The purpose of a Strategic Vision Team is to inspire a shared vision around God’s preferred future of your faith community that encompasses home and congregational life as well as online settings and engagement with the local and global community. Vision Teams keep the visioning process in front of the congregation by sharing stories and next steps related to the 4-step visioning process that includes:

1. Forming the vision team.
2. Reviewing what's present and real.
3. Rethinking what's possible.
4. Reinventing a new way of being using a strategic road map.

“A Vision Team is a small, cohesive group within an organization that provides leadership throughout the transformation process. It's guided by a capable leader who builds a cohesive team, positions its members for maximum impact, monitors progress, reflects on results, and celebrates short-term wins.”

In addition to participating in team meetings, each member may be asked to oversee or manage a specific phase, stage or project related to the team.  Listed below are some common tasks that are assigned to team members:
Chair/Meeting Convener:

• Serve as primary spokesperson for the team unless another person is assigned this task.
• Build and lead powerful meeting agendas that often includes community building, reporting on recent projects, making decisions, assigning new tasks, and learning together.
• Take meeting meeting notes; share notes with team members or post in shared drive.
• Follow up with project coordinators or people who have been assigned tasks.
• Monitor the dynamics and capacities of individual team members.

Researchers/Report Compilers

• Compile short reports (in bulleted formats) and share with team members.
• Reports often include summaries of Leadership Surveys, Congregational surveys, Community interviews, Community Demographics Reports. Local church leader reports, Asset Maps, etc. Reports are often merged into a Congregation & Community Profile Report that shared with members who participate in the visioning retreat.
• Some teams also invite team members to read books, articles, and blogs related to the visioning tasks.

Congregational Communicator

• Create short articles and posts that are shared at leadership meetings, e-newsletters, and social media sites.  The most common initial posts are highlighting the vision team members (include a photo), sharing team member roles, key learnings and insights from recent reports, recent decisions made, next steps, and how members can support the process.

Vision Retreat Coordinator (s)

• Coordinate the logistics of hosting a vision retreat for staff, Board, and other leaders. 
• Coordinate the production of the Retreat Handbook.
• Send pre-retreat and post-retreat updates and inquiries to retreat participants.

Other projects are assigned as needed, based on the gifts and time other leaders have during the various phases of the visioning process.