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Redevelopment Journey: Renewal
This strategy is most relevant for a congregation in the Retirement stage of the life cycle, and involves an Experiential Route.
Length of the redevelopment journey is three to five years.
Congregational life cycle-related tactical steps for the Renewal Strategy include the following:
- Diminish the controlling aspects of management systems within the congregation.
- Renew relationships with God and one another within the congregation.
- Revitalize the programs, ministries, and activities of the congregation.
- Cast new vision.
- Engage in a rate or pace of change and transition that is at least discontinuous in nature, and perhaps radical if the congregations has spun through the Retirement stage multiple times without being about to spiral forward to a new partial life cycle.
- Move forward to a new Childhood or Adolescence.
- Reengineer the management systems in alignment with the new vision, and with planned obsolescence to keep it from becoming institutionalized.
The Renewal strategy is discussed further in my article, Renewing the Life of a Retirement Congregation.
If, at this point, you have completed your Route and reviewed your strategy for Coaching, consider Choices next.
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