Introduction from TAG
St. Andrew Lutheran Church contracted with TAG to assess your congregation. TAG is a management consulting and coaching firm headquartered in Fairfax, VA – just outside of Washington, DC. We specialize in strategic planning, organizational assessment/development, coaching, and conflict resolution. Approximately 30% of our work is with congregations. The other 70% includes work with federal government agencies, financial institutions, non-profits, and a variety of other businesses. We have worked with over 300 congregations of all sizes from various denominations.
During the process, we gathered information from the following sources:
- Advance documentation (membership trends, financial trends, demographic information, church history, issues identified by the pastor, ministry information, and so forth)
- Transforming Church Index (congregational survey that compares your church to national norms)
- Focus groups and/or interviews with various members in your church (newcomers, long-term members, leaders, staff, and so forth)
Using the assessment results, the Strategic Planning team met on two separate weekend retreats. The facilitator led the group through the analysis and a number of detailed exercises that resulted in the definition of our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT), our Core Values as a Congregation and our revised Mission. From this information, the team set five key goals to start working on to address these findings.
The links below are the documents we used and the results of the work we have done to date. Please feel free to review these materials and we encourage you all to join a planning team and get involved in making St Andrew a “Healthy Church”.
