Some keys to church planning seem to run counter to common practice. But applied intelligently, they can result in stronger, healthier churches.
Ignore your weaknesses. The usual pattern for planning in churches goes something like this: size up the ministry, identify any major weaknesses, develop and implement a plan for removing them. Yet this strategy is counterproductive: time spent worrying about weaknesses siphons away time and energy better spent on identifying and developing strengths. Instead of taking a creative and proactive approach, planning ends up defensive and reactive. The result is most often a mediocre program.
Churches, like individuals, have been gifted and called to do some things uncommonly well-and other things not at all.
Leaders have a special intuition. We probably all know leaders whose internal compass consistently works better than anyone else's in the room. Everyone else is trying to find the right direction in a particular circumstance, and then this individual, who's been quietly listening, speaks up and suggests a certain course, and everybody says, "That's it. Of course, that's it." How did he or she do that? ...
Some keys to church planning seem to run counter to common practice. But applied intelligently, they can result in stronger, healthier churches.
1. Ignore your weaknesses. The usual pattern for planning in churches goes something like this: size up the ministry, identify any major weaknesses, develop and implement a plan for removing them. Yet this strategy is counterproductive: time spent worrying ...
ARTICLE Apply, Screen, Select Save yourself complications later by spending time on this task first. Scott Kirby
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A short-term project involves an enormous investment of time, energy, and money. People are going to be thrown together as a team into stressful, cross-cultural situations. You must decide how you are going to screen applicants.
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Application forms should give the following information: full name (as it appears on passport), address, phone numbers (work and home), e-mail address, birth date, ...
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