Lebanon Road’s Four Goals for 2014

[NOTE: This week on the blog, we are sharing with you 5 posts about how Lebanon Road is starting 2014. We are excited about what this year holds, and we hope these articles encourage you.]

Like other congregations, Lebanon Road puts forward goals for each year. For 2014, however, the decision was made to reorganize the way we approach our goals for the year.

In past years, we would have 10-15 goals, covering a wide array of “church life.” Goals might include possible attendance numbers, emphasis on community involvement, changes to the physical facilities, or interest in a mission point.

In 2014, we still have very similar ideals, but we wanted to narrow down the goals to a much smaller number. We ended up with just four goals, under which we have set some ideas we want to emphasize. To re-enforce the goals, we made them into a small chart, and even passed out business cards to every person last Sunday with the chart on it.

Here is what they look like:

The idea for a circle is, in some ways, the most important part of our goals, because we want to emphasize that all of these goals actually work together and never end. As you can see, almost any specific thing we might want to emphasize fits well under these four, but it keeps us from trying to remember 10, 12, 14, or more items. Instead, we can all memorize four things, and always have them on our minds and in our prayers.

QUESTION: What are your thoughts on having such a simple series of goals for a congregation? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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