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GOVERNANCE & MINISTRY
by Dan Hotchkiss
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What Kind of Planning Should We Do?
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Jeff Golden via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)) by Dan Hotchkiss It is not always easy to say what kind of planning a congregation needs to do at a specific moment. Nonetheless, dogmas abound. Some people think every congregation has to do a big, ginormous long-range, planning process every five or ten years. Only by taking a fresh, comprehensive look at everything and translating all of it into a thick report can a congregation have a serious sense of direction. An opposing camp says “strategic planning” is an old-hat, GI-generation dinosaur. In our time, it’s futile to predict the future. Progress comes only by infusing the whole system with an agile, nimble, trial-and-error culture. The anti-planning movement even has a mocking coffee mug: “We have a strategic plan—it’s called doing things.” I sympathize with both extremes, so I can relate when puzzled lay and clergy leaders call and say, “We think it’s
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