00 – Welcome to the Streamline Admin System
Orientation to Mayflower Church's operational playbook — the twelve systems on the Operations shelf, how they fit together, and where to find what. Start here.
Two-Page Plan — Draft April 2026
Adopted by the Servants Council on May 30, 2026.
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MAYFLOWER CHURCH — TWO-PAGE PLAN Page 1: Who We Are • Page 2: What We Do • Draft April 2026 |
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PURPOSE Our deep sense of why. Eternal. Rooted in Scripture. No end date.
To glorify God by knowing Jesus Christ deeply and making Him known faithfully — until He returns or calls us home.
The gospel is true: God reconciles sinners to Himself through the death and resurrection of His Son, and gathers them into a covenant community formed by His Word and sustained by His Spirit. Mayflower has stood on the South Shore for over two centuries to be such a community. By God's grace, we intend to keep being one. |
MISSION Our purpose given a due date. What we are pursuing in this season.
By the end of 2030, Mayflower will be a healthy, doctrinally grounded, multi-generational congregation in Kingston — known for:
We measure progress by the health of our Five Priority Ministries (page 2). |
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TARGET AUDIENCE Who we are specifically called to reach. Specificity sharpens stewardship. We are not trying to be everything to everyone. We are called to reach two groups in particular:
We aim to be a faithful Baptist church that genuinely disciples whoever God brings. |
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VALUES Words and behaviors that describe who we are.
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DISTINCTIVES What makes Mayflower different from other faithful churches in our town and tradition. Mayflower is a confessionally Reformed Baptist, congregationally governed, expositorially preached church that affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention by congregational vote on March 15, 2026. We hold to the historic doctrines of grace and preach through whole books of the Bible. The congregation governs itself under Robert's Rules with elder leadership and deacon service. We operate by a Five Priority Ministries philosophy: we name what we will guard and give every leader explicit permission to say no to anything that would dilute the core. |
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FIVE PRIORITY MINISTRIES (KEYSTONE) The ministries that hold our church together. What would fundamentally change our DNA if they went away. The ordinary channels through which Christ builds His church. When capacity is tight, these are protected first; Missions & Outreach overflows from them.
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PAGE 2 — WHAT WE DO The work that flows from page one, and how we measure whether it is bearing fruit. |
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ACTIVITIES The actual work that flows from page one — the rhythm of our common life.
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| # | PRIORITY MINISTRY | HOW WE KNOW IT'S HEALTHY | WHAT WE MEASURE |
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| 1 | Ministry of the Word |
HEALTH MARKER Sermons faithful to the text, edifying, and applied. The congregation grows visibly in biblical literacy and doctrinal clarity. |
INDICATOR Books of the Bible preached through per 24-month cycle: ____. Equip cohorts run per year: ____. |
| 2 | The Lord's Day Gathering |
HEALTH MARKER Word-shaped, prayerful, warm, on-time, hospitable to first-timers. Support teams run quietly and well. |
INDICATOR Average Sunday attendance vs. target: ____. First-time visitor → second-visit return rate: ____%. |
| 3 | Gospel-Driven Prayer |
HEALTH MARKER Prayer is corporate, gospel-shaped, and dependent — not perfunctory or rushed. |
INDICATOR Church-wide prayer gatherings per year: ____. Formal team meetings opening and closing in substantive prayer: ____%. |
| 4 | Disciple-Making Pathways |
HEALTH MARKER A clear, traceable path from first visit to mature service. People are moving along it, not stuck. |
INDICATOR Members in a BFG or discipleship cohort: ____%. Baptisms per year: ____. New members completing Foundations annually: ____. |
| 5 | Membership & Shepherding Care |
HEALTH MARKER People are known by name, cared for in trouble, and held lovingly accountable. No one falls through the cracks. |
INDICATOR Members assigned to a shepherding team: 100%. Counseling cases handled per year: ____. New-member retention at 18 months: ≥ ____%. |
Indicator baselines and targets (the blanks above) will be filled in after the August 2026 Leadership Summit.
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THE DECISION FILTER Does this clearly strengthen one or more of our Five Priority Ministries — at a realistic cost in time, volunteers, and leadership attention? If not, we will simplify it, rotate it, or pause it. |
Welcome to Mayflower Operations!
Adopted by the Servants Council on May 30, 2026.
Purpose
This shelf is Mayflower Church's operational playbook, organized around sixteen operations systems — the twelve identified in Michael Lukaszewski's Streamline: How To Create Healthy Church Systems, extended with four further Mayflower operations books. It is a living resource — pages start as overviews and grow into procedures, templates, and decision records as each system matures.
Mission anchor: Building a discipleship community rooted in the knowledge of Christ, driven by faith, empowered to share the Gospel, and committed to welcoming and equipping others in Love and Truth.
How This Shelf Is Organized
- Each of the sixteen numbered books on the Mayflower Church Operations shelf covers one system in the rollout sequence.
- Each book begins with an Overview page using the Principle + Mayflower Practice format, followed by the procedures, templates, and directories that belong to that system.
- Status tags on each page indicate whether the system is Completed, Active, Upcoming, or On Hold.
- Open Questions at the bottom of each page are deliberately unanswered — they mark decisions still to be made.
- This Welcome book sits first (numbered 00) so it is always the starting point for someone new to the Streamline system.
The Sixteen Systems
- 01 – Priority Ministries — the ministries we guard, and what we say no to.
- 02 – Program Evaluation — the recurring framework for evaluating ongoing programs.
- 03 – Event Evaluation — the process and template for evaluating individual events.
- 04 – Master Calendar Integration — the annual calendar, its planning process, and the downstream Communications and Operations calendars.
- 05 – Financial Plan & Generosity — annual generosity plan, language, and giving touchpoints.
- 06 – Organization Chart & Access — who serves where, reporting relationships, and how leaders access the tools they need.
- 07 – Role Clarity & Standardization — the 31 standard Position Descriptions.
- 08 – Hiring Process (Non-Pastoral) — the workflow for hiring non-pastoral staff.
- 09 – Decision-Making Framework — thresholds, authority by threshold, and escalation exceptions.
- 10 – Employee Handbook — time, communication, confidentiality, and conduct expectations for staff.
- 11 – Performance Evaluations — annual evaluation structure and template.
- 12 – Leadership Transitions — short-term absence plans, emergency coverage, and long-term transition principles.
- 13 – Church Safety — RSO attendance policy, mandated reporter policy, and volunteer screening for service with minors.
- 14 – Management Plan & Annual Goals — annual goal-setting templates and the active fiscal-year plan.
- 15 – Church Discipline — formative and corrective discipline, the biblical process, and restoration.
- 16 – Funeral Operations — the procedure for funerals and memorial services.
Rollout Status
The phased rollout is complete. The Servants Council adopted the full manual wholesale on May 30, 2026 (see Adoption above). The table below is retained as the April 2026 build snapshot.
| Week | System | Status | Due |
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| 1 | Priority Ministries | Completed | — |
| 2 | Program Evaluation | Completed | — |
| 3 | Event Evaluation | Completed | — |
| 4 | Master Calendar Integration | Completed | — |
| 5 | Financial Plan & Generosity | Active | Apr 22, 2026 |
| 6 | Organization Chart & Access | Active | Apr 19, 2026 |
| 7 | Role Clarity & Standardization | Active | Apr 22, 2026 |
| 8 | Hiring Process (Non-Pastoral) | Upcoming | Apr 29, 2026 |
| 9 | Decision-Making Framework | Upcoming | May 6, 2026 |
| 10 | Employee Handbook | Upcoming | May 13, 2026 |
| 11 | Performance Evaluations | Upcoming | May 20, 2026 |
| 12 | Leadership Transitions | Upcoming | May 27, 2026 |
Source Material
- Michael Lukaszewski — Streamline: How To Create Healthy Church Systems
- Mayflower Constitution and Bylaws