Managing Projects for Ministry

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II. Case Studies of Project Management

A. The Capstone Curriculum: the multi-year, massive project

1. Its purpose and process: leadership development curriculum

2. Its problems and pains: underfunded, changing schedule, Herculean amount of work

3. Its product and potential: a remarkable magnum opus

B. World Impact’s Urban Church Plant School, Denver Colorado, 2002: the handling-disaster-in-the-Rockies- spontaneously project

1. Its purpose and process: training urban missionaries in the mountains

2. Its problems and pains: forest fires and change of venue to Denver

3. Its product and potential: remarkable feat of spontaneous flexible planning

C. TUMI graduation: the single-event, “normal-sized” project

1. Its purpose and process: to honor our graduates

2. Its problems and pains: handling factors not directly under your control