Timetable for MPVCC

I thought this might be a good reminder of where we've been, where we are, and where we're headed in 2010...

Timeline – Recent Past:
1. Springer Diagnostic Fall 2007
2. Caruso Coaching Contract 01/08
3. Internal Crisis 12/08
4. Intentional Interim Begins 01/09
5. Leader’s SWOT 04/09
6. Springer/Miles/Pittluck Onsite 06/09
7. Diagnostic shared with ET 08/09
8. Diagnostic shared with Leadership Community 09/09
9. Diagnostic shared at town-hall meeting 10/09

Specific Individual Next Steps:
1. Honestly consider the 3 questions…

• Will you face the real issues?
• Will you own up to your part of the problems?
• Will you do what is necessary to change?

2. Take Recommendation 1 very seriously. Read and re-read EHC. Ask a trusted, same sex friend to tell you what they think your core issue/s are. Make a big-picture list of what you can own and share it with trusted friend/s.

3. Make a personal commitment to live out Romans 12:18: “…As far as it depends on you, live [or be] at peace with everyone” and study and practice the 30 “one another’s.” (Click here to see a list at Bible Gateway.)

4. Download and start to develop your own personal vision statement. (Click here to download.)

5. Begin to seek the Lord about the future of MPVCC – first on your own; then with your spouse and age appropriate children if you are married and/or have children, or with a trusted friend; or friends.

6. Order and read The Shepherd Leader by Jim Van Yperen (from the MPVCC web bookstore ☺). This book will help us to identify the kind of leadership polity we are seeking to affirm as a church.

7. Order and read Making Peace: A Guide to Overcoming Church Conflict by Jim Van Yperen.

8. Integrate the term missional into your vocabulary and practice by reading the blog series @ godshack.blogspot.com (search word missional). Check out the books under the missional heading on the MPVCC online bookstore.

9. Seek to attend the to-be-determined corporate intercession times (approx 1 hour of corporate worship and intercession).

Proposed Timeline – Corporate Next Steps (per the Diagnostic Report and Recommendations):

1. Prioritize recommendations
2. The ET to begin functioning immediately as a Board to initiate the process of updating church by-laws through a review of policies & procedures, biblical leadership qualifications, grievance procedures, staff performance reviews, etc.
3. Begin monthly in-service training/equipping with Transition Team (which includes Board and Staff).
4. Continue to develop strong church-wide communication systems.
5. Initiate a season of church-wide prayer and fasting in early 2010.
6. Work with a core team and aim to launch a ministry to men by March or April.
   
7. Update By-Laws by April.
8. Convene a Sacred Assembly by (or before) May.
9. Develop pastoral application packet and establish and train a Search Team no latter than May.
10. Aim to set in a new lead pastor by (or before) the Fall.
11. Get to know each other, welcome new people, and have some fun along the way ☺