Managing Projects for Ministry

Session 1: Defining the Nature of Project Management

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2. Project management requires a fundamental commitment to a holistic strategy of ministry, which thinks about individual projects as they relate to all the various ministry parts as they operate systematically.

3. Project management assumes a solid leadership core which establishes and manages a portfolio of projects which represent our prioritized, most significant potential opportunities to leverage our resources for the sake of our entire enterprise.

II. Establishing a Process for Holistic Ministry Stewardship

A. Set your meeting schedule for the upcoming year (calendar or fiscal).

B. Seek God’s guidance on his leadings for the upcoming year.

C. Rehearse your identity and mission.

1. Review your key documents, purposes, and commitments to identify the following:

a. Our purpose and identity

b. Our key ministry areas (worship, witness, learning, mission, justice, service)

c. Our central commitments (to God in Christ, to Scripture, to the Church, to the world)