Don’t Just Talk About Mission-Act With Passion! By Susan Beaumont
Don’t Just Talk About Mission-Act With Passion!
By Susan Beaumount
Congregations waste precious time forming mission statements that fail to inspire action. Writing a mission statement produces clarity, but rarely generates energy. It’s time to move beyond mission and start focusing on the passion that compels us to make a specific difference.
We often think of an individual as having a vocation and an organization as having a mission. Religious organizations have both a mission and a vocational calling. They are related to one another but they are not the same thing. A mission explains, but a vocation inspires.
Susan Beaumont was one of the 2017 Annual Conference Keynote speaker.