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Why You Must Replant Your Church in January 2019 (And How to Do It)

10 Steps To Replant Your Church In 2019

When I’m talking about “replanting” your church what I’m referring to is assuming the position of a church planter and imagining that you’ve been given a chance to plant a brand-new church in the same community you’re in now, in the same building, and with the same staff and people.

If you were given that opportunity, what would you do differently?

More important, how would you collect the information about what you specifically need to address and then put together an executable plan for making changes happen?

Every church will be different, but what I’ve listed below are 10 steps that we’ll be taking between now and January 2019 to “replant” the church I serve:

1. Make January 13, 2019 (the second Sunday in January every year) your church’s official “relaunch” date.

2. Order a Ministry Area Profile report from the Percept group. This will give you an exhaustive demographic analysis of the people who live in a 10-mile radius of your community.

3. Conduct a congregational email survey on surveymonkey.com to collect input on things that are going well, things you need to address, and the next staff position you should hire.

Here is the exact email and survey I will be sending out next week:

Hey CCV Family,

I REALLY need your help.

Our staff is entering a season of planning, and I would like to gather your input to help us better understand the things we need to build upon and address.

Will you please fill out the survey below?

It will only take two minutes.

Please click HERE to take the survey!

You’re awesome! Thank you!

Brian

4. Here’s the exact survey we’re sending to everyone in our database. Once you send your survey follow up it up two weeks later with a survey specific to each of your five core ministry areas (worship, kids, students, adults, operations/finance). Larger churches will have more focused ministry areas to survey. You’ll ask the exact same questions, but make them specific to each area (ex. “Please list  four things that are going really well in our children’s classes right now).

5. By July 1, select 10-12 volunteers from each ministry area and give them (a) the Percept study, (b) the results from the congregational study, and (c) the results from their department’s survey (ex. Kids’ volunteers get the kids’ survey). Give these volunteer leaders until August 1 to email you (meaning you, the Senior Pastor specifically) with a list of their top 10 issues that they think their department needs to address (with staff) in a planning session to improve and grow their ministry area.

6. Beginning September 10 to October 12, assemble your staff and the 10-12 volunteers from each department for concentrated behind the scenes planning sessions. Your goal is to come out of these planning sessions with two things in hand:

  • Five church-wide BHAG’s for 2019 (big hairy audacious goals)
  • Five departmental BHAG’s for each of your five core ministry areas (worship, kids, students, adults, operations/finance).