Many church and ministry leaders are familiar with the usually dreaded process of developing a strategy plan. Some leaders suffered through the great effort of developing a strategy plan about every five years—organizational analysis, SWOT analysis, demographic studies, visioneering, mission development, and constructing of goals as action steps. The usual result of all of the [...]
May 19, 2009
Categories: Simple Discipleship . Tags: baptist church decline, Change Management, church decline, Church Leadership, Church Management, Church Organizational Development, Church Planning, Church Strategy Planning, Discipleship, Missional Church, Simple Discipleship, Southern Baptist Convention, Turnaround Churches . Author: Dr. Tom Cocklereece . Comments: 2 Comments
I live in Cobb County Georgia, USA, where last week I looked at the front page of my local newspaper and was surprised to see that our school board had proposed a controversial change in the grading system. They are proposing to do away with the A-B-C-D-F measurement to a 3a-3-2-1 grading system. Of course, [...]
May 11, 2009
Categories: Simple Discipleship . Tags: Simple Discipleship, Change Management, Church Organizational Development, Discipleship, church decline, baptist church decline, Church Leadership, Church Planning, Church Management, Turnaround Churches, Southern Baptist Convention, Church Strategy Planning, measuring results . Author: Dr. Tom Cocklereece . Comments: 5 Comments