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• Design the Transition Year Plan/Process called a NEW thing!

• Design a transition year website for a NEW thing!~Overview Flowcharts

  ~Progress Chart

  ~FAQ’s

  ~Email Updates

  ~Special Documents

• Launch website as part of IBC

• Feb 26—BOO Meeting—Set schedule for BOO meetings in 2008-09

• Design/distribute an IBC Initial Self-evaluation Survey (Preserve?, Avoid?, Achieve?)

• Invite BGC to do a SWOT Analysis of IBC

• Announce BOO’s Recommendation:

  a NEW thing!

• Launch regular email updates—and pointing IBC folks to website for latest information (sent to about 350 known lay leaders, delegates and pastors)

• Announce BOO’s Recommendation:a NEW thing!

• Solicit BGC /Districts Advisory Team Members to lend guidance to overall process

March

2008

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• Schedule—5-7 Regional    Town Hall Meetings

• IBC Brainstormers gather a broad range of concepts describing as many possible potential strategic alliances and ministry alignments we can think of…

  ~From surveys (known lay leaders & pastors)

  ~From LEAD Teams

  ~From Town Hall Meetings

• Regular email updates: Informing and promoting entire conference… with a special focus on known delegates to affirm a NEW thing! by their vote at annual meeting on May 3, 2008

• Schedule SWOT Analysis with BGC Leadership (Scheduled for June 6-7)

• (Waiting For Vote)

April

2008

• (Waiting For Vote)

May

2008

• Statewide LEAD MEETING Pastors prioritize ideas and identify a manageable few “best potential options” to pursue next year

• ANNUAL MEETING at Edgewood Family Fellowship in Cedar Rapids on May 3, 2008

• ANNOUNCE RESULTS OF VOTE: Shall IBC move forward on the BOO's recommendation called a NEW thing!?

• Prepare Prospectus

  ~Current IBC ministries

  ~Self-Evaluation

   

• Quiet Phase: Send Prospectus to various parties identified among the “best potential options”

• Request follow-up meetings

June

2008

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• Do SWOT Analysis at IBC Board of Overseers Retreat

• Regular Email Updates reporting on activities and progress on a NEW Thing!

• Point IBC folks to website for latest information

• ~SWOT Analysis

• Quiet Phase (cont.)    Schedule IBC representatives to meet face-to-face with various entity representatives… to discover initial feasibilities and any mutual impracticalities.

• Include discussions on any potential role for PLCC

July

2008

August

2008

September

2008

• Regular Email Updates reporting on activities and progress on a NEW Thing!

• Point IBC folks to website for latest information

• Public Phase Board-level discussions and negotiation with favorable entities

October

2008

November

2008

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• Mid-Year District-wide meeting at Eldora to review progress and narrow the options

December

2008

• Transition Director drafts an Initial Recommendation for BOO

January

2009

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• BOO MEETING—to examine the Transition Director's recommendation

• BOO determines final proposal for IBC constituents

• Regular Email Updates reporting on activities and progress on a NEW Thing!

• ANNOUNCE: The proposed new strategic alliance.

February

2009

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• Schedule—5-7 Regional Town Hall Meetings

• Transition Director attends LEAD Team Meetings... informing and promoting proposal

March

2009

• Regular Email Updates reporting on activities and progress on a NEW Thing!

• Point IBC folks to website for latest information

• Town Hall Meetings???

April

2009

May

2009

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Annual Meeting  

May 1-2 

• VOTE:  To accept the proposed new strategic alliance

June

2009

Celebrate the Wedding...

The Honeymoon Begins!

• Engage the new alliance!