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Our Strategy and Our Purpose Goals

Offer Support to Churches

We help churches clarify their vision, plan their growth, balance and improve their programs, find pastors and staff, train their leaders, solve problems, resolve conflicts, find and build facilities.

At least 90% of our congregations having vision statements that reflect the Great Commandment and Great Commission principles.

Reinforce Church Leaders

We provide encouragement, training, counsel, and support for our pastors, staff, lay leaders, and their families.  Growing churches require growing leaders.

Assist in training 25% of Associational church leaders annually in leadership development.

Assist in Church Planting

We assist our churches reproduce themselves by consulting sponsor churches, providing resources for new churches, and by targeting areas that need more churches.  We want to measure the strength of our churches by their sending capacity, not their size.

Enlist twenty churches who will sponsor new church starts.

Network Church Ministries

We respond to the growing diversity of needs of our county.  Each of our congregations have strengths and unique ministries that the rest of our churches can benefit from.  By sharing our ministry strengths, our churches complement each other rather than compete.  Help provide world wide information for mission involvement.

All of our churches will have electronic mail to enable us to network together.  Help cluster church leaders together in areas of support and like ministries.

Grow in Fellowship Together

We encourage each other in the Lord.  The New Testament clearly teaches that God honors and blesses unity in fellowship.   Prayer partner relationships with leaders and churches will enhance a strong bond of love and concern.

At least 75% of our congregations participating in a fellowship and prayer relationship with other congregations in our association and participating in our annual meeting to see how God is working through our ministry in Orange County.

Enhance the Witness of Southern Baptists in Orange County

We demonstrate Christian action to our county by responding to local disasters in the name of Christ, by presenting a positive witness to the media, and by organizing countywide events and advertising.

At least 90% of churches participating in a partner relationship with our association by making local missions a financial priority with at least 5% of their undesignated offerings.  At least 10% of our membership involved in marketplace evangelism daily.

  Orange County Southern Baptist Association
250 North Golden Circle, Suite 104
Santa Ana, CA 92705
714-547-5409
Fax 714-547-5324
E-Mail Doyle Braden
E-Mail Ellis Pitman
E-Mail Brad Sprague