Church planner and consultant Lyle E. Schaller offers suggestions and guidelines on how the people in a given local church can improve the quality of the decision-making process in that parish. His emphasis is on finding ""handles"" for beginning the planning process, on the importance of self-evaluation, and on the implementation process itself. First, he looks at ""the covenant and the pilgrimage"" taking place in the church. Other topics include the church budget; institutional blight; the importance of self-evaluation and accountability; the ability to implement ideas, plans, and program.