Tactics 

Model

1. Study church lifecycle data using resources both internal and external to the UMC.
2. Study church “styles” or church archetypes to understand patterns of faith communities.
3. Model (develop archetypes) of our inventory of local churches to better address patterns in local churches.
   1. Reservoir
   2. Lab & Greenhouse
   3. Think Tank
   4. Civic Center
   5. Bridge & Service Outpost
   6. Stable Villiage

Listen

4. Listen to understand local church gifts and challenges
5. Listen to local churches in order to validate and improve our modeling.
6. Listen to local churches in order to document the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to continuance for several churches in each of our core archetypes.

Document

7. Update our archetype models to reflect reality.
8. Document the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to continuance for several churches in each of our core archetypes.

Identify

9. Identify thriving UMC congregations in the Great Northern District.
10. Identify demographics of the surrounding community.
11. Identify demographics of the local membership.

Tooling

1. Create tool sets for local churches, gathering communities, and the district