The global treasury team has embraced this counsel and adopted the theme of Mobilizing Resources for Mission to represent our singular and systematic focus on mission.  Mobilizing Resources for Mission is not a slogan for us but rather serves as our signature commitment to be faithful stewards of the resources – financial, human, and technological – that God has provided the Church to advance His Kingdom.  To facilitate this focus, we conduct our activities through the lens of the following five-part framework:

Anticipate

An essential business practice is to anticipate a variety of scenarios of what could have a positive or negative impact on the organization. By documenting a planned response to these scenarios or developing a response framework for unanticipated scenarios, the Church creates safeguards against the prospect of being caught flat-footed when there is a crisis.  

Align

Organizational structures and systems have a shared purpose – to be servants of mission. Therefore, it is imperative to align these structures and systems to ensure the effective and efficient utilization of resources. This should be an ongoing exercise that seeks as its goal to spend more on the mission and spend less on the machinery.

Automate

The abilities of technology increase exponentially each year and has long arrived at the capacity to perform numerous tasks without human intervention. Maximizing advances in technology to automate repetitive tasks will enable the Church to recalibrate staffing levels to control costs or repurpose personnel to more frontline mission responsibilities.  

Associate

Church organizations pursue a common mission, yet the suite of technical competencies necessary to do so are not universally available. Breaking through the veil of established geographic boundaries and finding ways to associate with other Church organizations within the family allow for leveraging the best available competencies while lessening the duplication of effort to produce similar resources or perform standard responsibilities.  

Analyze

There is a wealth of information trapped in the transactional data that is recorded by an organization. When organizations analyze this information in real time, they can unlock the stories of progress to be celebrated and understand the signals of problems to be corrected. Employing such a data-driven approach to management and governance keeps Church organizations on the leading edge of knowing what is happening, why it is happening, and what should be done in response.