Managing Projects for Ministry

Session 2: The Constraints and Benefits of Project Management 29

a. From the beginning, you must become aware of the elements of time and how they will impact your project.

b. Project management is thinking in terms of phases and sequences: Project efforts are ordered and coordinated activities in light of the phases of the project.

c. Allowing the proper amount of time for each phase is critical: from conceiving an idea, establishing a plan, getting ready for execution, to performing the task, and wrapping it up.

d. Adjustment, flexibility, and sensitivity to time demands constant feedback, monitoring, and steering (be prepared to make adjustments in all you do in project management strategy).

4. The bottom line: Project management takes advantage of every opportunity in light of the need to buy up every moment of time.

a. Eccles. 9.10 – Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

b. Rom. 13.11 – Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

c. Gal. 6.10 – So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.