Strategy, Method, and Analysis for Church Leaders

A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place

posted on September 21, 2011 Leave a Comment

The more I do this job, the more I realize that much of what I’ve learned over my years in corporate applies to managing the church.  “Doing church” each weekend is a lot about logistics.  You know … having everything you need, where you need it, when you need it.  Pulling this off, though, in [...]

Technology and the Church

posted on December 27, 2010 2 Comments

I have often said that developing a strong Information Technology (IT) infrastructure is a key to helping an organization accomplish its goals.  Does this extend to the church?  Absolutely! Where else is accomplishing the goal (mission) more important?  While doing some research on the topic of Technology, I found this post dealing with this topic and [...]

Budgeting – It’s That Time of Year!

posted on November 19, 2010 Leave a Comment

In my role as Executive Pastor, one of the things I can never avoid is doing the budget for the church each year. That’s right! Along about October/November the budget is due to the eldership, and it takes a bunch of work to get it together. I thought this year I would share the process [...]

New Resource Page

posted on May 12, 2010 4 Comments

This site is all about sharing information with other church leaders on strategy, method, and analysis. God called me to leave corporate to become part of the staff here at CCV and my desire, above and beyond my role on this church staff, is to put myself out there in service to other church leaders. [...]

Church Discipline

posted on April 16, 2010 1 Comment

I’ve talked with many church leaders in my travels and have ongoing contact with many as well. One of the “areas of challenge” that comes up from time to time is what the church leadership should do about divisive people in the church. We’ve managed to document a number of policies and procedures around here [...]

Executive Pastor Job Description

posted on February 26, 2010 Leave a Comment

I’ve been asked a number of times for “a copy of my job description.” For whatever reason, though, I’ve never documented my position here at Christ’s Church of the Valley. Despite my strong belief in the development of infrastructure as the highest priority in building a strong, capable organization … I’ve never taken the time [...]

Management System – Document Hierarchy

posted on January 30, 2010 2 Comments

I’ve recently gotten a few questions about document hierarchy. Since I haven’t yet created the master document for any Management System (The Management System Manual), I was unable to easily answer the questions. Here’s a quick summary … First, take a look at this post: Management System – Form, Fit, and Function The management system is made [...]

Leadership Evangelism Operating Procedure

posted on November 16, 2009 Leave a Comment

1. Purpose The purpose of this operating procedure is to establish, document, and communicate the process for intentionally identifying, assessing, developing, and deploying leaders at Christ’s Church of the Valley (CCV). 2. Scope The leadership evangelism process should be used by Ministry Staff to identify and deploy leaders into ministry for the good of the [...]

Back to Basics

posted on October 21, 2009 Leave a Comment

I have a love/hate relationship with wakeup calls. You know, when you are reminded by someone that you’re not doing what you know you should be doing. Have you ever had that kind of a wakeup call? I love the fact that someone comes along and says “hello!” and points out the obvious. But, I [...]

Strategic Planning Operating Procedure

posted on October 2, 2009 5 Comments
Strategic Planning Process Flowchart

Purpose The purpose of this operating procedure is to establish, document, and communicate the process for strategic planning at Christ’s Church of the Valley (CCV). Scope The strategic planning process is used by ministry staff to evaluate the organization’s performance, in terms of meeting stakeholder needs, and to develop a plan to better meet those [...]

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