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The Ultimate Guidebook: The 2025 SAS Board Chair Guidebook

The 2025 Ultimate Guidebook for the SAS Chair is created as a resource tool. Fully implementing a simplified, accountable leadership structure is more than reducing the number of people at the table; it is about changing the work and the conversation at the table. At its core, fully embracing the model of the simplified, accountable leadership structure is really about changing your church’s leadership culture. The Ultimate SAS Chair Guidebook is a digital, fillable pdf document and provides leadership board chairs with convenient templates, reminders, checklists, helpful hints, and updated tools to assist with their duties and responsibilities. Changing leadership culture is a heavy lift; this Guidebook is intended to lighten the load and provide a companion resource to our third edition book, Mission Possible: Simple Structure for Missional Effectiveness.

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The Ultimate SAS Journal: The 2025 SAS Board Member Journal

The 2025 Ultimate SAS Journal for SAS Board Members is created as a resource tool. The Journal will provide leadership board members with convenient templates, reminders, checklists, helpful hints, and updated tools to assist them with their duties and responsibilities. Moving to a simplified structure is one thing, but moving to an accountable leadership model is a huge leadership culture shift. This Ultimate SAS Journal is intended to provide a practical monthly tool for leaders and is a companion resource to our book, Mission Possible: Simple Structure for Missional Effectiveness.

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2025 Small Church SAS Board Chair Guidebook

The 2025 Ultimate Guidebook for the Small Church SAS Chair is created as a resource. The Guidebook provides small church leadership board chairs with convenient templates, reminders,

checklists, helpful hints, and updated tools to assist with their duties and responsibilities. Changing leadership culture is a heavy lift. This Guidebook is intended to lighten the load and provide a companion resource to our book,

Mission Possible For The Small Church.

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Strategic Ministry Planning Guidebook

In the Strategic Ministry Planning Guidebook, you will discover why strategic ministry planning is important. Next you will be guided through the process of preparation, implementation, and the next steps following strategic ministry planning. Templates, suggestions, detailed agendas, checklists, best practices, and supply lists are included to assist you in every step in the process. You will even find a detailed "how to guide" for leading the staff retreat following the strategic planning retreat! This practical guide is jack-packed with detailed information assembled by Kotan who has led countless retreats over the past decade plus. The 35-page digital Guidebook is a perfect companion to Strategy Matters: Your Roadmap for an Effective Ministry Planning Retreat.

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Reflection Journal: A Spiritual Formation & Leadership Development Resource for Leadership Boards

You asked for it and here it is! This 70-page resource is designed for the spiritual formation and leadership development times on the monthly leadership board agenda for a whole year! Starting in January, each month you'll find a spiritual formation topic with reflective questions to help leaders develop more deeply as disciples and spiritual leaders and grow more comfortable sharing in their discipleship journey. For each month you will also find a page to record spiritual formation notes, reflections, and insights. In addition, you'll find an associated leadership development topic to help form and challenge you as a leader. Reflective questions are included to help the group process the information and challenge their thinking. Each month there is a page for leadership development notes, take-aways, and action steps. Each Reflection Journal also includes a 2025 Calendar, information about the author, instructions for how to use the Reflection Journal, and additional note pages.

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Ministry Assessment Toolbox

You will be provided with information, teachings, and tools to add to your existing ministry toolbox. These tools can be used in any ministry setting and are a long term investment for your ongoing leadership development. We are confident that you’ll find these valuable tools to be one of your most-used ministry tools.

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Congregational Gifts Assessment

Ever wonder what your collective congregational gifts are? What are your congregation's prominent skills, spiritual gifts, experience, and talent you've been blessed with to deploy in ministry? This one-stop process makes collecting and analyzing the information simple and easy. Simply provide some church and contact information and you'll receive an email invitation script and link to send to all your congregants to complete. Once the deadline for submission has expired, you will be sent a Congregational Gifts Assessment Summary Report. It's that easy, but the information is priceless!

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Community Conversations & Insights

Are you curious about how to collect invaluable community information to help better understand your context? Would you like to conduct community conversations that inform the best way to deploy your church's gifts and assets to reach new people? Would it be helpful to know how to select a niche demographic to reach that shares some of the same preferences as your congregation? Would you like to place your finger on the pulse of your community to gain insights into the greatest need, gap, or opportunity the community is experiencing? If so, this product meets all those criteria! You will be provided a step-by-step roadmap for the entire process from start to finish.

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Relationship Depot Course

This 12-session course is a comprehensive approach to understanding the vital need your neighbors have for community and relationships and how the church is called to address it. We will dive into these relational issues that span from mental health challenges to parents feeling isolated, the loneliness epidemic, struggling moms, the growing number of unchurched people, and much more. In this course, you'll be guided in a step-by-step process for unearthing valuable information and data about your community and how your church is uniquely and specifically called to address the need and desire for the basic human need of belonging, purpose, and impact. The church is uniquely called and qualified to become a "relationship depot" to connect people and overcome these challenges. This extensive course incorporates the Community Conversations & Insights as well as the Congregational Gifts Assessment for a complete journey of discovery.

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Childcare/Preschool Assessment

The Children's Table Childcare or Preschool Assessment is an analysis by neutral ministry professionals provides a fresh set of eyes, an outside perspective, industry experience with a proven track record, objectivity, and a comprehensive tool box.

Included in the Assessment:

Extensive inquiry of the existing program
Thorough evaluation of resource management, ministry integration, and ministry potential.
Recommendations for areas of improvement
Ratings in primary ministry benefit and values areas of ministry integration, ministry potential, and resource management.
One Hour Consultation to review the Analysis