Policy Review & Development
LCSM10 Governance Clarification Process
Minimum Investment: $2,250
This consulting engagement provides a structured review of your church’s existing written policies and assists leadership in clarifying and strengthening them, and in drafting new policies where needed.
What This Engagement Includes:
• Review of all existing written policies and bylaws
• Identification of policy gaps and ambiguity
• Evaluation of enforceability and authority clarity
• Structured leadership questionnaires to uncover unwritten practices
• Clarification of decision boundaries
• Drafting or revision of policies where needed
Participation Includes:
Senior Pastor
Board members
Key leadership staff
No congregation member survey is included in this process.
If necessary, a short confidential leadership survey may be deployed to identify informal or unwritten operating practices.
Unwritten policy is still policy, it simply lacks protection.
Process Overview:
The average completion time for this process is thirty days
• Governance document submission and review
• Leadership clarification questionnaire
• Identification of written and unwritten policy
• Written Policy Evaluation Summary
• Drafting and revision support
• Final governance clarification review
Work is conducted primarily through a shared Google document, with scheduled clarification calls as needed. This is an email-based system.
Deliverables:
At the conclusion of this process, your church will possess:
• A written Policy Review Summary
• Clear identification of governance gaps
• Revised or newly drafted policies where necessary ( up to 10 new policy statements in two separate management areas).
• Defined authority boundaries
• Structured recommendations for ongoing governance discipline
Additional Policies may be reviewed or created through the retainer service as a benefit to completing this service.
This engagement is intended for leadership teams ready to strengthen authority clarity, reduce operational ambiguity, and protect long-term organizational integrity.
Policy is not bureaucracy.
It is stewardship.