1. Creating Your Ministry Plan
Welcome
Creating Your Ministry Plan
Envisioning Your Future
Hi, I’m Stan Granberg, executive director of Kairos Church Planting. Welcome to the course Creating Your Ministry Plan. This course will guide you step by step through the process of preparing your ministry plan.
Walt Disney once said, If you can dream it, you can do it. Stephen Covey describes this work of envisioning the future as the first creation. We’ve seen an awe-inspiring connection between the ministry plans prepared at the Kairos Strategy Lab and the churches that resulted from them. Whether your ministry plan is for a church plant, a campus ministry, or a church renewal, the ministry plan you create is one of the most highly predictive activities for the future of your ministry. Kairos Church Planting welcomes you to this course on Creating Your Ministry Plan.

2. Orientation 5 PPT tutorials: Orientation
Identity Pyramid (parts 1 and 2)
Kingdom Concept
Prospect Persona
This set of PPTs will help you get ready for Strategy Lab, where we’ll dig into the planting process. There are 5 tutorials: Orientation, Identity Pyramid (parts 1 and 2), Kingdom Concept, and Prospect Persona.

3. Prepare
Download the PreLab Workbook org/groundwork
Action item = Assignment
First, download the PreLab Workbook from the URL provided. This will give you worksheets you’ll use. Bring your completed workbook to lab with you.
Second, each tutorial contains one or more action items to complete. An action item is an assignment that will become part of your ministry plan. While you could sit down and knock all this out in a couple of long, hard days, I encourage you to take your time to complete a unit before you go on to the next. Remember, your ministry plan is your first creation. It is a creation of thought—and thinking is demanding work.

4. Topics What is a ministry plan? 3 views of your ministry
How much is a good ministry plan worth?
Examples
Estimated time to complete: 15 minutes
Let’s get an overview of the topics in this PPT. This tutorial will describe a ministry plan, give you 3 ways to communicate your ideas, set a monetary value to your plan, and provide you with a few visual examples.

5. What is a Ministry Plan? Physically
12 to 15 page visual and narrative description
Design rich, colorful, visual communication
Use professional printing
Functionally
Why do this?
Where will it be?
Who will do it with you?
What is the intended result?
How will you get there?
A ministry plan, physically, is a 12 to 15 page visual and narrative description of your ministry. It should be design rich to attract people’s attention and give you credibility as the author. We encourage you to pay for some professional design and printing services to produce a great product that you will use a lot over the next year or two.
Functionally, your ministry plan will give you credibility. It will answer important questions seed team members, financial donors, and prayer supporters will ask about your plans. One of the reasons a ministry plan takes concentrated work to develop is that you are having to both visualize a ministry that does not yet exist and give language to it. As you do this work you will answer these questions:
Why are you doing this ministry? What is it about you that makes you uniquely prepared to lead this work?
Where will you do this ministry? What is the region, city, and even neighborhood? What are the issues they are facing that your ministry will be able to address?
Who will do this ministry with you? It is amazing the credibility that comes with 2 or 3 other people or families committed to join you. In fact, with a strong vision and mission we expect there to be people who will quit their jobs, sell their homes, and move halfway across the country to be on your team.
What is the intended result? What will this new church, campus ministry, or church look like in 3 years, 5 years? Who will be in it? How will live out your life of faith together? And finally,
How will you get there? This includes a timeline, critical actions, and measureable results at predetermined times.
What you are creating with your ministry plan is that first creation, the mental creation that will answer, for you and others, the most important questions about your intended work.

6. 3 Views 3 views of the plant Narrative Illustration Financial
There are 3 ways you need to learn to view your ministry. You’ll work on 2 of these during strategy lab. And during strategy lab we’ll introduce you to the third way.
The first way to view your ministry is narratively. You need to be able to speak about your work. This will require specific language. Writing your ministry plan will help you elicit that language so you become comfortable and confident with it.
Second you need to be able to Illustrate your ministry. Think in terms of sitting down with someone over a cup of coffee and you grab a napkin and begin to draw your ministry. We use the concept of missional map which will describe how you're going to contact people whom you don't yet know and who don't know Jesus and move them to the point of being committed followers of Jesus.
Third is a financial view. You need to be able to see your ministry in financial terms. When people see you have a realistic idea of how this ministry will be paid for they are much more likely to give to see it happen.

7. Worth How much is your Ministry Plan worth? $ Quarter Million
So, how much do you think your ministry plan is worth? We can tell you: It’s worth $250,000, a quarter of a million dollars. You’re not going to get that kind of money from a mediocre plan or a pipe dream. You need to have a WOW ministry plan. If you follow our process you will have one. We’ve heard many times that our planters’ ministry plans and presentations are the best that churches have heard—ever! We want people to say that about you.

8. Ministry plan examples
Plans available at: KairosChurchPlanting.org/strategylabboard
On the next few slides I’ve put some sample pages from a 3 different ministry plans. As you look at these plans you can see the variety, the personalities, and some of the contents of good ministry plans. We hope these plans begin to inspire you as you start building your ministry plan.

9. Isaziga: San Diego, CA

10. Ark Tech: Campus Ministry

11. UW: Campus Ministry

12. Next up . . . . . . Ministry Pyramid