OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
First things first
How should an organization determine its priorities?
Without focus, an organization can become to broad and lose track of its vision and not fulfill its mission. This is why we engage in strategic initiatives: to help us accomplish our Mission and reach our preferred future.
"Where there is no vision, the people perish..."
OUR ASPIRATIONAL GOALS
Our hope is that ACOP would be a disciple-making movement that is:Â
- Characterized by health, resilient and reproducing churches focused on reaching the lost.
- Welcoming of the supernatural, empowering work of the Holy Spirit.
- Engaging every believer as ana active partner in the Great Commission.
- Affirming the ministry of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.
- Brimming with effective, fruitful and diverse leaders.
- Reflective of the Canadian mosaic of people groups.
- Pioneering, entrepreneurial and innovative.
Test Yourself
Answer
Talk it Through
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Objectives and Strategic Initiatives
Respond in paragraph format to the following prompt(s):
Which Strategic Initiative do you think is the most important in accomplishing ACOP's mission of "developing and releasing effective leaders and healthy churches who transform communities?" Why? The current objectives are listed below:- Leadership DevelopmentÂ
- To Engage and deploy next Generation Ministries
- Advocate for Church Vitality
- Global Expansion
- Church Multiplication
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27 Replies
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I think all 5 of these initiatives are important, but the one that stands out right now is church revitalization. Discipleship is always meant to be done in community, so the focus on church communities as a whole stands to create the most dramatic change in leadership development and missional-focused churches. Our world would look very different if the church fulfilled its Scriptural mandate of bringing the kingdom of God to our local communities. It would affect areas like poverty and addiction, broken families, loneliness and the need for belonging, disciple-making, evangelism, art and creativity, etc. Focusing on church revitalization widens the net and allows lay people to become the participants in God’s kingdom that we were created to be.
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I think right now, one of the most important things we need is to focus on our next generation and new upcoming leaders. Training and equipping them for the mission field and for pastoral ministry and leadership, etc. We need more laborers in the harvest, and we need to engage a generation that has more distrust of organizations and Churches but are passionate about doing good.
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I believe that visions and goals put on ground; it is important it is marched with strong positive strategies, and initiative and are constantly pursued in order to check whether the organization is still on track with the realities of kingdom purpose. I am happy to learn this positive initiative put in place in ACOP to grow positive leadership inline with God’s mandate to set upcoming leaders in rightful perspective.
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Leadership Development, because everything starts & ends with the leadership of an organization.
If we have healthy, thriving, Spirit led leaders starting and leading churches, we will inevitably create healthy churches that transform communities.
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