The leaders in the conference have a responsibility to plan where
the church needs to go and help people come alongside you in the plan. That is what we want to start in going through the Strategic Planning Process in the individual churches. This will include the current external ministry situation, a resource release timeline, where they want to be in 1, 3, and 6 months, and the critical path steps and tactics. Glenn wanted the churches to design their journey over the next six months to mobilize volunteers in the community.
Hoover has a ministry outreach called Black Community Development. Their current ministry situation is that they have a 7 day/24 hour ministry with various programs mostly focused on people serving the underserved families with children. They have ministries in gang-related youth, literacy, job readiness, and affordable housing. Their current external situation is that in the mid-town community where the church is a 12 Step Street Plan to revitalize the mid-town area. There plan is to organize the community, get information, identify partners to support in their area for journey to redevelopment, and identify clients. The three month plan is to engage partners in resourcing people, money, and expertise and plan for ministry movement to empower others to create a sustainable system. The six month plan is to review action plan.
Second Baptist Church's current ministry situation is that they have three ministries - homeless, evangelism, and Circle of Love with possibly 20% member participation. They are stuck in getting people out of the pews. The one month plan is to tell the stories more to the neighborhoods and in the homes. The three month plan is to invite people into ministry service, and the six month plan is to increase the 20% to 40% and recognize and celebrate volunteers.
Summit Church is considering that Luis Palau is coming to Little Rock. They want to focus on how to get people ready for that. The current ministry situation is that there are a lot of people not connected or directed, or they are burned out. The opportunity of Palau is that it could force the church to get motivated to train volunteer staff and to work with cross-cultural churches. There plan is to pray to the Lord of the harvest, identify key leaders - the positive deviants, help those leaders to invite people into mentoring and discipleship, meet with current small group leaders one on one and ask them to bring along key people to apprentice, share stories, and develop a plan to mobilize strategic service teams.
Fellowship Bible Church's mission is to equip and unleash Christ-followers to change the world through lives of irrestible influence. The idea of discipleship is usually just to train, but they want to get more people serving. The external situation is we have a new president focused on service and individual responsibility, the economic situation, and the increasing unity in the community. The current ministry situation is there is new energy in leadership. They also have many people involved in ministry, but there is a need for training. The plan is to pray, identify issues and opportunities, invite, train by telling stories, and TAFERR.
The Geyer Springs church's current ministry situation is that they have 2,350 in worship, 1,750 in Sunday school, a 6 million dollar budget, 35 total in ministerial and support, 1,000 serving, a good reputation, and great facilities. The current external situation is an unstable income, diverse racial make-up, middle to lower income area, and at least 50% unchurched. Their purpose statement is Building Lives, Building Families, and Reaching People. Their plan is to provide opportunities to whole family, small group assimilation into discipleship groups, GS Fest and Sharefest follow-up, and to continue the Upward program which is their number one program. They have been able to identify unchurched people through this program.
the church needs to go and help people come alongside you in the plan. That is what we want to start in going through the Strategic Planning Process in the individual churches. This will include the current external ministry situation, a resource release timeline, where they want to be in 1, 3, and 6 months, and the critical path steps and tactics. Glenn wanted the churches to design their journey over the next six months to mobilize volunteers in the community. 
Hoover has a ministry outreach called Black Community Development. Their current ministry situation is that they have a 7 day/24 hour ministry with various programs mostly focused on people serving the underserved families with children. They have ministries in gang-related youth, literacy, job readiness, and affordable housing. Their current external situation is that in the mid-town community where the church is a 12 Step Street Plan to revitalize the mid-town area. There plan is to organize the community, get information, identify partners to support in their area for journey to redevelopment, and identify clients. The three month plan is to engage partners in resourcing people, money, and expertise and plan for ministry movement to empower others to create a sustainable system. The six month plan is to review action plan.
Second Baptist Church's current ministry situation is that they have three ministries - homeless, evangelism, and Circle of Love with possibly 20% member participation. They are stuck in getting people out of the pews. The one month plan is to tell the stories more to the neighborhoods and in the homes. The three month plan is to invite people into ministry service, and the six month plan is to increase the 20% to 40% and recognize and celebrate volunteers.
Summit Church is considering that Luis Palau is coming to Little Rock. They want to focus on how to get people ready for that. The current ministry situation is that there are a lot of people not connected or directed, or they are burned out. The opportunity of Palau is that it could force the church to get motivated to train volunteer staff and to work with cross-cultural churches. There plan is to pray to the Lord of the harvest, identify key leaders - the positive deviants, help those leaders to invite people into mentoring and discipleship, meet with current small group leaders one on one and ask them to bring along key people to apprentice, share stories, and develop a plan to mobilize strategic service teams.
Fellowship Bible Church's mission is to equip and unleash Christ-followers to change the world through lives of irrestible influence. The idea of discipleship is usually just to train, but they want to get more people serving. The external situation is we have a new president focused on service and individual responsibility, the economic situation, and the increasing unity in the community. The current ministry situation is there is new energy in leadership. They also have many people involved in ministry, but there is a need for training. The plan is to pray, identify issues and opportunities, invite, train by telling stories, and TAFERR.
The Geyer Springs church's current ministry situation is that they have 2,350 in worship, 1,750 in Sunday school, a 6 million dollar budget, 35 total in ministerial and support, 1,000 serving, a good reputation, and great facilities. The current external situation is an unstable income, diverse racial make-up, middle to lower income area, and at least 50% unchurched. Their purpose statement is Building Lives, Building Families, and Reaching People. Their plan is to provide opportunities to whole family, small group assimilation into discipleship groups, GS Fest and Sharefest follow-up, and to continue the Upward program which is their number one program. They have been able to identify unchurched people through this program.
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