The following is based on applying lessons from the book by
a seminary professor I know.
Ministry Nuts and Bolts by Aubery Malphurs.
The tentative name for the for-profit business is John
Oliver Lessons.
God has led me to apply the lessons in the book I have been
reading to this enterprise.
PURPOSE – why your
organization exists, the reason it does what it does
• I believe God
has gifted and called me as a writer, publisher and marketer; therefore I must
make it my top priority to discover and
develop my God given talents related to these.
CORE VALUES – why
you do what you do (Christian ministries get these from the Bible)
• intention to
cause in the readers
• accountability
• responsibility
• purposefulness
• character of
the content
• personal
• helpful
• educational
• supportive
• inspirational
• challenging
• respectful
• empathetic
• holistic
• equipping
• writing style
• simplicity
• clarity
• honesty
• directness
• Christian
core
• grace
oriented
• faith
producing
• Christ
centered
• biblical
based
• God
glorifying
MISSION – what you
are supposed to accomplish, what you plan or intend to do
• Faithfully
steward my God-given talents for producing and promoting my lessons using effective systems.
VISION – your
picture of the future of the organization in the months and years ahead. The
leader of the organization communicates the vision to the board and to donors.
• Persistently
learning and teaching the wisdom, knowledge and skills that God provides.
• Consistently
writing and editing my lessons.
• Publishing my
lessons using suitable kinds of online and offline media.
• Blending online
with offline communication methods where most appropriate.
• Designing and
implementing systems for carefully laying the theoretical foundations,
providing plenty of options for practical applications, organically growing
mutually supportive communities, reaching out to those who could be served and periodically
monitoring operations to guide continual improvements.
• Continually
improving systems for marketing my lessons that are synergistic, sustainable
and scalable.
• Finding my
sweet spot(s) in these processes to optimize, then hire out or delegate the
rest.
• Gradually and
gracefully developing ways to improve my personal productivity related to all
of this.
• Holding in
tension the fact that I might live for a few more decades or a few more months.
And so plan, prepare and produce within these extremes.
• Aiming for
there to be ways my lessons will become
available to the most people. Therefore
in most cases there will be free versions
of my lessons available.
• Keeping in
focus my intention to excel at creating and marketing digital content in order
to best lead my by examples. Expecting to instruct and guide college students
in gradually growing a passive income during their years of study. This is with
the view for them to continue improving
their digital inventory and profitable services after graduation. Then
they will have income insurance. They can freely choose get involved in for
profit and or nonprofit enterprises without looking primarily to them for
paying bills.
• Accept and
embrace that my nonprofit organization named Our Stewardship Community will
offer Global Educational Canals. Those will serve as ways for my digital
lessons to travel cross-culturally using Community Centered Libraries.
• Pioneer new
pathways to earn a handsome online passive income in order to afford to have
the time and energy to also contribute my talents generously to nonprofit. And
along this way to maintain holistic balance in my personal life.
• My physical
body is mortal therefore there will come a last day on this earth. I do not
know when or how. But I desire for my lessons to continue to spread after I am
gone. This is my legacy to future generations.
So there will be self-funding systems to make this happen.
• The Lord
Jesus Christ has blessed me with an abundance of ideas for lessons. Most of
them are Christian based. I must take great care to present my lessons as
true to the Bible and honoring to the
Lord Jesus Christ. I must be bold in proclaiming the pure and simple gospel message.
I will take great care to effectively serve seekers, new believers and those
willing to mature in the Christian faith.
STRATEGY – how you
do what you do, how you spend your time attempting to accomplish in the MISSION
• I have not
yet studied this part of the book.
• When I have
finished studying this part I will fill out this section.
