Twelve Keys to an Effective Church

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1 Introduction To Twelve Keys to an Effective Church by Dr. Kennon Callahan Abiding Savior Lutheran Church and School Strategic Mission Planning

2 Strategic Mission Planning Diagnostic Strategic Hopeful

3 Strategic Mission Planning: Diagnostic Provides Assessment of: The central characteristics of substantial missional churches The decisive dynamics in it regional community

4 Twelve Key Characteristics Mission Program Relational Visitation Worship Groupings Leadership Participation Access Visibility Parking Facilities Giving Functional

5 One Mission Outreach A strong, healthy congregation: Shares one major mission outreach in the community Helps directly with one of these: a life stage, a human hurt and hope, a common interest, or a community concern

6 One Mission Outreach Delivers concrete, effective help with persons and groupings in the community Is well known and well respected as legend in the community

7 Shepherding Visitation A strong, healthy congregation: Shares immediate, generous shepherding visits with persons who are in hospitals, homebound, in independent living, assisted living, and nursing homes Shares generous shepherding visits with our congregation: members, constituents, and family and friends of our congregation

8 Shepherding Visitation Shares generous shepherding visits with our community: first-time worshipers, newcomers, and friends in the community Shares shepherding visits that have a sacramental quality that benefits and blesses people s lives

9 Stirring, Helpful Worship A strong, healthy congregation: Shares worship that is warm, winsome, and welcoming Shares music that is inspiring and dynamic Shares preaching that is helpful and hopeful Shares worship that is stirring, with balance, power, and movement

10 Significant Relational Groupings A strong, healthy congregation: Has groupings that are open, inclusive, warm, and welcoming Has a healthy balance of one-time, seasonal, short-term, long-term, and weekly, monthly, year-round groupings

11 Significant Relational Groupings Encourages many new groupings Has groupings through which people discover a depth of sharing and caring

12 Strong Leadership Team A strong, healthy congregation: Achieves our key objectives Lives the four steps of leadership: loving, listening, learning, and leading

13 Strong Leadership Team Encourages the leadership qualities of competency, continuity, and mutual leadership Helps people fulfill their life searches

14 Solid Decision Process A strong, healthy congregation: Makes wise, thoughtful decisions in relation to our key objectives Has a strong sense of openness and ownership in our decision process

15 Solid Decision Process Shares a spirit of integrity, mutual respect, and trust with one another Has a simple structure based on our key objectives

16 One Major Program A strong, healthy congregation: Has one major program that is among the best in the community Serves many persons and families in the church with this one program

17 One Major Program Has leaders who are both person centered and program centered Has one major program that has some connection with our one major mission outreach

18 Open Accessibility A strong, healthy congregation: Has an excellent location, matching with the traffic direction patterns and average trip time horizons of our community

19 Open Accessibility Has generous site accessibility with adequate points of ingress and egress to our site Offers open, spacious entrances and exits to our building and helpful visible and hidden signs of welcome

20 Open Accessibility Shares a people accessibility of compassion with members, constituents, persons served in mission, and community persons

21 Open Accessibility A physical location that is accessible in terms of major traffic pattern and average trip time. Leaders who are accessible to the community.

22 High Visibility A strong, healthy congregation: Has excellent site visibility of its church location Has helpful signs and seasonal points of interest, which give it high visibility

23 High Visibility Has excellent communications visibility with the congregation and the community Has excellent people visibility in a worthwhile community project

24 Land, Landscaping, and Parking A strong, healthy congregation: Owns sufficient, usable land for our present life and future mission

25 Land, Landscaping, and Parking Has landscaping that contributes to a first impression of an open and spacious, warm and welcoming, inviting and gracious spirit

26 Land, Landscaping, and Parking Has adequate parking for our ten major Sundays of the year Has adequate parking for our normal Sundays and for our weekday use.

27 Adequate Space and Facilities A strong, healthy congregation: Has adequate space and facilities for our present and future mission, shepherding, worship services, groupings, and programs Has a balance between our land, landscaping, parking, and our space and facilities

28 Adequate Space and Facilities Has space and facilities that are well maintained on a regular basis Has space and facilities that create a warm first impression of welcome, being attractive, and helping persons feel at home

29 Generous Giving A strong, healthy congregation: Is a congregation of generous people Makes available all six sources of giving - Spontaneous gifts, Major community Sundays, Special planned, Major project, Annual giving, and Enduring gifts

30 Generous Giving Lives the principles of giving Living is giving. People give to a winning cause. People have spirit of generosity. People live forward to positive expectancies. People give to people. Money follows mission. People give out of compassion, community, and hope. Relax, have fun, enjoy life, live in Christ

31 Generous Giving Builds on the best practices, the three resources, that contribute to generous giving giving pattern, assets, and giving family

32 Fundamental Principles 1. The relational characteristics are the sources of satisfaction in a congregation. 2. The functional characteristics, if they are not in place, are the sources of dissatisfaction in a congregation. 3. There is no direct correlation between the two.

33 Fundamental Principles Congregations in which the level of satisfaction is higher than the level of dissatisfaction generally have a stronger sense of intentionality and well-being about their life in mission; they possess a sense of their own strength and a responsible hope that they can accomplish the mission to which God calls them.

34 Claim Your Strengths Three Strategic Questions 1. What are our present foundational strengths, given from God? 2. How can these strengths be expanded to serve God s mission more effectively? 3. Which foundational strengths can be added, that we might more successfully serve God s mission?

35 Claim Your Strengths Mission Program Relational Visitation Worship Groupings Leadership Participation expand strengthen add Access Visibility Parking Facilities Giving Functional

36 Strategic Mission Planning When we look for the strengths we wish we had we miss the strengths we really have

37 Strategic Mission Planning We look for the strengths we really have not the ones we wish we had

38 SMP Theology A Theology of Service not a Theology of Survival Theology of Mission not a Theology of Growth God invites us to Mission Growth not Church Growth

39 Motivation Understanding What Motivates People

40 Key Leaders Grassroots Pastor Unchurched Compassion Community Hope Challenge MOTIVATIONAL GAP Reasonability Commitment Growing Generous Givers 2003 Dr. Kennon Callahan

41 Key Leaders Grassroots Pastor Unchurched Compassion Community Hope Challenge Reasonability Commitment MOTIVATIONAL MATCH Growing Generous Givers 2003 Dr. Kennon Callahan

42 SMP Principle People go to the church closest to their hearts not their homes.

43 SMP Principle People are looking for three things when they come to our congregation: Help Hope Home

44 SMP Outcome Our goal is to help people find home and while at home be found by Christ through word and sacraments.

45 Introduction To Twelve Keys to an Effective Church by Dr. Kennon Callahan Abiding Savior Lutheran Church and School Strategic Mission Planning

46 Major Shifts In Culture Nomad Agrarian Industrial Technological Marathon Marathon Marathon Sprinter

47 Examples of Sprinter Approach One time Seasonal Short term 3-5 Long term 6+

48 Example of a Sprinter Approach One Time Seasonal Short Term Long Term Year Round

49 Strategic Mission Planning: Strategic People are looking for three things when they come to our congregation: Help Hope Home