Drawing on extensive consulting experience with congregations, the authors provide a step-by-step guide to congregational planning that grounds strategic planning techniques in a process of spiritual discernment. The result: members will own the vision and be eager to participate in the congregation's calling, life, and ministry. You and your planning committee learn the theory behind the techniques, along with receiving help for addressing specific situations.
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"It is package in a user-friendly style geared for the pastor, members, and lay leaders to do together." -- Jill Hudson, Executive Director, Presbytery of Whitewater Valley
"This is a rare book--combining practical tools for parish planning with equally practical help for the spiritual dimension ...." -- Loren Mead, founding president, The Alban Institute
"This is a rare book--combining practical tools for parish planning with equally practical help for the spiritual dimension ...." -- Loren Mead, founding president, The Alban Institute
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Roy M. Oswald is a senior consultant with the Alban Institute. A popular teacher and author, his other Alban publication include Clergy Self-Care, The Inviting Church, Personality Type and Religious Leadership, and Beginning Ministry Together.
The Rev. Dr. Bob Friedrich is president of the Ekklesia Institute. His broad personal, interim, and business experience helps him to serve congregations of many sizes and denominations in the areas of discernment, conflict management, stewardship, leadership development, and strategic planning.
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An excellent planning book for any venue,
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This review is from: Discerning Your Congregation's Future: A Strategic and Spiritual Approach (Paperback)
Oswald and Friedrich have given us a wonderful source book for doing congregational planning. But in addition, they have given strategic planning consultants and facilitators in many fields a concept that opens new horizons in strategic planning. The idea of discerning, rather than planning, future direction says that there is a way we ought to go and our job is to find it. This concept, when coupled with systems thinking and organizational learning (see for example Senge, _The Fifth Discipline_), provides a way of reframing the strategic planning process. The exercises, while generally unsuited to the board room, can be adapted to that environment with a little imagination, once the planning consultant creates a safe place for those invovled in planning to access the part of their mind capable of discernment.
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A Prescription For Growth,
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This review is from: Discerning Your Congregation's Future: A Strategic and Spiritual Approach (Paperback)
This book lays out a most indepth, step-by-step guide to uncovering what God has in store for your church. If followed in it's entirety without skipping any of the process, it will be an experience of spiritual growth for your congregation as well as a tool for understanding the direction that Christ is moving your church. It is an easy to read, challenging prescription for growth.
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Excellent guide to church planning,
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Oswald has a process that is focused on the core of church life and beliefs to come up with a plan for how to move forward versus standing still.
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