1. Elements of Project Planning

2. Purpose Activities Capacity Proposal Conditions Goals
Objectives and Activities
Resources
Activities
Results
Impact
Mission and assets
Challenges
Capacity

3. CONDITIONS
PURPOSE
GOALS

4. Edgewood United Church UCC
Condition: The language of call—and everyone having a particular call from God—is new to our congregation. People never considered it. Edgewood has a strong call to justice and service, but we struggle to articulate our individual calls. Longing to share stories, reflect on “inner experiences” and connect with each other; connect faith in worship to our lives.

5. Edgewood United Church UCC
Condition: The language of call—and everyone having a particular call from God—is new to our congregation. People never considered it. Edgewood has a strong call to justice and service, but we struggle to articulate our individual calls. Longing to share stories, reflect on “inner experiences” and connect with each other; connect faith in worship to our lives.
Purpose: In order to sustain and strengthen the work we do in the world, we need to nurture and strengthen our personal connections to God, our understanding of who we are as individuals and what our gifts are and deepen our relationships with people we are working alongside. Our project this year helps us put a fraction of the passion and care we offer to our neighbors toward our own health and spiritual wellness. (from #8, p. 4)

6. Edgewood United Church UCC
Condition: The language of call—and everyone having a particular call from God—is new to our congregation….
Purpose: In order to sustain and strengthen the work we do in the world, we need to nurture and strengthen our personal connections to God
Goal 1: Connect with God: Help Edgewood members develop their connection to God and experience spirituality, using prayer practices and the language of vocation and calling.
Goal 2: Excavate our Stories: Provide multiple opportunities for people to articulate their faith story and share that story…
Goal 3: Grow in Cohorts: Develop specific cohorts to cultivate deeper sharing and connection around stages of life and/or identity, beginning with recent retirees, LGBTQ+ folks, and youth.

7. Church: saint benedict’s table
Condition:…we all use terms like “calling” and “vocation” in different ways. …a fairly high degree of ambivalence in discussing those terms until we began exploring…
Purpose: We are hoping to help individuals in our congregation answer the question, “How do I understand vocation and how does that understanding impact my life? And to invite people and congregations in our online community to do the same.
Goal 1: To enrich and deepen our conversations about vocation.
Goal 2: To weave the arts into those conversations
Goal 3: To deepen our community’s vocation as a liturgical, artistic, and theological resource to the wider Body of Christ by rebuilding and augmenting our already attractive corner lot in the digital commons.

8. GOALS
OBJECTIVES
ACTIVITY

9. Goals and Objectives are your response to the condition

10. Goals and Objectives Your response to the condition
Goals are broad and point to change
Objectives are specific, concrete

11. Goals, Objectives, Activities
Goals are broad and point to change
Objectives are specific, concrete
Activities are the “to dos” for each objective

12. Goal 1: Connect with God: Help Edgewood members develop their connection to God and experience spirituality, using prayer practices and the language of vocation and calling.
Objective 1: Called to Life six-week small group (Fall 2019)
Objective 2: Six-week worship and continuing ed series on spiritual practices (Lent 2020)
Objective 3: All-church weekend retreat to connect cross generationally, model Sabbath, and begin exploration for year 2 (May 2020

16. Goal 1: Connect with God: Help Edgewood members develop their connection to God and experience spirituality, using prayer practices and the language of vocation and calling.
Objective 1: Called to Life six-week small group (Fall 2019)
Activity 1: Promote small groups – sign up on Sundays, bulletin ads, pulpit push
Activity 2: Train facilitators
Objective 2: Six-week worship and continuing ed series on spiritual practices (Lent 2020)
Activity 1: Research spiritual practices and design curriculum
Activity 2: Find teachers and/or speakers
Objective 3: All-church weekend retreat to connect cross generationally, model Sabbath, and begin exploration for year 2 (May 2020
Activity 1: Design retreat
Activity 2: Identify leaders and speakers on vocation
Goal 2: Excavate our Stories: Provide multiple opportunities for people to articulate their faith story and share that story with others in our faith community. Our goal is to create opportunities for people to reflect, share, and form connections through our personal stories.
Objective 1: Called to Life: 6 week small group (Fall 2019)
Activity 1: Promote program
Activity 3:
Activity 4:
Objective 2: Sponsor 2 programs with Islamic Center program on “The Purpose of Life”
Activity 1:
Activity 2:
Goal 3: Grow in Cohorts: Develop specific cohorts to cultivate deeper sharing and connection around stages of life and/or identity, beginning with recent retirees, LGBTQ+ folks, and youth.
Objective 1: Begin Queer Connections monthly LGBTQ+ group (Aug 2019
Activity 1: Promote groups
Activity 2: Design activities: discussion questions, books, speakers, story-telling
Objective 2: Guest preacher and workshop on spirituality and aging (Oct 2019)
Activity 1: Invite speaker
Activity 2: Get venue and promote
Objective 3: Convene folks w/in 5 years of pre and post retirement to form support group (Winter 2019)
Activity 1: Identify participants and invite to the group
Activity 2: Identify activities: discussion questions, books, spiritual practices
Objective 4: Weekly Confirmation class with youth: articulate faith in relationship to gifts and calling
Activity 1: Design curriculum
Activity 2: Get materials, speakers….

17. Activities can be further described by:
Person responsible
Schedule
Costs

18. Guest speaker on spirituality and aging Liz October 2019 Speaker fee
Activity
Person Responsible
Schedule
Costs
Guest speaker on spirituality and aging
Liz
October 2019
Speaker fee
Refreshments
Books
Read 3 books to identify speaker and listen to podcasts
Yesterday
Contact speaker
Next week
Reserve auditorium; pay for auditorium
Soon
Contact video maker
Interview speaker
Post on website
September
October
November

19. Objectives and Activities
Resources
Objectives and Activities
Results
Impact

20. Results are quantifiable: the number of people, products, and events that eventuate from activities and have an impact on people.

21. Goal 1: Connect with God:
Results
Objective 1: Called to Life six-week small group (Fall 2019)
75 participants in 6 groups
Objective 2: Six-week worship and continuing ed series on spiritual practices (Lent 2020)
500 people attend series on spiritual practices
100 books distributed
Objective 3: All-church weekend retreat to connect cross generationally, model Sabbath, and begin exploration for year 2 (May 2020
100% participation

22. Impact is the way people are changed from activities and results, which includes new attitudes, knowledge, or skills.

23. Goal 1: Connect with God:
Results
Impact
Objective 1: small group (Fall 2019)
75 participants in 6 groups
People asking questions about how God calls them
Objective 2: Six-week worship and continuing ed series on spiritual practices (Lent 2020)
500 people attend series on spiritual practices
100 books distributed
Participants were able to articulate how the spiritual practices helped them expand their understanding of God’s presence in their lives
Objective 3: All-church weekend retreat
100% participation
Community discerns next steps to connect, excavate, and grow…

24. IMPACT is over time
INITIAL
INTER-MEDIATE
LONG-TERM

25. Initial impact =
immediate benefits or changes in knowledge, attitudes, skills, or behaviors.
Intermediate impact
substantial and significant changes that establish new patterns of thinking and behavior that are intentional and habitual.
Long-term impact
a meaningful change in identity and culture that that persists over time.

26. Pour the foundation that will hold up everything we will eventually build. We hope that people end this next year feeling more connection between their faith/spirituality and their daily lives, feel like they are not alone with their questions and struggles, and feel like they have a robust vocabulary to describe the ways they find meaning and purpose in their work, families……our relationships with ourselves, our God, and each other are stronger

27. We hope to touch every group and facet of the church’s life in one or more ways as we develop a common vocabulary and articulate a shared understanding of the meaning of Christian vocation and calling.
First Congregational UCC

28. Initial
Intermediate
Long-term
We hope to touch every group and facet of the church’s life in one or more ways as we develop a common vocabulary and articulate a shared understanding of the meaning of Christian vocation and calling. .

29. Initial
Intermediate
Long-term
Members able to articulate a sense of calling in their lives and learn stories about other’s callings.
Members expand their understanding of God’s callings in their lives.
We hope to touch every group and facet of the church’s life in one or more ways as we develop a common vocabulary and articulate a shared understanding of the meaning of Christian vocation and calling.
The congregation has a shared sense of purpose and calling and supports each individual’s calling in multiple ways.

30. A new, concrete reality that we are organizing ministry around the gifts and calls of all the baptized as they follow their life paths, unleashing fresh energy internally and externally as a congregation.
St Mark’s

31. Purpose Activities Capacity Rationale: WHY Conditions Goals
Objectives and Activities
Resources
Activities
Results
Impact
Mission and assets
Challenges
Capacity

32. Definition A project responds to a set of conditions
by gathering resources
that support activities
that produce results
that have an impact on people
and a rationale explains why this is so.
Definition