Strategy, Method, and Analysis for Church Leaders

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. [...]

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 [...]

Going Door-to-Door to Assess Stakeholders

posted on October 16, 2009 2 Comments

How many people do you know that enjoy going door-to-door? If you’ve done this yourself you know what I mean. Regardless of the purpose, spending a day going door-to-door takes courage and is not usually much fun. Every year here at Christ’s Church of the Valley we spend several days working on our Strategic Plan. [...]

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 [...]

Strategic Planning – Step by Step

posted on September 20, 2009 2 Comments
Strategic Planning Flowchart

Developing a “plan and execute” culture in the local church is critical to success! Here’s a “step by step” description of the process of developing a strategic plan. This can be done in a fairly short time and without much difficulty and cost. Check this out and give it a try! Stakeholder Needs Using numerous [...]