Clarify Your
Church’s Calling
Engagement Group empowers churches to bring clarity, unity, alignment, and actionable purpose to their mission, vision, values, and pathway so that you can start aligning church mission with outreach.
Where Many Churches Get Stuck
Bridging the gap between your church’s calling and current reality can feel like a frustrating cycle of uncertainty.
Congregations are disengaging, and leaders often lack the tools to re-energize their communities. It’s difficult to rekindle passion and inspire collective momentum when the team and congregation aren’t unified around common goals. Without a well-defined calling, it can feel like you’re going through the motions of ministry instead of operating with defined purpose.
Without a church pathway discipleship model, members are left wondering how to grow in their faith or contribute to the church’s mission—resulting in unmet spiritual needs and unfulfilled potential. These struggles can leave leaders feeling isolated, exhausted, and unsure of their next steps. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Nothing empowers and prepares church leadership for the challenges it will face like a clear sense of calling. Paul had this. In Acts 23:11, God tells Paul that he will testify of Christ in Rome, just as he had done in Jerusalem. It was this directive that bolstered Paul’s confidence as he boldly appealed to higher courts (Acts 24-26), boarded a ship, took verbal command of a vessel as a prisoner (Acts 27), endured shipwreck, shook off a snake attack (Acts 28), made the most out of an unforeseen pit stop on Malta, and ultimately landed at the place where God called him to go. Paul shows us that God’s direction provides hope, conviction, and a peace-giving sense of purpose that we can cling to in every season of church leadership.
We understand the gravity of rallying your team and congregation behind a clear and impactful vision for sustainable, mission-driven church growth. There is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to creating a church mission, developing church pathways, and identifying ministry core values. called to expand the Kingdom in a unique way. Our strategic ministry planning process dives deep into insights unique to your church in order to clarify your unique calling.
How We Help You
We partner with you to help you rediscover your unique, God-given calling and develop a strategic blueprint for sustainable ministry growth aligned with the intricacies of your church and community.
The Four Components of Calling are:
Mission
Your church’s unique purpose or “Why?”
Vision
A clear visual narrative that defines “How” you will accomplish the mission
Values
Impactful statements that embody “What” binds you together as a church
Pathway
A clear pathway for spiritual growth that illuminates “What’s Next”
Clarifying your Church’s Unique Calling
Mission • Vision • Values • Pathway
We begin by defining the church’s core or “anchor” audience and those the church is called to pursue—the lost sheep in the community, also referred to as the “target audience.” We then partner with you to clarify the visionary objectives required to rally the congregation, attract the visitor, and ignite sustainable impact.
Community + Congregation Analysis
A detailed demographic and psychographic analysis of of the community, its trends, the church’s fit in it, and understanding anchor and target audiences.
Clarified Calling Development & Strategy
A holy retreat and writing initiative centered around the calibration of the organization’s Mission, Vision, Values, and Pathway, and what it will require to roll it out in a new season and endure beyond long term.
Onboarding Pathway Class Playbook and Curriculum Development
In collaboration with your team, we develop a playbook for your onboarding class, curriculum, and materials for those new to the church.
Stages of Change
A blueprint of the change-management process, outlining practical steps that produce momentum.
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