WHAT IS OIKONOMIA TEAMING RETREAT SERIES?
MISSION - Our mission is to effectively invigorate Whole Life Congregational Stewardship in faithful trust of God's gracious supply.
VISION - We envision gospel-focused and financially sustainable frontline churches and schools with ministry teams able to:
- Function as the emotional immune system for the congregation and school.
- Continually correct thinking and behavior, willing to learn for the larger congregation.
- Discern the difference between Adaptive Challenges and Technical Problems.
- Share a similar picture of their past, present, and future.
- Be willing to change the way they do things.
- Suspend their assumptions.
- Joyfully complement each other's efforts.
Ministry Mapping Inventory (MMI) Purpose
This assessment process will provide a visual picture of how well the church’s day-to-day process tasks reflect the stated vision of core ministry activities toward promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The culminating Ministry Map will place core ministries onto a visual map consisting of four quadrants:
The STAR: High Gospel Impact, High Financial Viability”
“The INTERVENTION SIGN: Low Gospel Impact, Low Financial Viability”
“The HEART: High Gospel Impact, Low Financial Viability”
“The MONEY TREE: Low Gospel Impact, High Financial Viability”
The purpose of assessing the Gospel impact and financial viability of ministries is to encourage alignment among ministry efforts and foster congregational learning opportunities in stewardship knowledge and practice.
This assessment will aim to identify perceived deficits in two stewardship categories: Gospel impact and financial health. It will provide a method of assessing a congregation’s current state of ministry and stewardship effectiveness with their future stated goals for vitality or needs for sustainability.
We expect the beneficial results of this project to be to:
- clarify mission and vision.
- align resources according to God’s mission and the ministry vision.
- provide a pathway for church and school partners to speak intelligently and honestly about congregational stewardship challenges.
- promote discussions on how to effectively address the congregational stewardship problems in a comprehensive and integrated manner.
- motivate church leaders and ministry teams to partner and collaborate on congregational stewardship decisions.
- identify strategic imperatives: that is which ministries to grow (“The Star”), to contain costs (“The Heart”), to increase impact (“The Money Tree”), and to renew, revitalize, redevelop, or give a redemptive death (“The Intervention Sign”); and
- encourage church and ministry team partnerships to adopt, as routine practice, the use of the Ministry Mapping Inventory in monitoring and reporting mission progress in each ministry.
In summary, the ultimate desired outcome will be improved participation in God’s mission to feed the sheep, reach the lost, and leave our Church and ministries in a better condition than what we have now.
MMI DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETING THE RESULTS
Findings and conclusions will be presented to Zion’s church leaders to help organize and interpret the data into achievable goals and recommendations for the congregation. The results of the Ministry Map will provide a visual picture of how our church’s ministries work together and how they may be best aligned with the church’s mission to seek and save the lost, while leaving a blessing for future generations. The Gospel Imperative Decision Table which will be provided, will help congregations make those hard decisions necessary for realignment, or to move resources elsewhere.
PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY EITHER ONLINE OR PHYSICAL COPY. PLEASE COMPLETE AND/OR RETURN IT TO CHURCH OFFICE, NO LATER THAN
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2024.
