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Clarify Your Vision. Align Your Values. Focus Your Mission.

Church Alignment Workshop

Many churches have a vision statement, mission statement, or list of values. Fewer churches have leadership teams that are fully aligned around them.

As churches grow, experience leadership transitions, launch new ministries, or seek fresh direction, it becomes increasingly important to answer three foundational questions:

  • Where is God leading us?
  • What values will guide our decisions and behavior?
  • What is our mission and primary focus?

The Church Alignment Workshop is a facilitated process designed to help church leaders gain clarity around these questions and build greater alignment for the future.

Why Alignment Matters

Healthy churches are aligned churches.

When vision, values, and mission work together, leaders gain clarity, ministries become more focused, decisions become easier, and people are better equipped to fulfill God’s calling.

Without alignment, churches often experience:

  • Competing priorities
  • Unclear direction
  • Ministry silos
  • Frustration among leaders
  • Difficulty evaluating opportunities and programs

Alignment helps leaders move forward together with greater confidence and unity.

What We'll Accomplish

Through guided discussion, practical exercises, and collaborative planning, your leadership team will:

Clarify Vision
Develop a compelling picture of the future God is calling your church toward.

Identify Core Values
Identify the principles and convictions that will guide decisions, relationships, ministry priorities, and church culture.

Focus Mission
Clarify your church’s mission and ensure it aligns with your vision and values.

Strengthen Leadership Alignment
Build greater ownership, unity, and consensus among leaders so ministry efforts move in the same direction.

Develop Practical Next Steps
Create a pathway for communicating and implementing the work throughout the church.

Every Church Receives a Church Alignment Report

Ideal For Churches That Are

  • Experiencing growth or transition
  • Welcoming new leadership
  • Revisiting outdated vision, values, or mission statements
  • Launching new ministries
  • Seeking greater unity among leaders
  • Clarifying priorities for the future
  • Preparing for strategic planning or ministry expansion

Following the process, your church will receive a customized Church Alignment Report that serves as a practical leadership resource for future planning and decision-making.

The report includes:

Executive Summary
A summary of the process, key discoveries, and outcomes.

Vision Statement
Your finalized vision statement and supporting rationale.

Mission Statement
Your finalized mission statement and ministry focus.

Identified Core Values
A summary of the core values identified during the workshop process.

Leadership Observations
Key strengths, opportunities, and themes that emerged during the discussions.

Alignment Priorities
Recommended priorities to help maintain alignment between vision, values, mission, and ministry activities.

Leadership Action Plan
Practical next steps for implementation, communication, and ongoing leadership alignment.

Church Alignment Workshop Options

Guided Virtual Process

Investment: $1,995

Three facilitated virtual sessions (approximately two hours each) designed to help church leaders clarify vision, identify core values, and focus mission.

Includes:

  • Three 2-hour facilitated virtual sessions
  • Leadership worksheets and planning tools
  • Vision, values, and mission development process
  • Guided discussion and facilitation
  • Church Alignment Report

Best for:
Churches with volunteer leaders, multiple schedules, or limited travel budgets.

Hybrid Alignment Process (Recommended)

Investment: $3,995

plus travel

Our most comprehensive option.

A full-day onsite workshop followed by two virtual coaching sessions focused on refining statements, building consensus, and developing implementation strategies.

Includes:

  • Full-day onsite workshop
  • Two 1-hour virtual follow-up sessions
  • Vision, values, and mission refinement
  • Implementation and communication planning
  • Leadership worksheets and planning tools
  • Church Alignment Report

Best for:
Churches seeking both clarity and practical implementation support.

Full-Day Leadership Workshop

Investment: $2,995

A full-day onsite workshop designed to help leadership teams work collaboratively through vision, values, and mission development.

Includes:

  • Full-day onsite facilitation
  • Leadership worksheets and planning tools
  • Vision, values, and mission development process
  • Facilitated leadership discussions
  • Church Alignment Report

Best for:
Churches seeking focused, face-to-face interaction and significant progress in a single day.

Let's Start the Conversation

Whether your church needs to create vision, values, and mission statements for the first time or refine existing statements for a new season of ministry, the Church Alignment Workshop can help your leadership team gain clarity, alignment, and focus.

Contact Jon Byler to learn more or schedule a discovery conversation.

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