SDA Strategic Plan

[Gregory Matthews]

Did you know that the SDA denomination has a Strategic Plan to reach the world.  Here it is:

http://www.adventistresearch.org/strategic-plan

NOTE:  This website contains a number of documents.

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

 

How did the pioneers of the Adventist denomination ever manage without diagrams telling them what to do and how to do it?

 

 

[CoAspen]

Such a large .org certainly needs some organization planning. But...I think Pam has an interesting question. Such a large .org needs a lot of funds such to even design long range plans and to employ the people who implement and carry out those plans. For me, the question is have we become so large that that support for the 'outreach' has become a burden to the accomplishment of such.

[Jeannieb43]

I think our organization has become top-heavy, with too many dollars being spent on "officers" who have desk jobs, and not enough being spent at the grass roots level, where the actual message is going out.  Do any of the Seminary graduates really realize that our wonderful message of Christ's soon return is more valuable than any number of miles of airline travel, or hours of preaching, in this country or abroad.  Jesus reached people by personal contact, one-on-one.   That's the best way to live our message.   We don't need so many people telling us how to do everything.  Just more people out in the hinterlands, working with people themselves.

[Gregory Matthews]

The current issue of Spectrum has a number articles that are of interest and speak to current issues.  Probably tomorrow, I will post a more detailed comment on this issue.  However,  an article by David Thomas suggests that we as a denomination have moved from a community of believers to an organization that is following the path of what is called in business the Organizational Life Cycle.

These stages are listed as:

Start Up

Entrepreneurial

Growth (Early & Middle)

Mature

Decline

Crisis

The Crisis Stage leads to either Renewal or Demise.  Which happens depends on:

Leadership: And how leaders foresee and plan for the crisis.

Infrastructure:  This is developed in the article and is more complex than I want to simplify here.  But, it has a lot to do with administrative power and how it is exercised.