1. Write two stories of specific teenagers in your church that capture your vision for your youth ministry. Ideally these stories will be cast one or two years from now.

Story #1:

Story #2:

  1. Reflecting on these stories and the conversations you’ve been having with your churches leadership team over the past few months, what are the two or three areas that are most important for you to focus on? Label them as Goal #1, Goal #2 and Goal #3

Goal #1:

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Goal #2:

Goal #3;

  1. Where are there signs of hope that these changes are already happening?

Goal #1

  1. Who are the people you will need to work with in order to make these changes possible? (List as many as possible)
  1. What are some of the potential losses these people or groups might experience as a result of the proposed changes, and how will you respond to their fears and losses?
  1. As you consider your future goal, how will people be educated about the need for the change?
  1. As you consider your future goal, how will people be encouraged to make the change? Will you institute change all at once or over a period of time?
  1. What resources, funds and specific people will this impact? Are those resources, funds and persons already available and ready to be utilized?
  1. What research or feedbacks have you received that would affirm this goal?
  1. Does this goal necessitate for you any personal skillset development?

Goal #2

  1. Who are the people you will need to work with in order to make these changes possible? (List as many as possible)
  1. What are some of the potential losses these people or groups might experience as a result of the proposed changes, and how will you respond to their fears and losses?
  1. As you consider your future goal, how will people be educated about the need for the change?
  1. As you consider your future goal, how will people be encouraged to make the change? Will you institute change all at once or over a period of time?
  1. What resources, funds and specific people will this impact? Are those resources, funds and persons already available and ready to be utilized?
  1. What research or feedbacks have you received that would affirm this goal?
  1. Does this goal necessitate for you any personal skillset development?

Goal #3

  1. Who are the people you will need to work with in order to make these changes possible? (List as many as possible)
  1. What are some of the potential losses these people or groups might experience as a result of the proposed changes, and how will you respond to their fears and losses?
  1. As you consider your future goal, how will people be educated about the need for the change?
  1. As you consider your future goal, how will people be encouraged to make the change? Will you institute change all at once or over a period of time?
  1. What resources, funds and specific people will this impact? Are those resources, funds and persons already available and ready to be utilized?
  1. What research or feedbacks have you received that would affirm this goal?
  1. Does this goal necessitate for you any personal skillset development?
  1. What type of leadership team do you have that works with you on a regular basis? Will they affirm this direction? How can you create buy-in from them with these changes?
  1. You may have already named “students’ as one of the groups of people who need to be brought into this process but if you haven’t, how can you get them to buy-in to this vision? What specific steps will you take to do this?
  1. Who overseas your ministry? Have they bought into these changes?
  1. If you don’t have a parents sounding board or some sort of forum for students to share their ideas on the future, how might having that assist this vision?
  1. At this point, what could prevent you from realizing your vision? What might hinder the plan?
  1. How will you keep from getting distracted?
  1. If you were to create a schedule or timeline for each goal and it’s implementation, what might that schedule look like?