Vision Strategy
Evangelism Strategy: We will provide a spiritually appealing ministry with intentional evangelism where people will freely and wholeheartedly desire to connect with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for personal faith, spiritual renewal, and skillful living.
- Developing an inspiring and inclusive worship experience that provides refreshing spiritual renewal.
- Training every member in at least one method of evangelism
- Using intentional evangelistic efforts for connecting with the millennium generation of North Dallas (ie. forums, coffee topic discussions, events).
- Identifying and mobilizing for leadership those who exhibit the gift of evangelism.
- Regularly presenting and promoting events that target the felt needs of non-Christians and non-church.
- Providing community based outreach ministry that serves the real needs of the community.
Visitor Strategy: We will provide an engaging, welcoming community where non-Christians, non-churched, and under-churched communities are loved, welcomed, and made to feel safe and accepted in our church family.
- Creating information centers where visitors can learn more about the activities/events of our church.
- Providing safe forums for introducing visitors to dynamic Christian living.
- Creating event-driven/sermon tie-ins for our visitors.
- Creating visitor-friendly fellowships for first time visitors.
- Creating visitor-friendly outreach experiences with our church.
- Targeting visitors with special events of interest for spiritual discovery and practical living.
- Creating and maintaining a usable data base for follow-through and engagement of our visitors.
Discipleship Strategy: We will provide a spiritually enriching environment where new Christians can discover their spiritual calling and gift(s) and their pathway to spiritual maturity, commitment, and kingdom reproduction.
- Developing strategies for helping newcomers connect with God, daily.
- Developing user-friendly orientation models for helping newcomers assimilate into the life of the church and the kingdom overall.
- Helping all members (newcomers and current members) resolve personal issues and problems, moving into spiritual maturity.
- Offering Growth group instruction for moving new Christians and immature Christians toward maturity
- Mobilizing the congregation with gift and calling conferences to help all believers discover their God given purpose for ministry and service.
- Identifying and placing all members in their God-appointed ministries.
- Employing a network of congregational care and shepherding for the total church membership.
- Developing a “crisis care” ministry arm of the church.
Worship Strategy: We will provide an inspiring worship environment where all comers may connect with the presence of God, corporately and individually.
- Creating worship that includes all cultures and is relevant for the church community.
- Development of a diversity committee for implementing a diversity strategy.
- Creating inspiring, interactive worship experiences for all people who visit our church.
- Becoming a church of passionate corporate and small group prayer
- Using the latest in audio/visual tools and techniques for worship
- Expanding worship instructional experiences for inspiring worshippers toward a deeper faith, intimacy, and confidence in the Lord.
Leadership Strategy: We will provide an environment of leadership learning communities where leaders regularly experience personal renewal, training, mentoring, and modeling for effective ministry.
- Establishing a strong servant hood leadership community for spiritual renewal and vision casting.
- Training leaders to be Spirit-energized, biblically astute, technologically savvy, and community mobilizing.
- Identifying and Training future leaders on a annual basis.
- Establishing policy and procedure for ministries, event planning, and ministry leadership training.
- Developing a policy manual that empowers leaders to carry out their ministry task with the greatest amount of resources and the least amount of structural restrictions and needless effort.
- Establishing policy standards of leadership and excellence through the entire church.
Ministry Strategy: We will resound as one corporate voice of vital and dynamic ministry that impacts our city and bridges church and community to the glory of God.
- Deploying the congregation for hosting ministry in the surrounding community.
- Educate congregation on the vision and direction of affiliate ministries for involvement and support.
- Educating and broadening the church’s reach in world missions
- Training and mobilizing the people for new church plant ventures.
- Grant writing investigation for 501 (c) (3) facilities and ministry support for services such as technology and arts institute; financial wellness institute; marriage institute; transitional housing services, recreation services, cultural interaction services.
- Developing on-going strategies for investigating new opportunities for ministry.