#Agenda 2 Engage in Strategic Planning

#Agenda 2 Engage in Strategic Planning

What is my agenda? My agenda is to help Pastors and Christian Leaders strategise and plan for the future I make no apologise for this.

I am amazed by the number of church leaders I meet who don’t know how to strategically plan. Sadly, strategic planning is not something normally taught at Bible college. A few church leaders can tell me what they want for their churches right now, and some can tell me their plan for the next twelve months. However, most leaders I’ve met do not know where they want their church to be in three to five years’ time, and even fewer would have a plan for the next ten years. “God will take care of that,” they often say to me.

Other leaders try to plan, but they don’t understand the concept or the detail required. They may find that they do not have the training or organizational skills to maintain a healthy, large church. They use a “pay-as-you-go” type of leadership.

Then there are leaders who realize they don’t have the abilities to raise up the other leaders required to sustain growth and continue the increase. This inadequacy can often lead to paranoid leadership because when new leaders finally do emerge to fill the obvious gaps, the original band of leaders become suspicious.

So what is strategic planning as it relates directly to our churches?

Simply put, strategic planning is an attempt to position the church within its environment. It is fully understanding where we have come from and how we got here, and then knowing where we want to go and how we want to get there. Before an organization or movement can form a strategic plan, it needs to have already done a number of things:

a.       Defined a clear vision (where they are going).

b.      Identified their core values. These values underpin who they are at a foundational level. They shape practices, decisions, and thought processes. Such values are non-negotiable.

c.       Set out a clear process by which the vision can be accomplished.

d.      Write it down and chart the course of actions to be taken.

A few things to think about perhaps. If you want to read more click on the link;

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