This document discusses the life cycle of a church and different leadership types needed at each stage. It identifies South Shore Community Church as currently being in a consolidating stage. The leadership types discussed include the Catalyzer, Organizer, Operator, Reorganizer, and Super Reorganizer. Each type is suited for different stages of decline or growth. The document signals that next week's topic will be how to create growth cycles and discuss positive and negative feedback loops.

1. Part 2Taking South Shore Community Church to…THE NEXT LEVEL

2. WHAT IS OUR CURRENT LEVEL AS A CHURCH ?

3. Life Cycle of a Church

4. WHERE ARE WE IN 2010 ?ConsolidatingChurchGrowingChurchDecliningChurchEmergingChurchDyingChurch

5. LEADING THROUGH THE DIFFERENT STAGESLeader you have to look out the windshield, not the rearview mirror, to go forward. – James Taylor

6. LEADERSHIP TYPESConsolidatingChurchGrowingChurchDecliningChurchEmergingChurchCATALYZERDyingChurch

7. CATALYZERA Catalytic leader is a person who has the ability to bring something into being that didn’t formerly existIn the business world is called an EntrepreneurThey express ideas in very simple ways2% to 3% of all leaders

8. LEADERSHIP TYPESConsolidatingChurchGrowingChurchDecliningChurchORGANIZERCATALYZERDyingChurch

9. ORGANIZERHas the ability to take a disorderly organization and bring the pieces together maximizing the resources.They are multitaskers that juggle numerous programs, concerns and demands.10% to 15 % of all leaders

10. LEADERSHIP TYPESConsolidatingChurchOPERATORDecliningChurchORGANIZERCATALYZERDyingChurch

11. OPERATORThey like to manage stable congregations by making small changes and maintaining systems at work.They do things correctly rather than doing the correct things. This leader loves reports, meetings and proceduresAn operator maintains or declines a Church but never grows much.75% to 80% of all pastors

12. LEADERSHIP TYPESOPERATORDecliningChurchORGANIZERREORGANIZERCATALYZERDyingChurch

13. REORGANIZERWhen a Church enters in decline this leader is needed to refocus for the future.They are able to please long time members but simultaneously build a new congregation within the old wineskin.5% of all Church Leaders

14. LEADERSHIP TYPESOPERATORORGANIZERREORGANIZERCATALYZERDyingChurchSUPER REORGANIZER

15. SUPER REORGANIZERHas the same skills of the Reorganizer but has the ability to revive things by radical changeRebirth needs desperate measures and this leader is willing to take risks.1% to 2% of all Church Leaders

16. BREAKING THE DECLINING CYCLE

17. RENEWAL

18. CONSTANT RENEWAL

19. WHAT IS OUR CURRENT LEVEL AS A CHURCH ?

20. NEXT WEEK….How to create growth cycles