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   Getting Started
   Personal Vitality
   Team
   Context
   Vision
   Strategy

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Vision

This session introduces the key templates to use for a ministry to articulate its values, mission, and vision.  Strategy, the fourth component of this flow is addressed in the Section on Strategy that begins with Session Nineteen.

The four sessions on the Section on Vision are as follows:

Vision Overview

This session introduces a template with key questions to use as a ministry articulates its values, mission, and vision.

Congregational Values

Talks about the importance of core values and gives tools on how to discover and share them.

Mission and Vision

Shares a Vision Discernment Process that enables a ministry to understand and build on the various components that go into discerning a vision.

Sustaining the Vision

Sharing the vision is an ongoing process of listening and responding.  This session outlines key strategies for keeping the vision alive.

Below are the tools to use as you are creating a new team.

  1. Vision Overview (Download PDF)
  2. Congregational Values (Download PDF)
  3. Mission and Vision (Download PDF)
  4. Sustaining the Vision (Download PDF)