and determined that the church is worth saving, you must then decide where it should go. A vision is simply a description of hope for the future. It is a description of what you desire to accomplish. To be even more direct, a vision is not what you want but rather what God wants for your church. One way to understand vision is to see it as the intersection of the pastor’s leadership passion, the passion and gifts of the congregation, and the community needs (see fig. 5). Where