Healthy Kingdom Church
Strategic Plan 2006
The Purpose of East Newnan Baptist Church is:
To glorify God
To love others
To equip people to grow God's Kingdom
The Vision of East Newnan Baptist Church is:
To Connect People to Christ
Our Main Thing Statement is:
"Reflecting Christ"
Our Guiding Scripture is:
Philippians 4:13
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." NKJ
Our Theological Core Values are:
The Bible for Preaching and Teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Prayer for Seeking the Lord's Presence, Guidance, Wisdom, Will and Resources
Worship and Fellowship to express our love for God, and each Other
Missions and Evangelism Locally, Nationally, and Internationally
Stewardship through Time, Talents, Tithes and Other Offerings
Our Operational Core Values are:
Integrity inspires Godly Leadership and Personal Accountability
Prayer and Worship are Vital to Fulfilling God's Purpose for Our Church
Commitment Motivates Our Faithfulness to God's Kingdom
Evangelism and Outreach are Essential for Growing God's Kingdom
Our Priorities are:
Develop a strategy to reach our community through evangelism and outreach
Develop a strategy to help our church be on mission for Christ; become an Acts 1:8 church
Develop a strategy to strengthen and enlarge Bible study and training for our church and community
Develop a strategy to reach our community through evangelism and outreach.
Goals
1. Touch the lives of 2000 people per year in our community using special events through September 2009.
A. Each ministry of the church will have at least one special event per year for the next three years.
1. Ministries are defined as but not limited to: Children's, Youth, Brotherhood, WMU, Young at Heart, and Music.
2. Each ministry director is responsible for the event, maintaining a record of attendance, and reporting this number to the church office at the end of each quarter.
B. Increase participation in our Upward Soccer program each year by 33% for the next three years.
1. All promotions and execution will be the responsibility of the Upward Soccer Directors.
2. A publicity campaign will begin four months prior to player registration.
a. Continue distribution of Upward brochure through the local schools.
b. Send website announcements and emails to church members and the previous year's participants.
c. Show Upward promotional spots during our television broadcast of our Sunday morning worship service.
d. Publicize newspaper advertisements in the local paper one month prior to registration.
2. Equip 20% of our active membership to reach people for Christ by September of 2009.
A. Beginning in 2007, offer "Faith Training" twice/year for the next three years under the direction of the Minister of Education.
B. Beginning in 2007, have a lesson on evangelism in Sunday School each quarter for the next three years under the direction of the Sunday School Director.
C. Have an evangelism experience testimony during our Sunday morning worship service once per month on the second Sunday as scheduled by our Minister of Education and Sunday School Director.
D. Pastor will teach the curriculum "59 Minute Evangelism Training" (59 MET) in the months of March and September during our Sunday night worship service for the next three years.
3. We will increase our publicity efforts each year for the next three years.
A. Produce a five minute DVD explaining the mission, purpose, and ministries of our church.
Oversight will be the responsibility of the Media and Publicity Teams.
Raise funds for production of DVD by September of 2007.
Media and Publicity Teams will hire a production company to shoot DVD using our members and staff by December 2007.
Distribute 3,000 DVD's per year for 2008 and 2009.
B. Develop twelve ministry informational spots for our television ministry to air during our worship service broadcast each month for the next three year.
Oversight will be the responsibility of the Media and Publicity Teams.
A schedule for writing, taping, and airing will be determined by the Media and Publicity Teams and given to each committee at the team's discretion.
Each month a different ministry will be highlighted during the broadcast time.
C. Develop and distribute 6,000 brochures per year explaining the ministries of our church to hotels, apartment buildings, welcome center, and surrounding neighborhoods. The Publicity Team will produce and be responsible for the creation and distribution of the brochure.
D. Increase hits to our website by 20% each year for the next three year by establishing a website team to determine church website needs by March 2007.
Develop a strategy to help our church be on mission for Christ: become an Acts 1:8 church.
Goals
1. Increase the number of mission educational events* by 25% each year through October of 2009.
A. Have a missions moment each Sunday during our worship services.
1. The following ministries will be responsible for supplying the 4 min. or less mission moment for both the 9:30 and 11:00am Sunday morning worship services each quarter:
Sunday School x 3 weeks
Youth Ministry x 1 week
WMU x 6 weeks
Brotherhood x 1 week
Mission Action Team x 2 weeks
2. The Mission Action Team and WMU will be responsible for developing a yearly calendar that will determine when each ministry area is expected to report each quarter.
3. The purpose is to communicate to the church body what ministry opportunities, prayer needs, and mission testimonies there are within our church, community, nation, and world.
B. Have a missions fair to coincide with Annie Armstrong each year.
1. The fair will be organized by the WMU and the Mission Action Team by enlisting: current missions education groups from our church, local community agencies (Community Welcome House, DEFACS, Red Cross, Angel House....), Sunday School classes involved in missions, GBC resources for missions ( Dental trailer, Disaster Relief....) and Cooperative Program representative.
2. The purpose is to highlight current missions efforts of the church and to provide resources and contacts for further local missions efforts.
C. Start two new mission education groups each year for the next three years.
1. Brotherhood and WMU will organize, staff, and promote new missions education groups.
2. The groups that can be started are numerous and left to the discretion of the organizers. Some that maybe included are: R.A.'S, G.A.'S, Acteens, Adults on Mission.
3. The purpose is to start groups whose sole function is to educate, pray about, and do local, national, and International missions.
2. Increase budgeted missions giving to 12% of total church budget and increase designated missions giving 10% by October 2009.
A. The total missions budgeted amount will increase to 10% for 2007, 11% for 2008, and 12% in 2009 of the total church budget (If the total church budget was $500,000.00, the missions budget would be $50,000.00 for 2007).
1. The Finance Committee will be responsible for executing this action plan.
2. The plan is easily tracked by evidence of the yearly budgeted amount.
B. There will be two major fundraisers each year to aide in increasing designated giving. The Mission Action Team will be responsible for the planning, promoting, recruiting, and direction of this project.
C. There will be a method developed to increase individual sponsorships for mission trip
participants also helping to increase designated missions giving. The Mission Action Team will
be responsible for the planning, promoting, recruiting, and direction of this project.
3. Increase mission participation** to 320 by October 2009 through local, national and international efforts.
A. Every Sunday School class will support a local mission project quarterly.
1. The Sunday School Director will be responsible for encouraging and education teacher to lead their class in projects.
2. Each teacher is responsible for providing leadership and encouragement to their class in project participation.
3. A form to record class participation will be included in the Sunday School folder. After each project the teacher is to fill the form out and return to the Sunday School Director.
4. Projects can vary greatly and are left up to the discretion of the teacher. Some may include: Welcome House, Angel House, or helping the homebound.... it really is left up to the class.
5. The purpose is to provide an opportunity to class members to use their talents for God's glory in our community.
B. There will be at least one church wide national mission project each year.
1. The Mission Action Team will be responsible for the planning, promotion, recruiting, training, and direction of the project.
2. The Mission Action Team is also responsible for reporting participation surrounding the project.
C. There will be at least one church wide international mission project each year.
1. The Mission Action Team will be responsible for the planning, promotion, recruiting, training, and direction of the project.
2. The mission action team is also responsible for reporting participation surrounding the project.
* Educational Event-
Current estimated events:
WOM 28 meetings
Mission Friends 48 meetings
Children in Action 48 meetings
Mission reports to church 6 reports
Youth on Mission moments 20 meetings
Fundraisers for missions 3
Sermons with mission focus 10 sermons
SBC special offering emphasis 4
Special collections 7
VBS 5 meetings
Total estimated educational events for 2005-
** Missions participation -
Develop a strategy to strengthen and enlarge Bible study and training for our church and community.
Goals
1. Begin construction of a multipurpose building by June 2008 to increase the teaching and reaching
capacity of East Newnan Baptist Church (ENBC).
A. Staff will immediately organize the creation of a framed architectural sketch,
or similar type of ren-
dering, of what God's property on Gordon Road can be. The image will be displayed prominently in the foyer by December 2006.
B. When ENBC's debt is below one million dollars construction will begin.
In order to reduce debt, the capital fundraising team will ask church members who
made a three-
The Capital Fund Raising Team will ask members who have joined since the fundraising campaign's inception to consider committing to the debt reduction campaign.
C. The treasurer will communicate the current debt level quarterly in the business conference.
When this debt reaches $1.1 million, the Nominating Committee will select members for a special purpose building team.
This new team will then decide church facility needs and work with an architect to develop plans to accommodate those needs as feasible.
When debt drops below the million-
2. Initiate six or more short-
study.)
A. The Minister of Education will form a closed group team to determine target groups
(men, parents...) within the church and surrounding community that need to be reached.
Annually, the team will develop a schedule to accommodate at least two studies in
the remainder of the 2006-
This team will ask other church ministry teams like Youth, Women on Mission, and Brotherhood to sponsor selected studies for appropriate target groups.
The team will work with the sponsoring group and the publicity committee to advertise and invite people within the target groups to join the study.
Advertisement may be done through the association to other churches, by personal invitations, and advertising in various media formats.
B. A standardized form created by the closed group team will be distributed and collected in the final
session of each study.
The team and the group facilitator will use this follow up to evaluate the study
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Based upon these results, the closed group team will make adjustments to the schedule accordingly.
3. Create a policy for organizational structure in all open groups to facilitate spiritual growth and
reach new people no later than September 2007.
(An open group is defined as groups like Sunday School, Children's Ministry, or Youth Ministry which
allow people to join in at any time with weekly lessons that can stand alone. Organizational structure is
defined as: needed leadership components, guidelines under which an open group can operate, and class composition and size.)
A. Open group teachers must adhere to developed requirements in order to teach in a ministry area.
In January 2007, the Sunday School Director will conduct a required Sunday School teachers meeting to cover Sunday School's purpose.
By March 2007, directors of each open group area (Sunday School, Youth Ministry, Children's Ministry, etc.) will communicate appropriate class structure recommended by the Georgia Baptist Convention (GBC) and the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to the leaders within their areas via departmental meetings. In those meetings, the directors will also provide guidelines to all teachers regarding class structure and other key leadership areas.
The director and their oversight staff member will assemble these leadership guidelines jointly.
These guidelines will become the required policy by September 2007 and implemented
in the 2008-
Area directors are responsible for holding their workers accountable.
B. Directors of open group areas will continually follow-
Participation in a minimum of one leadership training event annually will be required for all open group leaders.
Relevant training will be offered every year by the church, Western Baptist Association, GBC, SBC, or other appropriate organizations.
Directors of each area will conduct training at least once a year in ENBC facilities.
Directors will track leadership participation.
East Newnan Baptist Church * 577 East Gordon Rd * Newnan, GA 30263 * 770-