Episcopal Church Foundation Vestry Papers - for leading congregations

This month we offer five resources to help your congregation with vision and planning. Please share this digest with your parish leadership and extend an invitation to subscribe to ECF Vital Practices.

1. The Difference Between Mission and Vision
The Difference Between Mission and Vision shares simple definitions and explains how mission and vision statements are strategic tools to help a congregation stay focused.

2. Surviving or growing into the future?
In Surviving or Growing Into the Future? we learn how congregational leaders choose to face the future has a significant impact on the financial health of the parish.

3. ECF First Step
ECF First Step is an on-line assessment tool designed specifically for parishes to help articulate challenges and/or growth opportunities as a first step towards prioritizing needs.

4. Ways to Let God Lead Your Vestry
Ways to Let God Lead Your Vestry shares how clergy and vestry leaders can re-envision their vestry so members can help the church stay focused on what matters most: what God is doing in the lives of church members and their neighbors.

5. Why Articulate Your Mission & Vision?
Why Articulate Your Mission & Vision? looks at the role of leadership in forming the vision of the congregation and how to engage the whole community in this process.