Planning Retreat
Every year our staff does two retreats. We do a play and pray retreat in the summer. And we do a planning retreat in the fall.
We'll spend the next two days in Baltimore's inner harbor. Love hanging out there. Great place to reflect about the past year and dream about the next year. We'll spend lots of time doing personal planning and team planning. The goal is to walk away with a strategy for everything we do. We'll come up with our staffing strategy, sermon strategy, marketing strategy, launch strategy and discipleship strategy to name a few.
That sounds more glamorous than it is. It's not like everything goes according to plan. But it gives us a rough draft for 2009.
We'll spend the next two days in Baltimore's inner harbor. Love hanging out there. Great place to reflect about the past year and dream about the next year. We'll spend lots of time doing personal planning and team planning. The goal is to walk away with a strategy for everything we do. We'll come up with our staffing strategy, sermon strategy, marketing strategy, launch strategy and discipleship strategy to name a few.
That sounds more glamorous than it is. It's not like everything goes according to plan. But it gives us a rough draft for 2009.
6 Comments:
I wish that our team did these. it would be so good for us.
Mark,
How many different strategies do you work with?
Don Schultheis
pdnazzz.blogspot.com
woohoo! baltimore!
I like your blog - some very interesting stuff. And I appreciate what you're doing for moving people toward Jesus.
As I looked through, though, I didn't see anything about helping the Body of Christ beyond this US of A. So I'm just being a little prod in that direction.
-Paul Merrill for Wycliffe's The Seed Company
http://www.theseedcompany.org/
Hey Mark,
Any chance we could get the inside scoop of what the retreat schedule looks like, and the resources you use to facilitate the meetings (books, formats, etc.)?
Hey Mark,
Hey, I'd love to see a post on how to structure a retreat. I think I remember one like that from last year on Evotional. Can you "re-blog" it, as many of us are doing the same sort of thing this time of the year, and could use the suggestions.
Thanks,
Nathan
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