Mission Action Planning
Required of us by the diocese
Church leaders must attend training
Each church must produce a MAP
Each deanery must have a MAP
Mission Action Planning
Strategic planning (a process)
Review your situation
Choose future priorities
Make plans
Act on the plans
Mission Action PlanningLeadership Team
Bill Goslin & Gill Grisedale (wardens)
Dave Nelson (reader)
John Hazelhurst (reader in training)
Linda Lawrence (CLM in training)
Ed & Jo Northey (curates)
Ian Hook (vicar)
Mission Action PlanningLeadership Team
Meeting/Praying regularly
Leading Your Church into Growth
Mission Action PlanningTheology of Strategic Planning
Exodus 18:17f
‘too heavy for you alone’
‘you do what God called you to do’
‘appoint a team’
Mission Action PlanningTheology of Strategic Planning
Deuteronomy 1:9f
‘chooses priorities’
‘context is growth’
‘consensus’
‘Acts on the plan’
Mission Action PlanningTheology of Strategic Planning
Acts 6:1f
‘context is still growth’
‘choosing priorities…. again’
‘appoint a team…. again’
‘consensus…. again’
‘outcome is growth’
Mission Action PlanningTheology of Strategic Planning
1Corinthians 3:1f
‘growth is not the same as health’
‘Corinthian church side-tracked’
‘leaders…. lead’
‘leaders…. serve’
‘God grows HIS church’
Mission Action Planning
We do not see growth in attendance numbers as the main goal of a growth strategy. Rather it is the growth in mission related areas – for example in faith, in discipleship, in worship and in spreading God’s love into communities
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Mission Action Planning
…at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:10-11
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