When I posted earlier this year about goal-setting in youth ministry, I had an idea that I’d be posting this summer for the purpose of evaluation. I had no idea that I’d be posting what I’m about to post.
I learned something today. Goals change – in huge ways.
As I looked back over our goals for 2010, I realized that 50% of the goals I set are literally obsolete. By that, I mean that we are killing the program that half of our goals were set for.
Specifically, we’ve been following God in a most risky journey. I believe He has led us to kill our Wednesday night community environment, and replace it with a different method of outreach (cell groups, which I’ll be talking a lot about in the future). Since half of our goals were designed to enrich and help our Remix service become more excellent, they are absolutely obsolete.
And that’s why you re-evaluate.
We’ve adopted a plan in which we set goals for 12 months, and re-evaluate at each quarter. It’s been my experience that we go through different thought processes in different seasons, and often times, we need to re-focus in on what God is doing now (not just what we planned on doing 6 months ago).
Did you set goals in January? How has the year changed things for your ministry/organization? Are you chasing after an old dream, when God wants something new out of you?
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.”
- Isaiah 43:19