Purpose, Core Values, Mission and Vision

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.