A Vision for the Future Planting Today Planning Today For a Community Tomorrow For a Harvest Tomorrow

Meet MCESP M idwest C hurch E xtension S trategic P lanning A process to help ensure organizational efficiency and effectiveness Relates everything that MCE does, from the Executive Director to the individual church planter, to the strategic … “MCEnd”

MCWhat? “The permeation of every identifiable Midwestern community with the hope of the Gospel through the biblical ministry of reproductive IFCA International churches.” MCEnd!

Survey Identification of population centers Metropolitan communities Micropolitan communities Antepolitan communities Isopolitan communities Demographics Historical Context Spiritual Context Example

Alliances EXPLORING/FORMING ALLIANCES - with IFCA International entities willing to partner with MCE to accomplish our objectives? What sort of support and to what degree will such alliances contribute to MCE’s efforts? Direct – On site Indirect – From a Distance

Viability Assessment PRIORITIZING TARGETS While research will help to identify certain objective considerations in this process, there will always be some degree of subjectivity inherent in each situation. The objective elements would include: Un-churched population Degree of Gospel witness and ministry Potential for networking Presence of a "core group" "Macedonian Call" Other Divine Direction Objective Factors Subjective Factors Priority Target

Enlistment RECRUITING THE MINISTRY FORCE Planting team support Prayer Personnel Finances Other

Mobilization MOBILIZING THE MINISTRY FORCE Review, assign, place, and coordinate On site plant personnel Alliance Resources MCE Resources

Engagement The MCE Planting Team Strategy: 4 Phases Initiate the MCE Plant Develop the MCE Plant Complete the MCE Plant Prepare for the next MCE Plant

Initiate the MCE Plant Develop the MCE Plant Complete the MCE Plant Prepare for the next MCE Plant 4 Phases of Engagement

Initiate the MCE Plant Begin worship services Begin outreach Begin discipleship 4 Phases of Engagement

Develop the MCE Plant Building Budget Board Body Life 4 Phases of Engagement

Complete the MCE Plant Self-Sustaining Self-Perpetuating Self-Governing 4 Phases of Engagement

Acts 9:31 – “Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.” Judea Galilee Samaria

Acts 9:31 – “Then had the churches rest throughout all Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.”