Strategic Planning 2003
Introduction & Background
Holy Word has grown from a church with 26 chartering members to one of over 500 today. This is a wonderful testament to the power of the Gospel, and it is a welcome blessing to have a large body of believers. However, with such a dramatic increase in size, there are new challenges to face. In order to address these challenges, the Board of Elders, the Church Council, and our called workers began a strategic planning initiative in September 2003. A short-term purpose of our planning is to solve some of our immediate budgetary difficulties, but we continue to focus on a long-term goal of making our ministry and outreach the best it can be as we seek to fulfill our Great Commission.
Outcome
The strategic planning process produced several documents. They are provided here.
- Counting Our Blessings: How the Lord continues to bless us at Holy Word
- Cottage Meeting presentation on November 10 & 11, 2003 (in PowerPoint format - 191K download)
- Voters Meeting presentation on December 7, 2003 (in PowerPoint format - 183K download)
- Budget Options: Proposed options for dealing with the budget situation
- Frequently Asked Questions about this process
- Minutes of the December 7, 2003 voters meeting