Leadership Community Empowerment LCE

This morning we brought to a close our first anniversary of using the Church Life

model by our friend, Dr. Wayne Lee. This model boils the hundreds of functions a church typically performs into 15 large categories. Those categories are then grouped into 4 quadrants and a core. The value of such a model is the ability to finally get a handle on assessing how the church is doing and also to begin to strategically plan where we need to work on strengthening the church. In essence, this model becomes a powerful tool for improving the health of the church.

We invited Dr. Lee to consult us on the health of our church last year. He helped us see where we were strong and also where we were weak. A plan was designed and we began a year long process to improve the health of our church. Today, we evaluated our progress and I invited all of the pastor's, ministry leaders, and the Life Group leaders to help evaluate the change. It was exciting for each ministry leader to look back and see how their plans progressed over the past year. It provided a great time of discussing not only individual ministries, but how related ministries could support one another. I saw the "smoke stack" mentality give way to a real sense of team synergy.

We closed the meeting with "homework." The ministry leaders are now working on their plans for 2010. We have 1 years worth of experience and we have completed 1 evaluation cycle. These assets along with the excellent comments from other ministry leaders leads me to believe our ministry leaders will sharpen their skills on next years plans. We will link a budget proposal to these plans and I foresee our ministries becoming far more healthy and effective in the days to come.

Thank the Lord for the gift of administration and leadership in the Body of Christ. I am so thankful for the leaders God has raised up here at Calvary Lighthouse!

1 Cor 12:27-28 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 28 And in the church God has appointed ... those with gifts of administration NIV