Cornerstone Community School — TBG SWOT Meeting helped us on a number of levels
This letter is two-fold. First, the families at Cornerstone Community School would like to thank each and every one of you for investing your time and energy on behalf of our school. The two-and-a-half hours you devoted to us, encouraged and spurred us on to make some difficult, but solid and necessary business decisions.
You graciously and selflessly answered the call at the last Barnabas Group meeting to help a fledgling ministry not only identify their Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, but to capitalize on the positive and overcome the negative. Cornerstone Community School had our homework cut out for us. We were responsible for gathering specific information (financials, who we are, what we do, our Big Question and a shot at our SWOTs). By submitting this information to you prior to our meeting, we were able to jump right into to the urgent and relevant issues at hand.
Based on the suggestions you gave us, CCS has already:
- Downsized the number of teachers for 2007-2008 to realistically support the size of each class.
- Made contact with various people you recommended (i.e. A Ministry offering Scholarships for Christian Education, An experienced fund-raiser for a well known Christian School) We still have more to people to contact.
- Our Administration and School Board led the charge to meet our impending deficit. The Lord provided, and we will start fresh next year. With our new business plan in place, we are certain that our future is bright.
Just hearing the SWOT Team members say at the end of our meeting, “This is not insurmountable, you’re gonna make it,” was exactly what we needed to hear.
Thank you and the SWOT Team for leveraging your wisdom, experience, networks, and resources in order to make a significant impact both in this world and in God's kingdom. You have blessed us mightily!