Oak Leaf Church at a Glance
Five years ago, I put together a prospectus for Oak Leaf Church (PDF of original document) – a document that described the kind of church we were starting – a sort of spiritual business plan. This document helped answer the questions of people praying about jumping in or churches thinking about financially supporting us. A few things have changed, but our core mission has remained the same.
With new staff, new people, and new volunteers, we thought it was a good thing to create a similar document to just let everyone know who we are, what we’re doing, how we do it and where we’re going. The result was a four-page document called “Oak Leaf Church at a Glance.” It’s a quick overview of our whole church.
If you’re interested, you can download a PDF of Oak Leaf Church at a Glance.
what you need to do is to teach other church planters (and pastors) how to put strategy and bones to statements. i see that as a major problem. lots of guys have pretty prospectuses (prospecti?) but couldn’t figure out what to do with it if they tried. good job!
Thanks Jim. I do agree that this is a big problem. Creating strategy and implementing strategy are two very different things.
thanks for this post…I was actually going to email you today to see if you had the original copy of your start up doc!
Excellent. Proud to be part of the journey!
Thanks for sharing this. I like how you included your children, student, and adult teaching philosophy in there. And of course, I like that it was Orange strategy, which I’m a big fan of.
I saw your tweet the other day about Baltimore. My wife and I have talked about the possibility of planting a church here for a while, but still have a little ways to go to be ready. This is my hometown and I want nothing more than for a bunch of new churches and refocused existing churches to work together to reach this city.