how to spend $250K

first not on you, you’re not as important as you might think. Jesus and his supremacy is far greater.

second, you could look around for some people who are keen on starting something new that helps people to know Jesus like a church plant and invest in them. I like this idea and think its necessary – but to be honest it not how I’d spend my first $250k, but defintely my second $250k. with the right guy, who has the the right message & the right mission in the right context – its a potentially high return – but its also a high risk – and having joined a body of people who in the past decade have blown half a million this way – I think there may be something that is lower risk and higher return as as first measure. 

so third – this is what I’d do first

Find those who are already in place, doing mission with existing reources – and spend the money helping them to do mission better. they’re there, they just not always sure what they are doing. 

you won’t improve everyone this way, but most churches I know have good guys, with the right message and mission but the wrong resources. I’d help them to get simple and clear about what they are doing, realise the potential of the resources they already have at their disposal, and give them the supports for putting in a place a growth orientated process in their churches. 

so what would $250 k buy? 

two things. 

1. leadership consultancy that actually helps churches to be missionally strategic and effective. 

2. leadership consultancy that helps churches to create new capital to fund there new improved mission strategies. 

in my context this will mean 

1. we stopped giving church grants where they throw good money into bad strategies and structures 

2. we plant churches only out of healthy missionally effective and growing structures that can support them. 

3. we reources leaders in existing churches by helping them to mangae their existing captial better whilst creating new captial and structures that will orientate for growth. 

4. when we do give churches grants for new projects, we will be confident that the money will be better spent because there will be better leaders with better structure in place.

5. overseers will have a clear focus, pastoral care of their leaders and facilitating the right consultants for growth.