The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a plan--and you’re part of it! This plan is called I Will Go and it includes all of us. So you might be wondering, “How can I get involved?” Tiffany, a church planter in the United States talked with Mike Ryan, a Church leader involved in setting up the I Will Go plan, to get his input.
“I'm so excited. I love this theme—I Will Go.”
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a plan--and you’re part of it! This plan is called I Will Go and it includes all of us. I Will Go offers something for the whole church—local churches, missions, conferences, unions, divisions, the General Conference, and institutions. It’s a tool to help the Church be more focused and effective in answering God’s call for us to witness to unreached people around the world.
Research data was used to identify objectives for the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church to accomplish its mission. The I Will Go objectives focus on three important areas: mission, spiritual growth, and leadership; each one has key performance indicators, or KPIs, which help us know if we are meeting the objectives.
You can go directly to the I Will Go website and find all of the objects and key performance indicators.
These were created to give us tangible goals and action plans for sharing the gospel with the world, so that we can mobilize our resources to more effectively reach the unreached.
So you might be wondering, “How can I get involved?” Tiffany, a church planter in the United States talked with Mike Ryan, a Church leader involved in setting up the I Will Go plan, to get his input.
“The question is, How can people become involved?”
“Right, that's a huge part. It’s like, Well, this is great for the World Church. How can I get involved as a church member?”
“It's a great question. I'll tell you right now, the right answer to that question will make the difference in this church. It really will. We should each take that plan and look at those KPIs.”
“God gives us all different gifts. You have certain gifts, I have gifts, every member has different gifts. You take that plan and you look through those KPIs, those key performance indicators, and you just fall on your knees and say, Lord, where do you want me to fit in here?”
“This is where the church has said we needed to go, but obviously just saying, That's where I need to go with no plan to get there won’t work.”
“I think it is a determination in the mind that, I'm going to do something. Maybe for the first time in my life, but I'm going to do something.”
“If a person makes that commitment and finds a little niche, you find that you will not only be involved in one KPI, soon you'll be involved in many of them.”
This is more than a strategic plan. It’s a mission-focused tool based on real data and the Great Commission. Its value and impact will be determined as the Church works together as a worldwide team of brothers and sisters, under the power of the Holy Spirit.
“I think it's awesome that our church is not just saying, Hey, we just hope the Lord will come and whatever happens happens.”
“I believe that the Lord works through us. He works through strategies. He's part of these meetings. He’s leading in our minds with things like, What can we do? Where are the areas that we’re weak in? Where are the areas that we can grow?”
“I'm so excited. I love this theme—I Will Go. I think it's perfect for the next 5 years and these three areas that you mentioned—mission, spiritual growth, and church leadership are great areas to focus on.”
