Discussion
Your post-Session assignment involves the ministry or church that you selected for your Pre-Session assignment. You may select the whole ministry or church as the target for this assignment, but you may also narrow the focus of the Post-Session assignment to a strategic portion of the church or ministry that would benefit from your consulting advice. In a paper of at least 15 - 20 pages:
Take the ministry or church you selected for the Pre-Session assignment and assume the role of a ministry consultant, hired as a change agent, to bring about specific transformation in that ministry. Students are encouraged to approach key leadership in the selected ministry or church, about a formal consulting agreement.
If the church or ministry selected is one where you have major leadership responsibility, students are encouraged to approach peer leadership with a formal consulting arrangement. Inform the ministry or church that this work is part of a Doctor of Ministry course on vision, mobilization, and management. If possible, draw up a formal consulting agreement with terms and expectations.
Meet with the stakeholders (leadership, some of the congregants or ministry recipients) as a reality check to confirm your ideas for change and transformation. Record a summary of your findings.
Describe current state of the ministry, the status of its core directives, its ability to mobilize, deploy, and direct human and financial resources from both your standpoint, and the standpoint of key stakeholders.
Propose specific changes that you would suggest in the church or ministry, based on the reading materials, textbook questions and discussion forums, class lectures, and peer discussions you have experienced in class. Look for areas that are leadership-needy or could benefit from structured change and transformation, that might remove roadblocks to growth, or create a pathway for renewal, transformation, or wholeness.
Produce an assessment of the core directives for that church and ministry, including assessment of their effectiveness, specificity, integration into church or ministry life, means of communication, and other key necessities. Propose changes that might aid the church or ministry in transforming these key distinctives into a more cogent, clear, and effective tool to guide.
Assess the effectiveness of the mobilization in the church or ministry as it now stands, relative to the implementation of the core directives and available pool of human and financial resources. Suggest changes that might catalyze more effective mobilization of these resources.
Create a strategic plan that ties core directives to mobilization goals and produces more efficient management of the resources available to the ministry.
Produce a summary document, PowerPoint, or other presentation that can be given or shown to the church or ministry stockholders as a product of your consultation.
Report on any positive or negative results or feedback you receive from the stakeholders
This assignment has been created to demonstrate your ability to synthesize class lecture, reading, discussion, and resources into a real-world solution for church and ministry needs, based on your understanding of the importance of vision, mobilization, and management.
It also places you in the role of a real-world contributing teacher (doctor) of ministry by allowing you to be a catalyst for positive change and transformation in local church and ministry.