2. Mission Action Planning Required of us by the diocese Church leaders must attend training Each church must produce a MAP Each deanery must have a MAP

3. Mission Action Planning Strategic planning (a process) Review your situation Choose future priorities Make plans Act on the plans

4. Mission Action Planning Leadership Team Bill Goslin & Gill Grisedale (wardens) Dave Nelson (reader) John Hazelhurst (reader in training) Linda Lawrence (CLM in training) Ed & Jo Northey (curates) Ian Hook (vicar)

5. Mission Action Planning Leadership Team Meeting/Praying regularly Leading Your Church into Growth

6. Mission Action Planning Theology of Strategic Planning Exodus 18:17f ‘too heavy for you alone’ ‘you do what God called you to do’ ‘appoint a team’

7. Mission Action Planning Theology of Strategic Planning Deuteronomy 1:9f ‘chooses priorities’ ‘context is growth’ ‘consensus’ ‘Acts on the plan’

8. Mission Action Planning Theology of Strategic Planning Acts 6:1f ‘context is still growth’ ‘choosing priorities…. again’ ‘appoint a team…. again’ ‘consensus…. again’ ‘outcome is growth’

9. Mission Action Planning Theology of Strategic Planning 1Corinthians 3:1f ‘growth is not the same as health’ ‘Corinthian church side-tracked’ ‘leaders…. lead’ ‘leaders…. serve’ ‘God grows HIS church’

10. Mission Action Planning We do not see growth in attendance numbers as the main goal of a growth strategy. Rather it is the growth in mission related areas – for example in faith, in discipleship, in worship and in spreading God’s love into communities ‘ ‘

11. Mission Action Planning …at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:10-11 ‘ ‘