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Open Bible Churches - Stategic Objectives

• Make prayer a visible and vital core value of OBC
• Appoint national prayer leadership and secure budget
• Recruit regional coordinators and local intercessors
• Encourage all OBC leadership to develop personal prayer circles
• Model prayer – make it a part of all gatherings, e.g., boards, conferences, etc.

• Appoint national leadership and secure budget
• Expand the number of active leadership development training centers
• Explore new models of leadership development
• Employ Refocus to renew and equip current leaders
• OBC leadership intentionally mentor a circle of emerging young leaders

• Support EBC in funding and construction of the Student Life Center
• Promote charitable giving through gift annuities and bequests
• Innovate to secure long-term funding for Children’s Ministries
• Establish a Church Planting Endowment Fund
• Develop and grow the Open Bible Service Foundation

• OBC leadership involvement in the Body of Christ
• Upgrade Web site architecture, design, and graphics
• Develop strategic partnerships with other organizations/ministries
• Develop an organizational strategy to link with church lay leadership

• Create a culture and core value of outreach, care, and evangelism in OBC
• Support the International Ministries Strategic Plan – ADVANCE
• Promote the Mission America Phase II Lighthouse vision
• Celebrate in publications and at conferences those active in outreach
• Church planting: Become a church multiplication movement

• Create and fund a national office of Ethnic Ministries
• Identify current ethnic and multicultural churches/leaders
• Be inclusive: Ethnic representation on boards and committees
• Translate and print critical OBC literature as needed
• Convene a summit of Open Bible ethnic leaders for strategic planning

• Fund and resource regional offices to accomplish this priority objective
• Explore the possible partnership of YWAM with local Open Bible Churches
• Pastoral Health: Involve pastors and leaders in the Refocus network
• Church Health: Assist churches to identify “minimum factors” (NCD)
• Advance Ministry Certificates: Consideration of the AMC proposal

• Commitment to strong, loving, relational ties among OBC leadership
• Commitment to integrate the national, regional, and department strategic plans
• Commitment to share innovations and resources
• Commitment to celebrate one another’s victories and growth
• Commitment to support one another in crisis and in ongoing prayer

Contact the national office directly at:
INFO@OPENBIBLE.ORG

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