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Advanced Strategic Planning: A 21st-Century Model for Church and Ministry Leaders is unavailable, but you can change that!

First published in 1999, Advanced Strategic Planning explains why planning is so important to carrying out the church’s mission. Now in its third edition, this classic resource offers: • A nine-step strategic thinking and acting model • Useful ideas for developing a ministry strategy • Diagrams to help illustrate concepts • A new section on spiritual formation The methods in this...

engage in capital funds projects to raise monies for a new facility or for adding on to an existing facility. Without knowing it, many of these churches are following what I refer to as a “Kevin Costner theology”—build it and they will come (the theme of the actor’s 1989 movie Field of Dreams). They do not realize that understanding and articulating strategic planning concepts is the critical first step to funding and building. Before taking out their wallets, people need to know who they are, where
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