Managing Projects for Ministry

32 Manag i ng Pro j ec t s for Mi n i s t r y

3. How should this constraint affect our efforts to manage projects?

a. From the beginning, you will have to become acutely aware of what your limits are in terms of resources for each project .

b. Projects differ dramatically in the amount of resources available to accomplish their goals and aims.

c. Stakeholders and others who authorize projects are usually those who also determine the use of funds (i.e., the initiating parties are typically those who set the limits in how much can be spent and utilized to accomplish the project).

d. Without the proper amount of resources, some projects cannot be accomplished: To underbid a project is to determine certain disaster .

e. Having no plan to manage your resources carefully during the course of a project is to invite non-delivery of the goods we purposed for our project.

4. The bottom line: Project management is stewardship of precious, scarce, and few resources to maximize impact in light of our urgent mission.

a. Rom. 13.11-12 – 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. [12] The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.