The Case
"It's only a twenty-minute drive," the board chairman said. Our building committee was crammed in a van for yet another Saturday safari in search of a new church location. With no ready options in our community, we wondered if our landlocked church should relocate to a community further away. Our church desperately needed more space.

Later, while on a retreat, our leadership agonized about ...

Topics:	Change, Core values, Direction, Discouragement, Mistakes, Planning, Transitions, Vision
Filters:	Church board, Discipleship, Elder, Management, Pastor, Pastoral care, Shepherd, Stewardship
Purpose:	Discipleship
References:	Exodus 13:21-22
Date Added:	July 31, 2007

"It's only a twenty-minute drive," the board chairman said. Our building committee was crammed in a van for yet another Saturday safari in search of a new church location. With no ready options in our community, we wondered if our landlocked church should relocate to a community further away. Our church desperately needed more space.

Later, while on a retreat, our leadership agonized about ...

Topics:	Goals, Master plan, Mission statement, Objectives, Planning, Strategy, Vision
Filters:	Church board, Church staff, Elder, Pastor, Pastoral care
Purpose:	Discipleship
References:	Exodus 13:21-22
Date Added:	July 31, 2007

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Needs-Based Evangelism: Becoming a Good Samaritan Churchby Robert D. Pierson Being a Good Samaritan church begins with leadership. It requires an absolute commitment to address the needs of people so that they can become disciples of Jesus Christ. But in order to compete with and appeal to unchurched people in today's secular ...

Topics:	Goals, Master plan, Mission statement, Objectives, Planning, Strategy, Vision
Filters:	Church board, Church staff, Elder, Pastor, Pastoral care
Purpose:	Discipleship
References:	Exodus 13:21-22, Ecclesiastes 3:1, 1 Peter 4:10
Date Added:	August 27, 2007