Hi everybody. Welcome back. This is Dr Hunt again, and we're still in the midst  of how to develop a ministry board, and we're in Phase four. We did phase  three. Phase three was refinement. Phase three was refinement. And one of the  highlights from Phase Three was looking to see if there were any opportunities  that became available that you might want to broaden your scope, or you might  want to pursue. And so that was a highlight from phase three. It's really looking  at things and fine tuning your organization, fine tuning your ministry. So now  we're in Phase four. Phase four. Phase four is stability. Phase four is stability. All  right. Phase four. Okay. We had a little hiccup, but just stay with me. Phase four, Board development, phase four, stability, stability. So what the stability means?  It means that one of your goals as a ministry, as a as a board, should be to have a sense that you know you're here to stay, that you understand who you are as  an organization, that you are ready for even greater things. And so when you  feel like you reset that phase, you need to continue to assess where you are in  the slide that we have before us, it says, you know, we actually need to continue to evaluate. This is a form of continuous improvement, I should say, so you  continue to evaluate the internal environment, the external environment. You  look at your strengths and your weaknesses. This should be something that you  do all the time, not just once a year, but you should be looking at how you're  doing. You should be looking at your budget. You should be looking at a certain  dashboard that talks about your performance, who you're serving, all those  things to see how you might improve. Look at your policies, look at your  procedures and your processes, and use the strategic planning period as a tool  to get better. And so if you have a strategic planning tool, you know, maybe you  do it once a year, maybe you do it every three years, but you should always be  going back to that tool, looking at those operational and board governance  things that really affect where you are, to make sure that you're not only  sustaining where you are, but you're getting better. So the goal is to get better.  The goal is to improve, not just to sustain you are in the phase where you want  your board, you want your ministry, to perform at a high level, and the way you  do it is that you make sure that you're constantly, continually improving, and that you're evaluating where you are. So evaluate the internal environment, you  know your capabilities, your strengths and your weaknesses, and also  externally, you know what are, who are your competitors? What's going on in the economy, what's going on in other ministries. Are you in a place where everyone has a food pantry in one square, one square mile area, everyone has a food  pantry? Do you need to diversify? Do something else? So continue to look at  those things as a board to make sure that you're not only sustaining but you're  performing at a high level. And that's something that really characterizes  relationship, collaboration between the staff and the board, particularly the board chair and the CEO. So we're seeking stability, but we're also seeking further  success. So that's phase that's more development, phase four, stability. I hope 

this helped. I hope you got something out of it, and I hope you to see you next  time. We'll be going into the last phase, phase five, and I hope you'll join me for  that segment. Until then, God bless you, and God keep you until we meet again.



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