Chapter Building Resources

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Welcome all who are committed to chapter building and growth! This page provides resources, articles and case studies to help you get excited about the possibility of growing your InterVarsity chapters. Note: please be sure to bookmark this page in your browser. At this time, there are few other references for finding it again.

If you’re a student or faculty member on a campus without an InterVarsity chapter, see the Chapter Planting Resources page. You can learn more about InterVarsity by checking out our About Us page, visiting our new site for students, StudentSoul.org and by reading stories in our Student Leadership journal archives.

NEW! Jump to 2009 Spring Meetings Building and Planting Track breakout session resources

Primary and supplemental chapter building resources
for staff and coaches

• Chapter Building Manual, version 1.0 by Val Gordon, Jay Anderson, Jim Marshall and others. PDF format. This is the premier version (June 2008) of the training manual for staff who are building chapters. It offers articles, ideas and tips for assessing your chapter and for planning chapter growth strategies. Note: Permission for staff to print hard copies locally is now included in the table of contents. A typo has been fixed on page 9.09 and the two chart pages following. Those with hard copies of version 1.0 can print “printer-pages” 7 and 150-152 in the pdf file and replace the existing binder pages.

• Growth Matters: Numbers Count: Biblical reflections on Numerical Growth by Daniel J. Denk. We are in a time of transition within InterVarsity with regard to growth and numbers. This paper examines the basis for valuing growth and numbers in our ministry culture.

• NEW: Chapter Building Polarity: People vs. Structure by Doug Schaupp. This polarity exercise used at NISET 2009 explores the tension between developing missional Christians (people) and building strong ministry community (structure).

• NEW: Six Layers of Chapter Building Leadership by Doug Schaupp. Six crucial ingredients to leading a growing witnessing community. Presented at NISET 2009.

• Chapter Building Resources by Rich Lamb. (Annotated list with links to other good chapter building papers on the Ministry Exchange.)

• “Change Dynamics” application papers by Scott Hall:
  How to Lead Students into a Chapter Building Vision. Applying Doug McConnell’s concept of “holy dissatisfaction” to campus groups.
  Trojan Christian Fellowship Case Study: Becoming a Mustard Seed Community. A wonderful foundation does not a thriving, all-campus-engaging ministry make!
  Change Process Case Studies. Two campus case studies to help you put the “Change Dynamics” model to work.

• Taking a community college from 30 to 80 by Jeremy Stephens. (Good advice for both planting and building.)

• Recognizing and Awakening Missional Christians on Campus by Chris Nichols. Word format.

• Chapter Building Forum (Note: For InterVarsity staff only. if you’re not already also logged into the InterVarsity staff section, you will need to log in again and will be taken to the forums page. Choose the Chapter Building forum.)

• Updated version: Coaching for Kingdom and Campus Results by Jim Lundgren. Initially created for the Planting Cohort coaches, this is actually a good general coaching manual. Links to the printable forms in the last section (Worksheets) can be found here. Use the online form Coaching Log W.09 for emailing monthly reports.

 
NEW!  2009 Spring Meetings — Chapter Planting and Building seminar and breakout session presentations and handouts
Below are copies of the handouts and presentations used in various seminars and breakouts during the March 30 – April 3, 2009, Spring Meetings track on Chapter Planting and Building. These are draft documents and working papers.

Pre-Meetings Guided Retreat

Pre-Meetings guided retreat materials from Doug Stewart

• Retreat Guide for Spring Meetings, March 30-31, 2009.

• Other handouts:
  Abraham: God’s Friend and the Father of All Who Believe.
  Resilient People Foresee the Great Questions of Life’s Passage. by Gordon MacDonald. Excerpt from A Resilient Life by Gordon MacDonald.
  Pressing On Toward the Goal. Retreat guide centered in Philippians 3.
  

 
Opening Session, Wednesday, April 1, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Chapter Building and Planting Update — Jim Lundgren, presenter.

• Chapter Building and Planting Update (PPT) (PowerPoint) and Chapter Building and Planting Update (Word) (notes in Word) by Jim Lundgren. Opening session of the Chapter Building and Planting Track.

The Essentials of Planting Chapters — Shawn Young, presenter

• The Essentials of Planting Chapters (PowerPoint) by Shawn Young. Brief intro to the planting model, comparison of leadership team and core group, definition and examples of missional Christians and Stage 2 wave.
  

 
First breakout sessions, Wednesday, April 1, 4:45 – 5:45 p.m., continued Thursday, April 2, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

The 4 R’s: Replanting, Restructuring, Retraining and Redeploying — Marcia Wang and Andrea Thomas, presenters

• Replanting and Restructuring (PPT) by Marcia Wang. Presented on Day 1. Covers how to think through when to replant or restructure, processes and strategies, and assessing the mix of people needed for successful change. PowerPoint.

• Re-deploy or Retrain? (PPT) by Marcia Wang. Presented on Day 2. Covers the attributes needed for planters and replanters, the characteristics of good coaching, thoughts about hiring and staff deployment, benchmarks and stages for growth, and the attitudes needed for successful change. PowerPoint.

• Criteria for Deciding To Replant a Chapter by Marcia Wang. Just having one or more of these criteria may not be a sign of the need to replant the chapter but if several criteria are present then you should seriously consider the need for a replant.

• Replanting and Rebuilding Case Studies by Andrea Thomas. Case studies for use in deciding whether to replant or restructure. Cases include ethnospecific and multiethnic examples.

• A Comparison of the Key Attributes of Chapter Planters, Replanters and Chapter Builders by Marcia Wang. Tool for supervisors to assess staff team members’ replanting skills.

• Replanting Skills Assessment by Marcia Wang. Tool for supervisors to assess staff team members’ replanting skills.

• Coaching Self-Assessment Tool by Marcia Wang. Coaching roles are compared with other supervisor roles and the marks of an effective coach are listed for rating and assessment.

• Diagnostic Tools by various members of the planting and building task forces:
  Diagnostic Stages (a.k.a. Working Chart).
  Diagnostic Chart: Modified, Based on NE Region and Chapter Building Charts.
  FAQs about the Working Chart (Diagnostic Stages Chart).
  Diagnostic Tool to Identify Fellowship Stage.

• See also the Change Dynamics application papers by Scott Hall linked to in the first section above.

 
Creating a Missional Culture: The Overlay Strategy for Chapter Growth (in groups of 20-80 students) — Val Gordon, presenter

• Overlay Strategy: Overview and Overlay Strategy: Phases of Leading Change by Val Gordon. Two handouts in one document.

• The Overlay Strategy: Growing Chapters from 30-80 by Leading Culture Change by Val Gordon. The overlay models retains the basic campus chapter while moving toward a missional vision, achieving cultural change and revising structures as needed. Features UNH as a case model.

 
Helping Mid-to-Large Chapters Grow (80-250 students) — Doug Schaupp, presenter

• Rethinking how we Cast Vision on Campus by Doug Schaupp with Ryan Pfeiffer. This paper describes the UC San Diego experience and their sense of mission and vision.

• Building Momentum in the Northwest Region by Kim Porter and Doug Schaupp. How an RD and a growth coach partnered for growth.

• Building Momentum for BCM Growth by Doug Schaupp. How our region transformed our BCM Conference into campus growth.

• Growing Chapters 80 and Up (PowerPoint) by Doug Schaupp. Bringing a missional mindset into large chapters. How Jesus turned new believers into missional witnesses to his transforming power. PowerPoint file.

• Growing Chapters 80 and Up (seminar notes) by Doug Schaupp. Companion notes to the PowerPoint presentation.

• Eight Stages of Growth: a Strategy for Chapters 80 and up by Doug Schaupp with input from Ryan Pfeiffer and Jim Lundgren. This paper explores eight stages of chapter building and growth. Doug would love feedback and dialogue.
  

 
Second set of breakout sessions, Thursday, April 2, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Coaching for Growth — Marcia Wang and Jim Lundgren, presenters

• Missional Coaching (PPT) by Jim Lundgren and Marcia Wang. Includes sections on Introduction to Coaching, Coaching the Results Gap, Feedback and Confrontation. PowerPoint.

• Feedback and Confrontation (PPT) (PowerPoint) and Feedback and Confrontation (Word) (notes in Word) by Jim Lundgren. AD coaching tips and discussion. Presented in the 2009 Spring Meetings seminar “Coaching for Growth.”

• Coaching Analysis: Learning from the Gap by Marcia Wang. This paper discusses ways to identify unsatisfactory results and possible causes, performance and behavior that may have contributed to the unsatisfactory results.

• Case Study: Coaching Sara through the Results Gap by Marcia Wang. Case study for use with the above paper, “Coaching Analysis: Learning from the Gap.”

• Coaching Self-Assessment Tool by Marcia Wang. Coaching roles are compared with other supervisor roles and the marks of an effective coach are listed for rating and assessment.

• Communication Skills for Coaches adapted by Marcia Wang from various sources. Brief outline of communications facts and skills.

• Polarity: Healthy Salaries – Balanced Budgets (PPT) (PowerPoint) by Jim Lundgren. Polarity diagram discussion of FD, budgets, the value of focus and the price of neglect.

 
Identifying, Hiring and Training Successful Chapter Planters and Builders — Chris Nichols and Jimmy Long, presenters

• Identifying, Hiring and Training Successful Chapter Planters and Builders (PPT) (PowerPoint) by Jimmy Long and Chris Nichols. Explores changes in perspective on hiring staff for planting and building in the Blue Ridge and New England regions.

 
How to Train Your Staff for Growth in Chapters 20-80 (Overlay Model part 2) — Val gordon and Doug Schaupp, presenters

• Verbal presentation only. Material presented in the previous session Creating a Missional Culture: The Overlay Strategy for Chapter Growth (in groups of 20-80 students) may be helpful.

 
Growth Matters: Numbers Count — Dan Denk, presenter

• Growth Matters: Numbers Count: Biblical reflections on Numerical Growth by Daniel J. Denk. We are in a time of transition within InterVarsity with regard to growth and numbers. This paper examines the basis for valuing growth and numbers in our ministry culture.

• Growth Matters: Numbers Count: Seminar Discussion Paper by Daniel J. Denk. Companion to the above paper, used for discussing theological and practical implications of the paper.
  

Morning Bible Study Sessions

• Isaiah 61: Anticipating Good Things from God by Andrea Thomas. April 1 morning Bible study session.

• Annotated list of Sketches of Leadership: sorted by topic and sketch number by Rich Lamb. This is an indispensable list with embedded MX links.

• The Chapter Planting Resources Page is another landing page which gathers MX resources about chapter planting.

• Watch this space for more articles, case studies and stories about chapter building

 
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