The Plan
To Strengthen Churches | To Support Churches | To Start Churches
To Strengthen Churches
The first goal of Northeast Vision is to strengthen the existing churches in the Northeast Corridor and to especially focus on strengthening the pastors of those churches, and their families.
Some of the ways we intend to strengthen churches, pastors and their families, and other Christian workers in the Northeast Corridor are:
- Spiritual encouragement
- Successful Northeast ministry ideas extended and taught to those looking for them
- Sharing facilities with other churches for special events
- Seeking out anointed and qualified full-time workers to connect with Northeast churches
- Sending laborers to physically assist other churches with their building projects
- Soulwinning teams to assist with locating good prospects for pastors
- Supplying preachers for churches that need long term pulpit supply
- Supplication to God for church leaders, their families, and their ministries
- Sabbatical opportunities (helping provide brief seasons of rest for Christian workers)
- Standing with people during trials (illness, church problems, etc.)
- Staff training for full-time and lay-worker staff
- Social activities to help men and ministries fellowship and forge relationships
- Special needs offerings
- Sacrificial giving of supplies and resources to churches in need (vehicles, chairs, etc.)
- School sports programs coordinated and improved
- Secure counseling for pastors and their families when needed
- Solutions for overcoming difficult ministry obstacles
- Summer interns linked with churches
- Stress reduction taught and encouraged
- Stabilizing ministries and families when a pastor or staff member has fallen
- Surveying church ministries for the purpose of offering improvement ideas
- Sponsoring one-day Northeast Vision Leadership Advances in their areas
- Sympathy and empathy given during times of bereavement
- Sustaining men and their ministries who are discouraged and close to quitting
- Speaking the truth in love to men or ministries who wear down and begin to drift
- Securing loans for new building projects or major renovations
- Substituting preachers and ministry workers because of last minute emergencies
- Strong counsel and mentoring from senior pastors to younger pastors, when desired
- Successful resources and ministry tools designed and provided for individual ministries
- Suggestion forums – giving men and ministries an opportunity to influence others
- Systematic tracking of good men and their ministries so that no one feels alone