One Table, One Mission
A planning process where leadership diagnoses and the whole community builds.
Seeds in the ground within sixty days, not a plan on a shelf.
People invest in what they help build.
When a congregation helps shape its vision and mission, people don’t just agree with the plan. They give to it, serve in it and carry it forward. One Table, One Mission brings the whole community to the table from the beginning, so the plan belongs to everyone who has to live it.
It fits your church
The pastor and the congregation read the church together, and members tend the seeds directly.
Pastor, team and congregation each read the church, and staff and members share the tending.
Either track can be facilitated or self-guided.
No one is downstream.
Where all are fed equally. No one eats first, no one eats better.
Where the youngest member’s counsel carries the same weight as the oldest.
Where every voice helps build the plan, from the beginning, not as a final courtesy.
Strategic Seed
The six pillars
Every read (yours, your team’s and the parish’s) covers the same six areas, scored the same two ways.
“Mass here draws me in. I leave more connected to God than when I arrived.”
“I know how this parish serves people beyond its own members.”
“This parish has helped my faith grow in the last year.”
“If I stopped coming, someone here would notice and reach out.”
“I know what is happening at my parish without having to hunt for it.”
“I understand where the money goes, and I trust how it is handled.”
- The Diagnosis. Three to five gaps, with the evidence behind each.
- The Gifts Report. The gifts of pastor, team and congregation, tied to the plan.
- The 60-Day Scorecard. Clear commitments, met or not met.
- The Cultivation Team Playbook. Meeting rhythm and the first sixty days, ready to use.
- The Mission Plan. Written last, from experience, after the first seeds are growing.
Mike Ferrell is a true son of St. Benedict. Over years as a Benedictine oblate and through his work in business and leadership, he has seamlessly integrated Ora et Labora (work and prayer) into his consulting and books.
It begins with a discernment call.
Not a sales call. A conversation about whether this is the right work for your church at this moment. Some pastors finish the call and begin. Some wait a year. Both are good outcomes.
Set Up a Discernment Call