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Network Strategic Plan 2025

In February of 2025, the Network Board of Directors launched a strategic planning process to equip the Network to step into the future.  We expect the process to last into the 2nd quarter of 2026.  

The Board identified four areas of growth and focus for the Network:

1.  Membership:

The Network's objectives in this area include
1. Develop clarity around the meaning of membership.  Determine: does that term even apply or work in our current culture?
2. Grow the Network Plus membership (or whatever we are going to call it) to 1,515

2. Resource Development

The Network's objectives in this area include
1. Create a resource curation team
2. Invite and encourage the sharing of self-created resources
3. Enhance our resource infrastructure
4. Build a database of resource people who could help or consult with other individuals or congregations who would benefit from the relationship.

3. Extravaganza

The Network's objectives in this area include
1. Define what the Extravaganza should look like
2. Make the Extravaganza as accessible as possible

4. Affirmation, Renewal and Value of Ministry

The Network's objectives in this area include
1. Create an affirmation team
2. Find regular ways of affirming people in ministry
    (create 9 "affirmation events" over 3 years)
3. Tell stories of powerful ministry moments

Read more about the strategic plan...

Team Members

The Network is currently forming a team for each of these four areas, and is recruiting individuals to be a part of these teams.  If you would like to be considered to serve on one of them, please fill out this short form.  You will be contacted on or around August 1.  Thank you for considering helping to create a better Network!