The Evangel Dean School - Developing Wisdom

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Toward a Flexible Strategy for Ministry: Coordinating the Team for Success , continued

(2) Open dialogue: No project is done without open dialogue, critical analysis, and honest evaluation of results both throughout the event and after. We evaluate everything in order to assess “How did the accomplishment of this project help or hinder us in our strategic goals and purposes?” (3) Record evaluation: All insights should be archived (written down, recorded, and stored for future reference). If your efforts are not worthy to be evaluated, then they are not important enough to be initiated.

c. Celebrate the completion of this project as a team.

d. Get feedback from key team members, participants and stakeholders.

Note: Skilled project management was not the real reason for the completion of the work, Neh. 6.15-16 (ESV) – . . . So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days. [16] And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

C. Illustration: Evangel School of Urban Church Planting

1. Illustrating Project Proposal

a. TUMI Project Process: www.tumi.org/project

b. TUMI Project Proposal: back-of-the-napkin checklist

c. Budget worksheet: Project Planning budget worksheet (Excel)

d. Post-its (Mural.ly: Online project brainstorming platform)