Future Ministry Investment Plan · Sample Community Church
Future Ministry Investment Plan
S5 Invest in Future Ministry — principal deliverable
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Future Ministry Investment Plan — Sample Community Church
S5 Invest in Future Ministry · Provision pillar. Illustrative example of the approved principal deliverable, prepared for leadership review, Quarter ending December 2026.
Church
Sample Community Church (Atlanta, GA)
Module
S5 Invest in Future Ministry
Leadership time
About 8 hours of leadership time
Owner
Executive Pastor
Coach
Leland Rubin
Approval state
Not submitted
Why this deliverable matters
S5 Invest in Future Ministry exists because faithful stewardship is not only about managing what a church needs today, it is about deliberately setting resources aside for the ministry God is calling the congregation toward ten years from now. Facilities age, technology becomes obsolete, staffing needs grow with the congregation, and new capacity — a second service, a renovated children's wing, a expanded counseling ministry — never appears by accident. It appears because leadership decided, years earlier, to fund it on purpose. This module trains leadership to see beyond the current budget year and build a disciplined, transparent process for investing in future ministry capability: facilities, technology, staffing pipelines and the invested reserves that make long-horizon plans possible.
By the end of this module, leadership will have produced a Future Ministry Investment Plan that names a ten-year vision for capacity and calling, establishes a dedicated Future Ministry Fund with a funding formula and governance rules, adopts a written investment policy statement for any invested long-horizon balances, and creates a decision, approval and review process so that every major future-ministry investment is deliberate, documented and revisited on a schedule. This is patient, generational stewardship work, not a single capital campaign.
What leadership will have completed
Leadership will have reviewed current facility, technology and staffing capacity against a ten-year vision; approved a funding formula and governance charter for a Future Ministry Fund; adopted a written, product-neutral investment policy statement for any invested long-horizon balances; and adopted a Future Ministry Investment Plan with a decision-and-review calendar assigning named owners and dates.
Seven Principles curriculum version 1.0 — author-review draft pending Leland Rubin's approval prior to publication. · version 1.0 · status Author Review. Synthetic example content — replace each section with your church's approved language.