Prisoners For Christ Strategic Plan 2024-2030
About the Cover The chess board , what a great example and analogy of a Strategic Plan. What do you do in a game of chess? You use strategy and planning. You plan the best you can, for the expected, the unexpected and the unknown. That is where the real challenge is. You are constantly revising and pivoting when the unexpected happens. You can “never” give up because when the unexpected happens it is not always a bad thing, it might just be to your advantage. A Strategic Plan falls in the same category. It’s about thinking and planning for what may or may not come. It’s about always being ready, the best you can, for the unexpected. It falls under the same idea of leadership, which says you must make a decision. One of the basic tenants of leadership is, “always make the best decision you can with the best information at hand,” and then be ready to change if needed. The Strategic Plan is there to help point the way and to keep you in your lanes. The Challenge in the game of chess is to “win” the game. To do that we must know and understand who we are playing against. In the physical realm we normally have a human opponent. Our opponent’s goal is to outwit and out strategize us until they can boldly shout out “Checkmate,” winning the game. In the spiritual realm we have a more sinister opponent who is not only trying to outwit and out strategize us, but to completely destroy our ministries and anything of God. His name is Satan. When we are out in the woods and we are lost, one of the first things we are told to do is look for the North Star to help us know what direction to go. Why? It always points to the true North and will help us find our direction. We also have a spiritual “North Star” to guide us when we are writing and using our Strategic Plan. He is the ultimate strategic planner, and that is God. By trusting in God’s guidance while preparing and following our own Strategic Plan we are putting ourselves in the best hands possible to help us find our way out of the woods and be on the right path. The Result is that we here at Prisoners For Christ have learned to use the gifts God has given us to the best of our ability without fear. We can and do “move the pieces” and “strategize” without fear, much like during Covid when everyone and everything had to pivot. Chess is not a game for the fearful, it is a game for the bold. It is the same with a Strategic Plan. It is with this boldness
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