Church and Community Identification

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Church and Community Identification

• Downtown Old First Church
• Neighborhood Church
• Metropolitan Regional Church

• Special Purpose Church
• Town Church
• Open Country Church

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Situation Analysis Part 1

• What in the church attracts people?
• Needs they come with
• What ministries engaged them?
• What experiences do they find significant?
• Their ideas about how other people like them
  could be reached

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Situation Analysis Part 2

• Active resident membership at years end
• Worship attendance for the year
• Average church school attendance for the year
• Number of persons regularly involved in average
  laity ministry
• Number received as new Christians for the year

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WOTS UP

• Point in Question?
• Weaknesses
• Opportunities
• Threats

• Strengths
• Underly your
• Planning

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Strategic Framework

• 1. Identify areas in which the local church is
  not experiencing the key outcomes it desires, but
  could achieve.
• 2. Identify the churchs stakeholders.

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Mission Statement

• A strong mission statement becomes the driving
  force of the organization, shaping decisions and
  holding the church on course.

• Good statements are
• Brief
• Simple
• General
• Energizing

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Objectives and Goals

• Specific
• Attainable
• Measurable

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Strategies Review

• Identifying and reaching receptive people
• Reaching out across the social networks of
  believers
• Multiplying units as recruiting groups and ports
  of entry
• Ministering to the felt needs of people
• Building culturally indigenous forms of ministry

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Operational Plans

• What now do we do?
• ICU or Therapeutical