Date Archives June 2008

Rory Noland

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
  • 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