Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand

Good strategic planning for mission needs to take seriously all these ingredients and the inter-relationships between them.

Our identity and heritage

Who are we?
Where have we come from?
What are our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats?
What are the key strategic relationships within which we work?
What is our organisational structure?
What are our core values and assumptions

Our context

What is the environment in which we work?
What are the givens of our society, location and church?
What are the issues affecting people?
What would Good News be in this context?
Who are we responsible and accountable to?
Who can we rely on?
Who are we here for?
How do others see us?     What is our reputation?

Our vision

What is a short and memorable way of saying what we stand for?
What are we on about?

Our mission

What would faithfulness mean for this unit of the Church?
What are we here for?
Who are we here for?

Key mission and ministry areas

In what areas will we need to be achieving if we are to fulfil our mission and ministry (be faithful)?

Key Mission and Ministry Areas are a list of headings under which we can review our faithfulness.

Goals, objectives and action plans

Goals

What is the current goal under this Key Mission and Ministry Area?
Where will we have to get to in this area to have been faithful to our mission over the next two years?

Each Key Mission and Ministry Area can be expressed as a current goal for specific fields of responsibility, and generate specific objectives.

Goal statements begin with To...

Objectives

What projects or tasks are we going to do to help achieve this goal?

Objectives are statements of specific projects or tasks that will need to happen to achieve the goal. There is often more than one objective for a goal.

Action Plans

What steps do we need to take, when and by whom to accomplish the objectives?
What resources will be needed to enable the objectives to be accomplished?
What resources do we already have?
What resources do we need to look for?

The group needs to regularly review its Key Mission and Ministry Areas and agree to strategies that will achieve stated objectives.

Action Plans are the steps of how you are going to accomplish the objectives.

Priorities

In which Key Mission and Ministry Areas is the present state limiting your ability to fulfil your Mission? Which objectives, if they were met, would make most contribution to fulfilling your Mission?

Priorities are statements to guide action in the short term (say, the next six months). These are the things that if done will make most difference in accomplishing our goals and mission.

Review process

Priorities

Priorities need to be reviewed and if necessary modified at least annually.

Action plans

Action Plans need to be reviewed and if necessary modified at least quarterly.

Objectives

Objectives need to be reviewed and if necessary modified at least every two years.

Key mission and ministry areas

Key Mission and Ministry Areas need to be reviewed and if necessary modified at least every three years.

Context

The statement of Context needs to be reviewed and if necessary modified at least every two years.

Vision and mission

The Vision and Mission Statements need to be reviewed and if necessary modified about every five years.