FROM TODAY TO TOMORROW Board Vision Process

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FROM TODAY TO TOMORROWBoard Vision Process

• Working Draft for broad Council distribution and
  comment
• Leroy McCreary, Council President
• Michael Livingston, Executive Director

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Visioning Process

• President McCreary proposed a Visioning Process
  to carry the Council into the future.
• Five years beyond the Vision 2005 work done
  during Grace ONeal presidency
• Without a vision, the people perish.
• Rev. Kevin Brown planned the process and led a
  planning team following the brainstorming work of
  the board at the winter meeting.

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Brainstorming

• Who do we want to be/become?
• Inclusive
• Truly accepting of differences
• Agents of the spirit
• Kind
• Christ centered
• Younger

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BRAINSTORMINGBe/become

• In unity
• Forgiving
• Beloved Community
• Closer to the edge
• Close knit
• Movement
• Growth in diversity (Asian, Hispanic)
• More of Christ/less of us

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Brainstorming Be/become

• Financially sound
• Motivational
• More like Jesus
• In mission/serving others
• Relevant
• Teachable
• Attractive to young people
• Engage young people

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BrainstormingBe/become

• Unsurpassed in fellowship
• Truly directed by word of God
• Open to deeper truths of scripture
• Filled with Holy Spirit
• Transformational
• Dedicated/committed

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Brainstorming

• Management tasks How to we get there?
• Learn mutually accountable discipline
• Intentional evangelicalreach out to others
• Financial stabilitystewardship
• Meet together more often
• Willing to make and do change
• Make room for new leaders
• Willing to follow new leaders

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Brainstorming(Management)

• Communication more, better, open, electronic
• If you love mefeed my sheep
• Motivate membership
• Increase membership
• Be the movementgive people a reason to follow
• Be mission focused

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Brainstorming(Management)

• Advertise
• Be accessible
• Lift him up
• Outreach
• Perceive accurately
• Be enthusiastic
• Find a place in the new religious landscape
• Claim our place in the new religious landscape

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Consensus Priorities
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Vision Markers Be/become
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Vision Markers Be/become
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Vision Markers Be/become
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Consensus Priorities
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Vision Markers Management Tasks
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Vision Markers
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Vision Markers Financial Stability