Strategic Goals Adopted December 2013
Last fall we solicited input from the church regarding a Visioning and Goal Setting Exercise. We received hundreds of responses. Then more than 40 members of our congregation met over a weekend with Br. Bishop D. Wayne Burkett to collate and interpret those responses. Over the weekend we developed a list of tactical goals, and that was fun. Then we had a smaller team meet to refine those tactical goals into a series of strategic goals for submission to the Joint Board. The Joint Board adopted them at our December Meeting. Strategic Goals are different from tactical goals; they are less specific. They say, “Accomplish this objective.” They do not spell out how to accomplish it. Each of these strategic goals grew out of tactical goals, and the boards will keep all of those tactics in mind, as we continue to seek best way accomplish these strategic goals. Many of these goals are already in the works, like the Strategic Goal 10, which is featured this month in “Across the Pastor’s Desk.” A timeline is being established for all others. The Boards will endeavor to evaluate and accomplish each of these strategic goals with the continued input and assistance of the congregation. Some may yet be “folded together.” Some are about evaluating our present way of doing things, and they may simply state that. Whatever the case, we want you to know that our staff and boards are working on these goals, and that the work is ongoing. You will be hearing more about these goals in the future. ~ The Pastor 1. Strategic Goal: We will endeavor to look for the full seat, identifying and reaching out to visitors with intentionality, so that we might respond to their presence among us with hospitality. 2. Strategic Goal: We will endeavor to look for the empty seat, noting the sudden and continual absence of individual church members from worship and/or from Sunday school. Where members have hitherto belonged and “dropped-out,” we will seek to restore them to their place. Where visitors and members have yet to find a place in a Sunday school class or BAG we will seek to help them find it. 3. Strategic Goal: We will evaluate the way we elect our boards to insure that all our constituencies are properly represented. 4. Strategic Goal: We will encourage all our members to advance God’s ministry to God’s people through their gifts of gratitude for God’s goodness, love and blessings by creating 1) a culture within the church that empowers members to serve Christ using their Godgiven talents and blessings and 2) the necessary structure to support good stewardship of these God-given talents and blessings. 5. Strategic Goal: We will begin a recycle program that will contribute to the welfare of environment.