To Whom It May Concern:

Jack is a man of great integrity and boundless energy. He has been a great asset to the inner workings of First Reformed Church in Byron Center as we seek a “Clear Vision” of God’s calling for our church and its role in West Michigan and seek to better understand the concept of “Leadershift ” within the Church’s organizational structure. Jack’s many gifts of leadership are very evident as we develop a clearly defined vision for the future of Gods Church here at First Reformed in Byron Center.

Randy Huizenga

Vice President of the Consistory

Rev. Jack Lynn                                                                         June 11, 2009
Clear Vision Ministries
916 Pioneer Ave
Holland, MI  49423

Dear Jack,

On behalf of the leadership and strategic planning team at Greenville Community Church, I want to take this opportunity to thank you for the first-rate work you did leading us to a new strategic plan for the church.  We will look back on this as a “watershed phase” that launched us down the path of a clear and compelling mission, vision, values, and strategy.  This undoubtedly will guide us for years to come, and give us an overall vector for the rest of our ministry life, until our Lord returns!

The specific services you provided that proved to be most effective were these:

1. Comprehensive and non-threatening staff assessments that helped us to ensure we had the “right people on the right seats on the bus” to take us to the next level of growth.
2. Helping us define GCC’s mission vs. vision, and compelling us to craft values statements to prioritize the seven to ten ethics we hold in highest regard.
3. Holding us accountable for a maximum of six “mission-critical” foci which we prioritized, defined, and clearly communicated to the staff, lay leadership, and entire congregation.
4. Working alongside our central strategic planning team and strategic focus teams to clarify and craft ministry philosophies and strategies (a view from 30,000 ft) and then drill down to SMART goals and objectives (a view from three feet) to accomplish the overall plan.
5. Giving us helpful guidance and resources for the tweaking, wholesale changing (if needed), and the addition of new strategic initiatives in the future.
6. Helping us choose the right point persons and teams to ensure that the 208 Greenville Community Church Strategic Plan was a working document and not just another pretty but fruitless folder sitting on a shelf somewhere.

The strategic plan has helped us to make intentional staff changes; it has helped us to be very honest and tactical in our general budgeting process; it has helped us to stick with a strategic “to do” list as well as a counterpart “to don’t” list.  In addition, we can attribute the hiring of two key staff members (worship and student pastors) to the effectiveness of the strategic plan.  Both pastors said they were attracted to our church and leadership team because we had taken the time to “do the hard work of strategizing and planning for intentional spiritual and ministry growth.”

Our staff and elder board couldn’t be happier about having the Holy Spirit’s guidance, and a plan on which to lean when making mission critical decisions for the church.  I would be glad to recommend your consulting services to any church leader wise enough to launch such an effective process.  Please have them contact me!

Onward & upward,

Joel A. Heron,
Lead Pastor, Greenville Community Church

  6596 Vining Rd.  Greenville, MI  48838  (616) 225-2105 / FAX (616) 225-2497   gcclink.com

August 10, 2007

To Whom It May Concern,
The purpose of this letter is to recommend Jack Lynn and Clear Vision Ministries to you.  We have been in a consulting relationship with Jack and Clear Vision for the past four months and it has been nothing short of marvelous.  This process has included a full staff and ministry assessment, a technology assessment and upgrade implementation, and involvement in new staff and ministry initiatives.

A man of great faith, character, and integrity, Jack has assessed our ministry with great thoroughness and sensitivity.  He has continually maintained high regard and respect for our leadership teams while appropriately challenging us.  He has prayed with us, learned from us, stretched us, and is helping us become a more faithful Church in response to the gospel of Jesus Christ.  One of the greatest compliments I could give to Jack is “he is a man who truly loves the Lord and the local Church.”
It is an absolute honor to highly recommend Jack Lynn and Clear Vision to you.
 

Sincerely,
Rev. Jonathan Elgersma
Senior Pastor
Faith Reformed Church
Zeeland, MI
E-mail – jelgersma@faithrc.org

Brian Blum
Worship Pastor
Frontline Community Church