Evaluation that Leads to Cuts: Senior Staff Retreat (4 of 4)
The conversation around the Call to Action: Reordering the Life of the UMC and the subsequent UMC Leadership Summit, as well as the conversation in Kansas and Nebraska about Great Plans for the Great Plains: A Vision (PDF Link), I have been reflecting on the time that I spent on the spring senior staff retreat at Resurrection in which we read together, Bearing Fruit: Ministry with Real Results.
How do you do evaluate the programs and ministries of your local church? It is part of my life in ministry to always ask the question - How could we improve? A time of reflection, evaluation and planning to improve is important. What I had not considered carefully before was evaluation that lead to an ending. This is not just asking - How could we improve? Instead it is asking the question, "Do we need to be doing this any longer?" This could be connected with my earlier post about strategic pruning.
How do you evaluate? Does your evaluation lead to cuts?