The Vision2 - International Pentecostal Holiness Church
The Vision2 - International Pentecostal Holiness Church
The Vision2 - International Pentecostal Holiness Church
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Target2000. 1984-1997<br />
In 1983, Presiding Bishop Leon Stewart gave B.E. Underwood (Executive Director of World Missions)<br />
and Dr. Vinson Synan (Executive Director of EVUSA) release to develop a growth strategy for the IPHC.<br />
During the Summer of 1983, the Fuller <strong>Church</strong> Growth Institute was<br />
contracted to help us with a self-study to identify hinderances to growth.<br />
Both efforts, the Fuller Selfstudy<br />
and the Target2000<br />
strategy were approved by<br />
the General Board of<br />
Administration in the<br />
summer of 1984. <strong>The</strong> rest<br />
is history.<br />
History indicates that<br />
Target2000 was the catalyst<br />
that led to two decades of<br />
record-setting growth. <strong>The</strong><br />
chart below shows<br />
quadrennial growth from<br />
1940 to the present. <strong>The</strong><br />
blue columns are pre-<br />
T2000; the pink columns<br />
show growth results after<br />
the initiation of Target2000<br />
growth strategies.<br />
On a cold, snowy week end in December of that same year, six men (three<br />
from World Missions and three from EVUSA) met at the Shangri-la<br />
Conference Center in northeast Oklahoma for a time of fasting and prayer.<br />
Out of that meeting came a document that would radically change the future<br />
of the IPHC. That document recommended a vision name, goals and<br />
strategy for the church as it approached the end of the millennium.<br />
Average quadrennial growth<br />
pre-T2000 was 7,876;<br />
average growth after T2000 was 25,895 new members.<br />
Mission21. 1997-2009<br />
With the approach of the end of the millennium, the Target2000 Task Force<br />
realized that the purpose and function of T2000 was coming to an end. In<br />
1996, the task force began working on a new name and document to carry<br />
the vision forward into the first decade of the 21st century.<br />
After prayer and discussion over several meetings, T2000 emerged as<br />
Mission21. <strong>The</strong> document at the right became the strategy and the image<br />
above was adopted as its official logo.<br />
<strong>The</strong> logo has multiple symbols significant to our church. <strong>The</strong> first is the name:<br />
Prepared by Joe Iaquinta 2