Orange Week: Integrate Strategy
This week we will be unpacking some of the Orange Strategy that we use in our family ministry. It is our belief that by integrating the same core values and operating principles throughout HarrahChurch our ministries will be stronger and much easier to develop and administrate.
Here are the 5 principles that we use to guide our ministries:
1. Monday – Integrate Strategy
2. Tuesday – Refine the message
3. Wednesday – Reactivate the family
4. Thursday – Elevate Community
5. Friday – Leverage Influence
Tonight we will take at look at how we are integrating our strategy.
Our strategy integration began with HarrahChurch’s decision to hire a Associate Pastor of Family Ministry to oversee the ministry to those from birth-high school graduation. This is our way of doing intentional ministry instead of conventional ministry. Many churches have separate Children’s and Student departments that operate separately of each other. Many times these ministries wind up becoming silos that compete against each other for resources and volunteers. Jeremy is seeking to tightly integrate our Family ministries by using curriculum that looks at a child as an 18 year learning process and not as a quarter publication.
Our current FamilyTimes Sermon Series is a way we are integrating our Sunday morning teachings into our strategy to create a holistic teaching and learning environment. Pastor Jimmy and Jeremy consider how the Sunday sermon can support the teachings that are happening with our preschool, children, and student ministries.
We have challenged our Renovate Student Leadership Team to serve with our Children’s ministry. By serving in our Children’s programs our MS and HS students will learn our strategy and be better equipped to help lead their younger brothers and sisters at home.
Our First Sunday Serve is a way we are integrating our mission to the poor into a Family experience. Families of all sizes are encouraged to serve together and forge new bonds through the act of serving together. We believe that these experiences help provide teaching moments for parents and the opportunity for parents to model what the church should be to their children.
We are constantly thinking about how we can better integrate our strategy through the church. We hope to begin allowing our adult small groups the opportunity to join the strategy soon.