Broadus, as you may know, is about to go through a visioning process based on Peter Drucker's "5 Most Important Questions". It's a business model and some of that makes us a bit uncomfortable, but we'll work through it and make it work for a church setting whose goal is not just to bring in more customers to make more profit, but to be a community whose life together is a faithful witness to one another and our world.
So Peter Drucker crafted 5 Questions that an organization must ask. The first question is "What is our Mission?" Subquestions are: Whawt is the current mission? What are our challenges? What are our opportunities? Does the mission need to be restated?
These aren't always easy questions, even the first question. I don't know that we've ever really articulated a 'mission statement'. Even if we had, so many organizations' mission statements don't really reflect the REAL mission of the organization. Some do. Some don't.
But this is where we'll begin. With defining our mission as it best describes us now, taking that mission through our challenges and opportunities and then determining whether the mission needs to be restated. We hope to have addressed these questions by the end of February. If you have any thoughts, we'd love to hear them.
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