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The Smarter process re-imagines what the church can be now and in the future
The Smarter Proccess
Youth Retention, Relationships, & Training Strategies
Increase time spent with each youth, use military academy style peer mentors, assign adult mentors in areas like entrepenuership, place youth in jobs with other members, actively reduce cliques, train all leaders in group dynamics, merge undersized groups, divide oversized groups, increase activities, reduce boredome, increase workload to help the church, build self esteem, correct character issues.
Smarter Adult Retention, Relationships, & Support Strategies
Use military expertise to structure multiple layers of groups, care systems, and accountability networks. Change staffing roles to reflect community building priorities. Flatten leadership roles and empower members with meaningful roles. Add activities and provide events for all holidays. Create predictable actions for all members who experience sickness, financial crisis, family struggles, as well as special days like birthdays. Provide continueing education in marriage, parenting, Christian heritage, apologetics, cultural issues, and political action.
Visitor Assimilation, Motivation, & Care
Assign hosts and sponsors to guide new members into a successful transition and friend creation. Motivate new members by providing robust introduction to Christian heritage and visionn for the future. Clearly define expectations, rewards, and an attractive value proposition. Manage groups so that they can maintain critical mass for friendships but not grow beyond the ability for people to interact.
Family Support, Training, & Activities
Maintain a system that trains youth early in solid family skills and sets a strong proof for heterosexual monogamy. Encourage events that bring together potential spouses during latter teenage and young adults years. Organize church activities around youth development and employ youth paired with adults to care for the church and member needs. Continue marriage and parenting training for young couples and help them survive vulnerable time periods. Offer employment placement and emphasize congregation networking for jobs.
Christian Education, Schools, & Colleges
Integrate curriculum that produces a strong Christian philosophy and vision for global strategy. Avoid credentialing incentives and funding that dilutes the mission. Foster environments that promote potential marriages by grouping young adults. Integrate marriage and parenting expectations atnd training. Offer vocational training, leadership training, and practical courses for ministers. Provide MBA level classes at a graduate level. Seminaries distinguish those trained for theology from those destined to be practitioners.
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