The Vision2 - International Pentecostal Holiness Church

Target2000. 1984-1997
In 1983, Presiding Bishop Leon Stewart gave B.E. Underwood (Executive Director of World Missions)
and Dr. Vinson Synan (Executive Director of EVUSA) release to develop a growth strategy for the IPHC.
During the Summer of 1983, the Fuller Church Growth Institute was
contracted to help us with a self-study to identify hinderances to growth.
Both efforts, the Fuller Selfstudy
and the Target2000
strategy were approved by
the General Board of
Administration in the
summer of 1984. The rest
is history.
History indicates that
Target2000 was the catalyst
that led to two decades of
record-setting growth. The
chart below shows
quadrennial growth from
1940 to the present. The
blue columns are pre-
T2000; the pink columns
show growth results after
the initiation of Target2000
growth strategies.
On a cold, snowy week end in December of that same year, six men (three
from World Missions and three from EVUSA) met at the Shangri-la
Conference Center in northeast Oklahoma for a time of fasting and prayer.
Out of that meeting came a document that would radically change the future
of the IPHC. That document recommended a vision name, goals and
strategy for the church as it approached the end of the millennium.
Average quadrennial growth
pre-T2000 was 7,876;
average growth after T2000 was 25,895 new members.
Mission21. 1997-2009
With the approach of the end of the millennium, the Target2000 Task Force
realized that the purpose and function of T2000 was coming to an end. In
1996, the task force began working on a new name and document to carry
the vision forward into the first decade of the 21st century.
After prayer and discussion over several meetings, T2000 emerged as
Mission21. The document at the right became the strategy and the image
above was adopted as its official logo.
The logo has multiple symbols significant to our church. The first is the name:
Prepared by Joe Iaquinta 2