Oct 14
12:00PM – 1:30PM
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2026-10-14T12:00:00
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America/New_York
Yale Divinity School | From Mission to Momentum: Strategic Planning for Faith Communities with the Rev. Jean-Fritz Guerrier
We invite clergy, lay leaders, scholars, and nonprofit practitioners into a rigorous yet highly practical exploration of how religious organizations can move from worthy aspirations to measurable, sustainable impact. At a moment marked by declining participation, demographic shifts, financial strain, volunteer fatigue, and rapidly changing community expectations, strategic planning is no longer an administrative luxury. It is an essential act of stewardship.
Drawing on real-world congregational experience, organizational research, and proven planning disciplines, this interactive webinar will help participants distinguish strategic leadership from routine operations; assess institutional strengths, assets, stakeholders, and emerging needs; translate mission into priorities; and connect resources, inputs, outputs, outcomes, and indicators in a way that strengthens accountability without diminishing spiritual purpose. Through compelling examples, original planning concepts, thoughtful humor, and collaborative small-group exercises, participants will leave with concrete tools they can immediately adapt to congregations and faith-based organizations of different sizes, traditions, and governing structures, and with a clearer understanding of how institutions can honor their history without becoming captive to it.
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