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Title: Ministry Mapping Training


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Ministry Mapping Training
  • CBAmerica
  • July 2009
  • Dr. William Hoyt

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What is Ministry Mapping?
  • Also called Envisioning
  • Strategic Ministry Planning Process
  • Brief History of Strategic Planning
  • A company needs to know what business its in
  • Mission or Purpose Statement
  • Majority of people are visuals
  • Vision Statement

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What is Ministry Mapping?
  • Brief History of Strategic Planning
  • Great Mission and Vision Statements
  • No impact
  • Mission and Vision Statements dont motivate
  • Values motivate
  • Clarify and articulate their values

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Two Problems
  • Typically Strategic Planning
  • Does not start far enough back
  • The Christian addition
  • We are people of the Book
  • Must start with the Bible
  • We must start with Core Beliefs
  • Does not go far enough forward
  • Stops short of goals and action steps
  • Annual Plan

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Why Create A Ministry Map?
  • To achieve greater ministry effectiveness by
    taking aim and focusing on the target

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Why Create A Ministry Map?
  • To create unity around a commonly understood,
    widely supported mission and vision
  • The problem with most churches is not a lack of
    vision, but too many visions (Leith Anderson)

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Why Create A Ministry Map?
  • To achieve greater effectiveness and satisfaction
    by establishing specific ministry plans and clear
    ministry outcomes

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Why Create A Ministry Map?
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Why Create A Ministry Map?
  • The Mapping Process results in
  • Core Beliefs briefly stated and effective for
    teaching your people the basic truths upon which
    your church stands and ministers
  • Core Values based on your Core Beliefs insuring
    that your church keeps the main things the main
    things
  • A sound Biblical understanding of your churchs
    Mission

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Why Create A Ministry Map?
  • The Mapping Process results in
  • A clear, concise and compelling Vision of what it
    will look like as your church fulfills its
    God-given Mission
  • A focus that leads to ministry effectiveness by
    enabling you to evaluate everything you do by its
    contribution to your accomplishing your Mission
    and Vision

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When Is A Good Time?
  • At Middle Age
  • At the first hint of a plateau
  • At the first hint of business as usual
  • Before calling a new Senior Pastor
  • After achieving a specific ministry goal or
    vision
  • At the completion of building, remodeling, or
    expansion project

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Fundamentally Spiritual Process
  • We build upon their Biblical beliefs
  • We are guided by their core values
  • We agree on their Biblical mission
  • We bathe the process in prayer
  • We seek the Spirits wisdom

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Listening Process
  • Listen to God through Scripture
  • Listen to God through His Spirit (Prayer)
  • Listen to each other
  • Listen to knowledgeable and experienced people as
    they lead the process

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The Process
  • Takes 6-8 full days
  • All day Friday (900 AM 530 PM)
  • All day Saturday (830 AM 500 PM)
  • Schedule the dates
  • Coach them on the Team make-up
  • Obtain contact information for Team members

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The Process
  • Distribute Primary Teaching Passages and
    Instructions
  • Collect their initial attempts at writing Core
    Beliefs
  • Create the Ministry Map

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The Process
  • Teach the planning process
  • SMART Goals
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The Process
  • Teach the planning process
  • SMART Goals
  • Specific
  • Measureable
  • Aligned
  • Results-oriented
  • Time-constrained

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The Process
  • Create the Annual Plan
  • One or two primary SMART Goals
  • From Key Measurement Areas
  • Conversions
  • Attendance
  • Assimilation
  • Lay Involvement
  • Small Group Involvement
  • Leader Development
  • Tithers

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The Process
  • Teach the planning process
  • SMART Goals
  • Action Steps
  • Things you have to do to achieve the goal
  • Often expressed in SMART Goal form

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What Are Core Beliefs?
  • Clarity begins by understanding what they are
    NOT.
  • Core beliefs are not a comprehensive recitation
    of fundamental theological beliefs.
  • Core beliefs are not a doctrinal statement
    rehearsing your entire belief system.
  • Core beliefs are not your statement of faith.
  • Core beliefs are not values. Values flow from
    your core beliefs.

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What Are Core Beliefs?
  • Core beliefs are those beliefs that significantly
    impact who you are
  • Core beliefs define who you are.
  • If someone read your core beliefs and knew
    nothing else about you, they would know who you
    are at your very center.
  • If one of your Core Beliefs were not true, was
    changed or removed you would cease to be who you
    are.

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What Are Core Beliefs?
  • Core beliefs are the biblical foundation for all
    you do.
  • You do what you do because you believe these
    things are true.
  • Core beliefs impact, in some way or another,
    virtually everything you do.

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How Do We State Core Beliefs?
  • Briefly.
  • As simply as possible. These are not
    comprehensive statements articulating the nuances
    of a biblical truth or doctrine.
  • Avoid obscure theological terms, Christian jargon
    and churchy language.

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How Do We State Core Beliefs?
  • Think street talk, not in any vulgar sense but
    rather in the sense that an unchurched person
    just off the street could readily understand.

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How Do We State Core Beliefs?
  • If a word used in stating a core belief would
    likely generate a question, we would want that
    question to be one thats vitally important to
    understand. In other words, a word that creates
    a desired teaching moment is acceptable.

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How Are Core Beliefs Used?
  • They are
  • The door opener, for further conversation and
    teaching about a vital Biblical truth.

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How Are Core Beliefs Used?
  • They are
  • The leading edge of declaring a vital, deep and
    often complex Biblical truth.
  • Taught through annually.
  • They are alluded to whenever appropriate
    throughout the year and in varied settings.

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How Are Core Beliefs Used?
  • They are
  • Printed and are used a part of the process of
    introducing the church to an inquirer or
    potential member. They would be reviewed as part
    of a new member orientation process.
  • Part of a cluster of defining declarations
    your Core Beliefs, Core Values, Mission and
    Vision Statements.

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Core Values
  • Not an academic statement listing your entire
    value system
  • Identification and articulation of those values
    that significantly impact who you are and what
    you do
  • The things that motivate you and shape what you
    do, not what you say

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Core Values
  • Ministry principles by which you live
  • The things for which you will spend your lives
  • The hills you are prepared to die on
  • One Core Value per Core Belief
  • Briefly stated, more brief than Core Beliefs
  • Core Values are what we will do in light of what
    we believe.

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Core Values
  • The verbal construct
  • Not We believe..., Therefore we value
  • We believe, Therefore we will
  • Express values in terms of behavior

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Facilitators Position Description
  • Assignment
  • Create a Ministry Map which will guide the
    Church in its ministry planning and
    implementation over the next three to five years.
  • The Ministry Map will be the foundation upon
    which the churchs staff (Paid and unpaid, full
    and part time) will build their Annual Ministry
    Plans.

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Facilitators Position Description
  • Tasks
  • The Ministry Map is comprised of the churchs
    Core Beliefs and Values, Mission and Vision
    Statements,
  • The Mapping Team will work together to
  • Identify and articulate the churchs Core Beliefs
  • Identify and articulate the churchs Core Values
  • Clarify the churchs Mission
  • Articulate the churchs Vision

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Mapping Team Makeup
  • Not less than 5 and not more than 9
  • Mixture and Balance of
  • Long-timers and relatively new but involved
  • Pastoral staff (minimally Senior or Transitional
    Pastor)
  • Governing Board Members
  • Ministry Leaders
  • Systems thinkers
  • Wordsmiths

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Mapping Team Makeup
  • Personal Qualities
  • Cooperative and collaborative
  • Verbal people, good with words
  • Willing to speak up and lobby for their viewpoint
  • Cannot be
  • Argumentative
  • Domineering
  • Judgmental
  • Rigid

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Mapping Team Makeup
  • Personal Qualities
  • Biblically literate (Knowledgeable)
  • Theologically astute (Insightful)
  • Person who tends to think diagonally
  • Sees things from different point of view
  • Readily sees alternatives
  • Flexible and creative
  • Deeply committed to the church
  • Happy to be part of the mapping process

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Preparatory Materials
  • Primary Teaching Passages
  • God
  • God the Father
  • God the Son
  • God the Holy Spirit
  • Bible
  • Humankind, Sin, Salvation
  • Church
  • Worship
  • Prayer

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Coaching the Process
  • Your role is to
  • Frame the discussion
  • Guide the discussion
  • Move the process along
  • Develop sense of when to let the discussion go
    and when to cut it off and force a decision
  • Emulate Chicago Politics
  • Vote early and vote often
  • Help them with wordsmithing

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Coaching the Process
  • Remember, in the end
  • The work must be theirs

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Coaching the Process
  • Brevity is mandatory. We will use enough words
    to say it well but not one word more
  • Core Beliefs are typically stated in 15 words or
    less
  • Core Values are typically stated in 8 word or less

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Coaching the Process
  • Great scientific insights are measured in
    paragraphs and pages.
  • In 1923 Louis de Broglie provided one of the
    fundamental insights of quantum mechanics in a
    four page paper.
  • Einsteins theory of relativity was encapsulated
    in a series of five articles totaling 75 pages.

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Coaching the Process
  • By contrast, it seems the great theological
    insights are better measured in pounds rather
    than pages.
  • Most people cannot lift much less read and
    understand Aquinas Summa Theologica, Calvins
    Institutes, or Barths Church Dogmatics.

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Coaching the Process
  • Avoid wasted words (like that) and superfluous
    adjectives
  • Avoid churchy language, Christian jargon,
    unnecessary Biblical or theological words
  • State Biblical and theological concepts in words
    that the unsaved, unchurched, untaught and
    uninitiated can readily understand

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Coaching the Process
  • Use Biblical and theological words when
  • They are the clearest, most accurate and richest
    words we can think of
  • The concept is so fundamentally crucial that we
    intentionally want to create a teaching moment

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Coaching the Process
  • Whenever possible use present tense, active voice
    verbs
  • Avoid verbs like is, and are in favor of
    verbs like wants, loves, directs, frees, calls,
    sends, saves, instructs, etc.
  • Avoid laundry lists

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Breakout Session
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Core Beliefs
  • Examples of God Statements

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One, Comprehensive Statement
  • We believe God, the loving Father, Son and Holy
    Spirit wants all people to be saved.

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One, Comprehensive Statement
  • We believe there is one true God Father, Son and
    Holy Spirit as revealed in the Bible.

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One, Comprehensive Statement
  • We believe the God of grace and love desires to
    be in relationship with all people.

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Three Statement Model
  • God the Father is the creator and sustainer of
    all.
  • God the Son, Jesus Christ, purchased our
    forgiveness and frees us to live Christ-centered
    lives.
  • God, the Holy Spirit, gifts us with faith and
    empowers us for a life of love and service.

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Four Statement Model
  • The only true God lives eternally in community as
    Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
  • The Father creates all people for a loving
    relationship with Him.
  • Jesus, through His death and resurrection enables
    sinful people to enjoy a life-changing
    relationship with the Holy God.
  • The Holy Spirit lives in all Christ-followers
    molding them into His likeness and empowering
    them to serve others.

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Four Statement Model
  • The eternal, triune God is
  • Father Almighty, Creator and Master of all
  • Jesus the Son, the crucified, risen and reigning
    Savior
  • Holy Spirit who creates faith, motivates for
    mission and empowers for fruitful service

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Mission Statement
  • Your God-given task
  • Biblically based
  • Unchanging
  • Churches do not get to pick their mission
  • The Churchs mission is the Great Commission

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Mission Statement
  • Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
    baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
    the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them
    to obey everything I have commanded you. And
    surely I am with you always, to the very end of
    the age.
  • Matthew 2819-20

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Mission Statement
  • Many churches simply say, We exist to make
    mature (obedient) disciples.
  • Or some other, similar recitation of the heart of
    the Great Commission
  • Some want to say it in a specific way that is
    meaningful to them.
  • We exist to empower Christ-followers to engage a
    ready world with the hope and joy of Christ.
  • We exist to reach the world for Christ, one
    person at a time.

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Mission Statements
  • We live to transform lives by following and
    proclaiming Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
  • Our mission is to help people know Christ and
    grow to be like Him.
  • We exist to be a community which enables people
    from all backgrounds to become mature followers
    of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy
    Spirit.

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Mission Statements
  • We exist to equip God's people to do His work in
    His world.
  • We exist to carry out the Great Commission, live
    out the Great Commandment, and serve the Great
    Commander.
  • We are a family of faith, lovingly adopting lost
    children.

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Vision
  • Vision for ministry is a clear mental image of a
    preferable future, imparted by God to His chosen
    servants, based upon an accurate understanding of
    God, self and circumstances. - George Barna
  • Vision is a word picture of what it will look
    like when you accomplish your mission

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Vision Statement
  • Flows from and is consistent with your
    foundational beliefs, core values and mission
  • More specific, more distinctive and more unique
    than a mission statement
  • Brief
  • Understandable without interpretation

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Vision Statement
  • Church must have a single, clear, concise,
    widely-known, broadly accepted Vision
  • A good Vision is compelling

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Vision Statements
  • We will be the church of choice for the
    educational community in Benicia and its
    environs.
  • We envision our congregation as a thriving body
    of believers, producing an ever-increasing number
    of disciples who follow Christ in faithful
    obedience and joyful service.

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Vision Statements
  • Ten percent of Prior Lakes population will be in
    weekly contact with our church where they will
    become partners in Gods plan to shape our
    community, country and world.
  • We envision a growing movement of transformed
    people reshaping the culture to reflect Gods
    heart.

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Vision Statements
  • Our Vision is to be a community of people who
    love Christ, live like Christ, serve Christ and
    share Christ.
  • We see FBCP in the heart of the community with
    the
  • Sanctuary filled with worshippers
  • Building filled for Gods purposes
  • Community filled with transformed lives and
  • World filled with disciples who share Christs
    love.

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Transformational Vision
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The Value of Vision
  • Vision has value only when it
  • Shapes our thinking
  • Aligns what we do
  • Focuses our efforts
  • Helps Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing
  • Results in the making of mature disciples
  • The Missing Catalyst Transformational Vision

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Transformational Vision
  • Dramatically, fundamentally changes churchs
    behavior
  • Shortens the distance between the idea and the
    implementation
  • Transforms the church
  • From inward focus to outward focus
  • From a culture of activity to culture of
    effectiveness
  • From a Country Club to Missional Outpost
  • From merely having the form of Godliness to
    living in His power (2 Timothy 35)

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Transformational Vision
  • The Transferrable Nature of Transformational
    Vision
  • For years I have taught, A churchs vision is
    unique.
  • Now I believe that vision can be transferrable
  • Each churchs uniqueness is expressed in how it
    achieves that vision.

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Transformational Vision
  • Three Areas
  • Outreach
  • Evangelism
  • Disciple-making
  • Disciple-making obvious since that is the Mission!

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Transformational Vision
  • Outreach and Evangelism
  • Many see them as separate and unique
  • Others see them as interchangeable

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Transformational Vision
  • They are NOT interchangeable
  • Outreach is just as its name implies reaching
    out
  • A systematic attempt to provide services beyond
    conventional limits, as to particular segments of
    a community an educational outreach to
    illiterate adults.
  • Evangelism is the communication of the Good News
    resulting in conversions

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Transformational Vision
  • Outreach without evangelistic results is
    incomplete
  • And evangelism without outreach is ineffective
  • The Biblical case for both
  • Matthew 516
  • Acts 242-47
  • I Peter 212

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Matthew 516
  • In the same way, let your light shine before men,
    that they may see your good deeds and praise your
    Father in heaven.
  • Matthew 516

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Acts 244-47
  • All the believers were together and had
    everything in common. Selling their possessions
    and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.
    Every day they continued to meet together in the
    temple courts.

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Acts 244-47
  • They broke bread in their homes and ate together
    with glad and sincere hearts, praising God
    and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the
    Lord added to their number daily those who were
    being saved.

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Acts 244-47
  • They broke bread in their homes and ate together
    with glad and sincere hearts, praising God
    and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the
    Lord added to their number daily those who were
    being saved.

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Acts 244-47
  • All the believers were together and had
    everything in common. Selling their possessions
    and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.
    Every day they continued to meet together in the
    temple courts.
  • Sacrificed for the sake of others
  • Were generous toward those in need

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1 Peter 212
  • Live such good lives among the pagans that,
    though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may
    see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he
    visits us.

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Transformational Vision
  • The wedding of Outreach and Evangelism in
    practice
  • Bayside of Granite Bay (Sacramento), CA
  • Good works
  • Produces good will
  • Giving opportunity for the Good News!

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Formatting Transformational Vision
  • Six specific goals in three categories
  • Outreach (1)
  • Evangelism (1)
  • Disciple-making (4)

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Outreach (Good Works)
  • Various ways to state the goal
  • Individual Mobilization or Event based approach
  • Can be a combination of both approaches
  • Individual Mobilization
  • Number or Percentage of people involved
  • Number of people/families impacted
  • What does impact look like?

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Outreach (Good Works)
  • Event Based Approach
  • Volunteer in community
  • Community improvement projects
  • Adopt a school
  • Car Care for Single Moms, Widows
  • The Externally Focused Church Rusaw and
    Erickson (Group Publishing)
  • 99 Innovations

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Evangelism (Win People to Christ)
  • We will achieve a minimum of __ of adult
    conversions in 2009.
  • The minimum to 10 of average weekly worship
    attendance
  • Adult converts
  • Partnering with God in the Great Work of
    Evangelism
  • Pray
  • Plan
  • Work

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Disciple-making
  • Increase the number or percentage of people in
    each of the following four categories
  • Category One In crease by a minimum of _____
    those attending worship regularly
  • You define "regularly"

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Disciple-making
  • Increase the number or percentage of people in
    each of the following four categories
  • Category Two Increase by a minimum of _____
    those participating in the life of a Small Group
    in the context of your church.

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Disciple-making
  • "Small group" is any group that provides its
    participants with the following
  • Fellowship and mutual care
  • Accountability
  • Opportunity or encouragement in ministry or
    mission involvement
  • Growth in Biblical understanding and application
  • Growth in the discipline of prayer

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Disciple-making
  • Increase the number or percentage of people in
    each of the following four categories
  • Category Three Increase by a minimum of _____
    those regularly involved in some form of Ministry
    or Mission
  • Ministry - on campus, church based, primarily for
    the people of the church
  • Mission - off campus, in the community, in the
    world, primarily for people who are not yet part
    of the church

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Disciple-making
  • Increase the number or percentage of people in
    each of the following four categories
  • Category Four Increase by a minimum of _____
    those who have directly contributed to at least
    one person coming to Christ in the last 12 months
  • "Directly" means actual, personal relationship
    and influence of some kind in that person's life
    and decision.
  • Single convert will most often be attributed to
    multiple people.

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Action Plan
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Two Step Process
  • Establish SMART Goals
  • List the Action Steps required to achieve each
    goal

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Goal Setting
  • Establish church-wide SMART Goals in each Key
    Measurement Area
  • Conversions

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Goal Setting
  • Establish church-wide SMART Goals in each Key
    Measurement Area
  • Conversions
  • Attendance
  • Assimilation
  • Lay Involvement
  • Small Group Involvement
  • Leader Development
  • Tithers

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Goal Setting
  • Typically at least one SMART Goal for each
    Measurement Area
  • Every staff person (paid, unpaid, full or
    part-time) and ministry will establish SMART
    Goals that contribute to the church-wide goals
  • Lead them in establishing one SMART Goal
  • Typically conversions
  • Review, critique and refine their work on the
    remaining goals

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Create Action Plan
  • Action Plan consists of the Action Steps required
    to achieve their SMART Goal
  • If the Action Plan is too detailed it will be
    counter-productive
  • But must be detailed enough to cover all the main
    activities required

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Create Action Plan
  • The creation of a System is often a basic Action
    Step in an initial Action Plan
  • Focus them on no more than three systems in one
    Ministry Year
  • Foundational Cluster
  • Evangelism
  • Assimilation
  • Lay Involvement

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Create Action Plan
  • Action Steps are often expressed in a SMART Goal
    format
  • Sometimes soft on the Results-oriented
    requirement since the results are included in the
    Goal itself

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Breakout Session
  • Establish a Goal
  • Create your Action Steps to achieve the Goal

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