Meeting with Rick Stauder was a treat. He [Rick Stauder] Absolutely. My official title and determining what can be accomplished
shared a wealth of experience earned through is Tech Director at our broadcast campus, within that box, we have a discussion that’s led
touring, handling tons of installs, and working which is the East Bradenton campus. I’m also by how we believe God works in and through
at churches doing significant work across involved with central services, which supports us at our church. It helps us clarify our priorities
denominational lines, including Grace Church and resources all the Bayside campuses. This so we can budget and steward well. But should
(St. Louis), Bethany World Prayer Center is an intense time of transformation for us. We a budget drive the design criteria? Instead, we
(Baton Rouge), Perimeter Church (Atlanta), have some construction projects going on think that mission, vision, and values should
Grace Baptist (Knoxville), and The Crossing right now, and we just launched our newest drive the design criteria, which then drives the
(Brandon, FL). He currently serves as the tech campus. We’re completely redoing how we budget conversation. Budget may limit available
and broadcast director at Bayside Community broadcast sermon messages and content. options, but now we’re considering the impact
Church 8-campus, Most of what we’re doing results from trying to of our decisions as we move forward. That
12,000+ congregation recognized as one of align the tech world with our church’s mission, way we don’t run into the, “Well, we spent
the 30 fastest growing churches in the United vision, and values. $200,000, and you’d think that we’d be able
(Bradenton,
FL),
an
States. His compiled wealth of knowledge is
to...” disappointment.
incredible. But what inspires me is his passion [WM] Sounds like significant changes. Tell me for clarifying mission to maximize ministry and more about aligning with mission, vision, and I suspect that the Church in North America
an intense commitment to set up volunteers for values. How is that different from being budget wastes a huge amount of money by simply
success and growth. driven? throwing money at projects rather than by
[WM] Hey, Rick, thank you for taking time to [Rick] It doesn’t matter whether your church share a bit of yourself with us. You’ve been here has sixty-five people or sixty-five hundred, at Bayside Community Church for over a year sure, budget is almost always a factor. But In general, the Church works hard to be thrifty.
now. Could you give us a peak at what that being driven by mission, vision, and values But often the decision makers make decisions
looks like? means that early on in the decision-making in the absence of information. Sometimes they
process, rather than throwing out an amount don’t know the questions to ask or who to trust
making choices driven by mission, vision, and
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values.
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