- Mission
- Core Values
- Purpose
- Church-Wide Vision - which includes three pieces: Critical Success Factors (the things we must do to assure we prevail at our mission), Goals (that stretch us, but are at the same time doable and measurable), and Church-wide Objectives (how everyone in the church can get involved in the process of achieving our goals).
We've been working on this stuff for a long time. In retrospect, it may have been better to bring the various pieces to the church to talk through at individual stages. But the package is going to the board next week (January 27th) and then to the whole church in a business meeting before the end of March.
The Team left excited last night. We were excited because our work as a Team to develop the concepts are nearly complete, but more excited because as one person said, "Now we finally get to put the keys in the car and drive!" Yes, this is the ship that will drive us and lead us forward in our decisions. This is the path to get us into alignment.
I'm excited about it, because it's simple, but not simplistic. It's careful and thoughtful. And it will help us pull everything together to assure that we're truly going to go forward with all of this. This is no simple mission that is hung on the wall and printed in the bulletin, although we may do that. This is clearly something that will drive us to our knees as we seek to move the church forward.
Stay tuned to see all these in print here....
