Napkin-Sketch Strategies

Thanks for clicking through from the Dream Big Workbook to this support resource. In the workbook I refer to your team drawing a disciple-making strategy napkin sketch. The strategy of your church is a picture that shows how you accomplish the mission on the broadest level.

A simple napkin sketch is a weapon to fight the prevailing and broken models of church.

Your napkin sketch is a map with simple, easy, and obvious next steps. It clarifies what you do "at church" and "in life" to keep church programming less complicated.

It's fun to share with others!

I will be uploading some videos of strategy napkin sketches on Wednesday, March 15. Until then, read this great article on the power of a napkin sketch.

About Will

Would you like to fall in love with ministry again?

I want you and your ministry to experience the benefits of stunning, God-given clarity. As a pastor turned vision coach, I’ve worked with an unprecedented variety of churches from growing mega-churches and missional communities, to mainline revitalization and church plants. I started several interconnected organizations that help the church embody the movement that Jesus founded. My visionary planning tools, the Vision Frame and the Horizon Storyline are used by thousands of churches every year through my calling to raise up other consultants and trainers. In 2004, I founded Auxano, which I sold to LifeWay and continued to lead until 2020. In 2014, I created Younique to deliver gospel-centered life design through the church. It is now the world's only comprehensive, open-source life plan system.

In 2023, I founded Run Free as my official team-based consulting shop. We deliver the most innovative Vision Framing experiences available to church teams through the "Pivvot Process" and to network/denominational leaders through the "Denominee Process." We also offer team coaching to church leaders using the "Performance Practices" of meta-performance executive coaching.

I've written seven books: Future Church, Church Unique, Younique, Clarity Spiral, God Dreams, Innovating Discipleship, and Building Leaders. I enjoy speaking about clarity, calling, disciple-making, and vision. It's all about helping one another do more than we can imagine. I co-locate in Houston and Chile with my wife, Romy, and the last of my four children, Poema.

If you are interested in Run Free's consulting offerings or want to discuss getting a LifePlan, just reach out to set up a conversation.

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