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Evaluating Your Vision Planning

Written by: Ron Edmondson

Article Overview: So, here are some of the tough questions I’m asking myself. While at this point these are personal questions I am processing, yesterday I shared these with our staff for their input and to spur their thoughts in similar directions. I welcome your input if you have questions or thoughts that would be good for us to consider or if you have insight for a church at our stage of its life-cycle.

Evaluating Your Vision Planning

What is the next level for your organization? Do you have a vision to get you there?

As we approach our third anniversary as a church, I’m in a deep brainstorming timeabout where God would want us to leadthechurch in the coming years. God has blessed us with three wonderful years, but what’s next? I have always believed and taught that a healthy church is a growing church, so what is our role in producing that growth. Of course our overall vision remains the same. We wantto make growing followers of Jesus Christ.Iknow thatGod ultimately is the One who grows the church and people, but I also know that He usespeople to carry out His will.Will what worked to accomplish our growth the first three yearswork the same way in the next three years? As fast as the world is changing, and since we are a culture invading church, reaching people who are very entrenched in the culture, it would make sense that we wouldneed to be readyto make changes quickly to maintain our growth.

So, here aresome of the tough questions I’m asking myself.While at this point these are personal questions I am processing, yesterday I shared these with our staff for their input and to spur their thoughts in similar directions.I welcome your input if you have questions or thoughts that would be good for us to consider or if you have insight for a church at our stage of its life-cycle.

Where do we want to go? What specific goals in eachareaof ministry do we have for the next three years in regards to numbersof peopleengaged andnumbers of people volunteering? What changes need to be made to our current structuredprograms in order to better disciple people? Do we need to alter our service times, tweak our style ofmusic or add new services to reach new people?

How are we going to get there? Once we know where we want to go, what steps need to be in place to accomplish each of the goals? How much will it cost? Will our current facilities be enough to sustain our new growth goals?

Who is going to lead the way? Are the right people in place to take us to the next level? Do we need to add staff or alter responsibilities in order to achieve maximum results from everyone on the team? How many new volunteers will be needed to meet our goals?

These are just a few of my questions. Again, I welcome your input in this process.

Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.Proverbs 15:22 NIV

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