New pastor...new plan: strategic planning for health and growth

William Alan Robinson

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New pastor...new plan: strategic planning for health and growth

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William Alan Robinson. New Pastor...new Plan: Strategic Planning for Health and Growth. Asbury Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/dfe115dc-8aa5-4c84-b0c6-ff87648ed8dd.

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W. A. Robinson. New pastor...new plan: strategic planning for health and growth. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/dfe115dc-8aa5-4c84-b0c6-ff87648ed8dd

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William Alan Robinson. New Pastor...new Plan: Strategic Planning for Health and Growth. Asbury Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/dfe115dc-8aa5-4c84-b0c6-ff87648ed8dd.

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William Alan Robinson

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I was installed as the new senior pastor of Carlisle Brethren in Christ Church in June 1999. Prior to my arrival, the church leadership had decided to embark upon a period of strategic planning in order to evaluate its ministries and set future direction. The church leadership and I decided to work together in a collaborative strategic planning process, which we termed ReVision, to improve church health and stimulate church growth. We decided to use the approach to church life and health called Natural Church Development (NCD) as the primary model and description of church health. The project at Carlisle Brethren in Christ Church involved the administration of the NCD survey on three occasions--before my arrival as the new senior pastor and the commencement of the strategic planning process, three months after my arrival and still before the formal commencement of the strategic planning process, and eighteen months after my arrival, which was fifteen months into the strategic planning process. Following the release of the results of the third NCD survey, the members of the ReVision Taskforce were given a survey containing four open-ended questions intended to allow them to reflect on the planning process and the congregation's health changes. The quantitative data from the NCD surveys and the qualitative data from the final survey led to the conclusion that the arrival of a new senior pastor and the strategic planning process had been influential in improving the congregation's health and stimulating church growth.

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