Listening Sheet for Refocusing Your Resources

Listening Sheet for Refocusing Your Resources
Reggie McNeal
South Carolina Baptist Convention

 
When you go _____________ you will have to reallocate resources.
 
Prayer
  • Prayer walking
  • __________________ prayer walking
  • Prayer ___________________
  • Praying for the ___________________
  • Prayer _____________________
  • Adopting ___________________  _________________ for prayer
  • _____________________ prayer meetings
  • Change the ________________________
 
 
People development and deployment
 
The key: turning ________________ into ___________________
 
Staff and lay leadership
  • Community as _________   ________________________
  • ________________________ church wor
  • Staffing to the ______________________ : two ways
  • Limit number of ___________________roles
  • Each _________________ adopt a community ministry
  • Educate members on _________________________ needs
  • ____________________ for community responsibility
Congregational development
  • _________________ and _________________ community needs
  •  Re-script spiritual gifts ___________________________
  •  Develop life coaching that includes _________________ component
  •  Offer _______________________
  • Create _____________________ groups around community ministry
  • Adopt a _____________________
  • Deploy missionaries into ___________________________ complexes
  • Change the _________________________
 
Time/calendar
  • Hold staff _____________________ for community time
  • Begin church planning with the _______________________ calendar
  • Reduce the calendar of ______________________ events
  • Identify church members’ ______________ community involvement/points of ________________________
  • Change the _______________________
 
Facilities
  • Discover community ____________________ needs
  • Partner with _____________________________
  • Open your facilities up to other ________________________ and _________________________________
  • Make your facilities ____________________________-friendly
  • Consider ___________________ uses for community
  • Look for ___________________________ facilities
  • Change the ______________________________
Money
  • Increase your _______________________________ for community engagement
  • Add _____________________________ missions to your missions budget
  • Have a __________________ ________________________ for community ministry
  • Partner with _____________________________
  • Hire a grant writer
  • Develop a _____________________________partnership
  • Create a _________________________________ to endow community work
  • Create one or more ________________________________organizations
  • Partner with other ______________________________
  • Change the scorecard
 
Technology
  • Enhance your _______________________________
  • Consider ____________________________________________
  • Change the _____________________________________
 
Conclusion
 
What could we do?
 
What should we do?
 
What will we do?
 
Learning Guide
Select one of the areas of resources discussed in this module (prayer, etc.)
Which three ideas to refocus this resource will you implement? Who do you need to work with? By when will you accomplish this? Sketch this out below.

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Share with your cluster to get their ideas.