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By Melissa Rau
This month we are highlighting five resources to help your vestry or other church groups learn more about strategic visioning and planning.
By Janet Lombardo
Congregations often want to be all things to all people, jumping on every new idea without considering whether it supports the congregation’s mission to the community. The ideas may be good individually, but how do they align with the congregation’s mission and ministry? When a congregation fragments its mission, it is a recipe for failure.
By Linda Buskirk
Here is a creative way to get visionary juices flowing at your next Vestry planning retreat: Start writing your congregation’s 2023 Annual Report.
By Linda Buskirk
Strategic planner that I am, I love it when a plan starts coming together with results. One of the readings for Epiphany, Ephesians 3: 1-12, reveals some pretty amazing aspects of God’s plan already in the works.
By Sandra T. Montes
Sandra Montes comparte la experiencia del bootcamp piloto español de ECF que reunió a los líderes de la iglesia para la tarea crítica de la visión y la planificación.
By Sandra T. Montes
Sandra Montes shares the experience of ECF’s pilot Spanish bootcamp which brought together church leaders for the critical task of visioning and planning.
By Daniel Heischman
Daniel Heischman uses examples from Episcopal Schools, and urges us to claim our unique Episcopal identity, using it to form the core of our strategic visioning and planning.
By Kenji Kuramitsu
Kenji Kuramitsu asks challenging questions and offers an unafraid vision of what the church may be if we are brave enough to live into our calling.
By Miguel Escobar
Miguel Escobar shares a tool that helps vestries and other leadership groups think through the strengths and weaknesses of an idea as a team.
By Annette Buchanan
It is important to add this critical topic (disaster preparedness) to the agenda at our next Vestry meeting.
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