Calling all team builders – 1 cor 3:10
Suggestions for team building
- Visualize what it is you’re trying to build. (Cast a vision) don’t duplicate another church
- Question – within the next 5 years what would you like to see happen in your ministry? (services, volunteers, leaders, vocals, instrumentals, musical styles, level of musicianship, fellowship, discipleship, musical growth, spiritual growth)
- Communicate your vision in a compelling way
- remind them often
- you are recruiting people to a mission, not yourself
- Build your ministry one volunteer at a time
- not once in all of his years of ministry did he sit back and say, wow I’ve finally got enough volunteers
- challenge musicians to reach out to their talented friends
- Pray
- adopt a “go after them” mentality – Jesus went after his peeps
- Build your ministry around strong people
- Make sure your ministry is a safe place for an artist
- Encouragement is huge in an artists life
- Prov 3:27 – do not withhold good from those who deserve it
- Moses hired artists – when done he blessed them – he inspected their work and encouraged them
- Implement processes that work
- Constantly evaluate our processes
- Music selection
- if one person selects all the music it will lack variety
- use a team to select music
- have one non-musician
- make time to listen to new music
- Music preparation (meetings, rehearsals)
- spend time making sure everything is setup a head
- Think ahead of time about the layout of the rehearsal
- start with easy songs (ones they know) then throw the hardest one at them.
- if you can work with vocalist and artist separate that is the best in his opinion
- tell the vocals at what you want them to sing
- Evaluation
- This is how speak to each other
- Give your ministry a letter grade in terms of its processes. What can be done to improve the area that scored lowest?
- Is there anything you’re doing that’s inhibiting the ministry’s effectiveness in song selection, preparation and evaluation
- Don’t ignore problem, fix them.
- Question: are there any problems within your ministry that you’ve been putting off? How can you address them?
- A lady just asked I have a problem – I’m married to the Senior Pastor
- BE CONSISTENT
- The way we talk to each other is extremely important
- A lady just asked I have a problem – I’m married to the Senior Pastor
- Question: are there any problems within your ministry that you’ve been putting off? How can you address them?
- Music selection
- Constantly evaluate our processes
- Utilize volunteers to help you manage your ministry more efficiently
- What do I need the most help with right now and are there any volunteers who could assist you in that task?
- Invest in the lives of your people
- do life together
- phil 2:19-20 – Paul was frustrated because he didn’t have others who cared like Timothy.
- Don’t be too busy doing God’s work that you’re not doing God’s work which is dealing with people
- Looking back on his ministry the people is the best thing that stands out, not a song, book, cd, event, etc.
- What specifically are you doing to invest in the lives of your volunteers?
- Live a sustainable lifestyle
- There is a crisis in our ministry today. People are working way too many hours.
- from me – Learn to say NO! enjoy the video below from Doug Fields I heard at a youth specialites concert
- Don’t stop being a musician just because you’re a leader
