What We Offer

Synodal Consulting offers support in the following areas:

We can tailor any of these areas to suit the needs of your community. Contact us for a complimentary,
initial 60-minute consultation.

Planning for Mission

Development of sustainable vision, mission and goals with stakeholder engagement.

“Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity.”
– Proverbs 21:5

Guidance in shaping your vision in alignment with your values and context.

Identifying and managing key stakeholders to be engaged throughout your planning.

Establishing clear, achievable goals, with risk, resourcing and success indicators.

Ensuring honest review and development of ongoing, sustainable strategies.

Leadership Support

Accompanying and developing leadership teams and
offering best practices.

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

Offering honest assessment of current team strengths and growth areas.

Identifying leadership styles, gifts and team dynamics and clarifying purpose.

Ensuring engagement, transparency & accountability of community served.

Suitable for leadership teams, boards, councils & management bodies.

Community Engagement

Ensuring community investment in vision, mission
and goal setting.

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
– Mother Teresa

Identification of key stakeholder groups and the level of engagement required.

Developing listening and consultation strategies appropriate to each group.

Offering facilitation for focus groups, synodal processes, conferences and planning.

Provision of tools such as surveys, reports and qualitative feedback.

Project Management

Offering leadership and management of consultations, conferences and other projects.

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
– African Proverb

Offering support as project lead to achieve your vision.

Engagement of project team and stakeholder group.

Development of project plan, risk management & resourcing.

Implementation, review and next steps.

Ministry Training

Offering discernment, ministry development
and strong support structures.

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin

Development of clear policies, guidelines and procedures.

Offering discernment, accreditation and appointment support.

Support structures including risk & safeguarding.

Sustainability practices such as leadership transition.

Discipleship Formation

Providing formation and identifying gifts
in missionary discipleship.

Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realised in people’s lives.
– Soren Kierkegaard

Adult enrichment style formation, in shared wisdom settings.

Gift identification sessions or renewal days.

Reflections and retreats on a variety of themes styled for your group.

Review of how vision, leadership & ministry aligns with discipleship.

We can tailor any of the above areas to suit the needs of your community.

Please contact us for a complimentary, initial 60-minute consultation.