Transforming Ministry and Strategic Planning
Transform can work with you to help you develop the Ministry and Strategic plans that can transform your church. Even more importantly, we can help you implement those plans.
Ministry Planning is about discovering what God is uniquely calling your church to be, and includes a Purpose Statement, Vision Statement, Mission Statement, and Core Values.
Strategic Planning is determining how you can intentionally move toward becoming the church or organization that your Ministry Plan describes.
Execution is about the implementation that must happen if the plans are to be more than a nice page on your website. And that requires more than just accountability and even more than change management. You must orchestrate the transitions with the people who are impacted and who need to adjust to make or allow the changes.
Transform can also help you determine the organizational changes needed to execute on the Ministry Plan.
And our unique approach to Leadership Coaching can become a part of your implementation plan, helping you stay on track and on target.
From Focusing on the Church in High Definition, by John Purcell:
Grace for Life Community Church is a good church. They have vibrant worship, a good Sunday School program, an important small group ministry, several missionaries that they support. They are doing pretty much what good churches do. People love the church, there are no crises, and membership is slowly creeping up even though attendance is pretty flat. But recently, Pastor Rich has had the feeling that they are not really “going” anywhere. There are few conversions, they don’t seem to be developing many new leaders, and he wonders whether the community would even miss them if they weren’t there. He is thinking about talking to the Elders about “vision,” but he doesn’t know what to suggest they do about it.
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Strategic Planning Made Simple, by John Purcell:
This is a good picture of what a STRATEGY is. Most simply put, it’s the PATH that you are following. OR you could say it is what you do. Whether is is an INTENTIONAL plan or an UNINTENTIONAL set of activities, your church does have a strategy, because you are doing many things that are taking you somewhere.
However, like this picture, you may not be able to SEE where your strategy is taking you. But the path may look attractive and pain-free. And it is definitely negotiable.
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“John helped us accomplish in 4 days what it would have taken my corporation 6 months to accomplish.”–From a church elder and retired Fortune 100 executive
“We are a much different church today than it was a year ago, we are so much healthier, and people are optimistic about the future.”–From another church elder