Our Strategic Plan
Foster Inclusive Community
Goal: To bring lesser serviced groups/individuals into intentional community (new believers, newcomers, fringe members, other cultures)
Objectives:
- Identify specific members of said groups
- Identify “connection points” involving programming and people (targeted)
Goal: Foster relationship between age groups
Objectives:
- Utilize Home Groups as starting point for intergenerational relationships
- Use Sunday morning as an example of intergenerational community
Goal: To become an integral member of the Richie/Hazeldean community
Objectives:
- Encourage individual connections within the community
- Better physical identification of Calvary’s building as a church
Strengthening Expressions of Belief
Goal: To engage with our communities wherever we live
Objectives:
- Run events which reach outside of Calvary
- Create opportunities to dialogue and engage with Ritchie and Hazeldean
- To motivate Calvary’s congregation to testify to the transformative power of the gospel
Goal: To recognize all generations are united in the image of Christ
Objectives:
- Provide opportunities for intergenerational engagement within our services, ministries and social events
- Prioritize a model of discipleship
Goal: To expand our understanding of corporate worship
Objectives:
- Increase our focus on prayer
- Include expressions of worship beyond music
- Develop a greater focus on biblical principles in our teaching ministry
Affirming and Confirming Our Beliefs
Goal: To increase the biblical literacy of our congregation in order to create a culture of grace and truth in our communities and growing relationship with Jesus
Objectives:
- To develop a framework for the pursuit of and desire for Biblical truth
- To encourage and develop interest in the importance of biblical truth (apologetics)
Goal: To review our relationship with our governance documents and our denominational affiliations
Objectives:
- To form a representative committee to review Calvary’s bylaws, constitution including the Doctrinal Statement and Statement of Membership
- To engage the church body in a review of our current affiliations, specifically The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches
Unified and Empowered Staff
Goal: To foster clarity of staff roles and ministry needs within the dynamic environment of Calvary
Objectives:
- Staff to initiate regular discussions (formal and informal) and feedback with and from ministry leaders as to the changing needs of our communities
- Evaluation process that measures activities that are realistic (skills, achievable) and relevant to our shared purpose, mission and vision
- Review and amend as needed, position descriptions annually within the staff team to better reflect the ministry needs of Calvary
Goal: To effectively collaborate as a staff team in meeting our church vision and mission
Objectives:
- Regularly discuss, identify and align ministry priorities in a staff meeting environment
- Look for ways to foster greater collaboration within the staff team
- Encourage staff to pursue their gifts and passions through:
- Experimentation
- Teamwork
Clarify Role and Direction of the Leadership Team
Goal: Improve communication between leadership team and staff
Objectives:
- Initiate intentional one on one conversation with staff
- Express appreciation to staff as a leadership team
- Have planned shared events with staff
- Regular all staff/LT meetings
- Create explicit bullet points for staff after LT meeting
Goal: Clarify vision and values of ministries (do this with staff input)
Objectives:
- Have ministry leaders collaborate with staff to define vision & value for each ministry, then present this to the Leadership Team for review
- Bylaw review & revision
- Define roles on Leadership Team
- Update governance structure & policy
- Consistent mentorship of leaders
- Develop policy
- Follow up with staff responsible
Optimize Bricks and Mortar Resources
Goal: To increase capacity
Objectives:
- Short term, low impact renovations at current building – increase capacity by 50- 100
- Identify real-world strategy for church plant/multi-site
- Develop leadership necessary to support another site
Goal: Replace aging infrastructure (physical assets)
Objectives:
- Identify needs & those with expertise to address
- Fund initiatives
Goal: Examine the use of facility in light of community focus
Objectives:
- Identify a group of people passionate about community engagement in Ritchie/Hazeldean (research needs & propose initiatives)
- Continually looking for opportunities to invite/impact/engage our community using the building