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Course
Setting Direction: The Role of Planning in Your Church
~18 Hours
Every pastor agrees that the church should be led by the Spirit, but what does it look like to actually implement the plan of God for your church? In Setting Direction: The Role of Planning in Your Church, you will discover practical ways to create effective plans, set goals, and cast a vision in a biblical way.
2 instructors
About This Course
Planning can be a complex and daunting topic. This course makes the practice of planning more accessible to pastors and other ministry leaders. By the end of the course, you will be better prepared to engage in a planning process. You will develop an understanding of what Scripture says about planning and how planning looks different in a ministry setting than in a business. Led by Mike Bonem, executive pastor, business leader, and author of five books on ministry leadership, this course will offer a practical guide for church planning and organizing. By the end, you will be ready to partner with key leaders in your congregation to develop plans to move your church toward God’s preferred future.
This is a part of the Business of Ministry Certificate.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop a biblically based perspective on planning
- Define key terms and explain concepts related to planning
- Describe the four main stages of the planning process and identify potential obstacles in each
- Design a new multi-year planning process for your church
Created in partnership with the Church Leadership Institute, which is part of the De Pree Center, and FULLER Equip.
- Administration
- Ministry Admin Training
- Professional Training
Introduction
1. Getting Started
2. What Is Planning?
To Plan or Not to Plan
3. What Does the Bible Say?
4. Inherent Tension Around Planning
5. The Benefits of Planning
Models of Planning/How to Plan
6. Concepts of Planning
7. A Simple Framework: Part A—Preparation
8. A Simple Framework: Part B—The Planning Process
9. Building Support for the Plan
10. Common Pitfalls to Avoid
Execution
11. Implementation
12. When Plans Fail
13. Communication
14. Resistance
Conclusion
15. Putting It All Together
16. Next Steps
Your Instructor
Mike Bonem
Executive Pastor, Business Leader, Author
Mike Bonem is a consultant, coach, author, speaker, husband, and father. He offers a unique mix of world-class consulting and executive leadership experience to help churches, ministries, and their leaders turn vision into results. Mike works with congregations, denominational bodies, and faith-based non-profits on vision discernment, strategy implementation, and organizational design. He also coaches ministry leaders, helping them grow their capacity. He has developed and taught seminars for the Willow Creek Association, The Purpose-Driven Church (Saddleback Church), Christian Leadership Alliance, and Leadership Network. Mike served over 10 years as an executive pastor. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, was a senior consultant with McKinsey & Company, and held executive leadership roles in two businesses. He is the author or co-author of five books on ministry leadership, including his most recent, The Art of Leading Change: Ten Perspectives on the Messiness of Ministry.
CLI
The Church Leadership Institute (CLI) is a consulting and coaching group, a laboratory of church leadership, and the “Harvard Business Review” of the church. While there are a number of good resources and consulting groups at work in the larger church today, the De Pree Center Church Leadership Institute brings four distinct aspects to this work: Convene: Through our alumni and partner organizations, we bring the diverse church together across denominational and cultural lines to address the largest questions and challenges for the widest possible learning. “We talk to people who don’t talk to each other.” Research: Nested in a graduate school, our resources and experiences are grounded and will continually be grounded in research. Ongoing research will enable us to continually learn and offer those learnings to the larger church. Reach: As a non-profit institution with a technology platform and international reach, we can raise money and serve churches that could never afford the expertise of consultant agencies and pour the money from our consulting services back into other congregations, thus strengthening the larger body of Christ Formation: As an institution of formational education, our experience and expertise is on the formation of the inner life, character, resilience, and wisdom necessary for leadership—both individuals and congregations as a whole.
