Worship Leader’s Job Description
Bill Easum 2007 WORSHIP PASTOR Position Objective: To provide pastoral leadership to the worship ministries of (your church). This should reflect whatever mission or vision statement you have. Position Description: The worship pastor will be the “producer” of each worship service and special programs. Although the senior pastor is the “director” in terms of setting the theme […]
To Whom Do Teams Report?
From Bill Easum Ministry Teams report to different people in different size churches. In small church to the pastor. In a large church to a variety of people. Core teams (those you cannot exist without) report to a staff person who also meets with them or stays in close touch with them. Other teams report […]
Absolute Truth
From Paul Franklyn, Electronic Editor at Abindon Press I usually don’t contribute to the list, for I am an editor in publishing and not a congregational leader, but I touched this topic today at an Easter Monday worship, here at the office. On absolute truth, take a look at the works of CS Lewis. In […]
Summer Ministries
From Bill Easum From our Advanced Leadership Forum. Click here to join Too many churches reduce ministries in the summer. 95% of these churches are declining and the attitude that would allow them to reduce ministries in the summer is one of the underlying issues of dying churches. If so little is happening in your […]
Lessons from Starbucks
From Bill Tenny-Brittian A new Starbucks just opened about 1/2 mile from the church so I sat there the other morning and did sermon prep. As I listened in, I heard the trainers working with staff – modeling behavior and team/partnership. Boy did I learn something that morning! Lesson #1 on Leading Leaders: As the trainer was instructing […]
Why Don’t People Attend Small Groups?
From our Advanced list serve (2006) To join click here In the past while serving more conventional churches, I’ve also experienced the difficulty of getting small groups up and running. I was pondering, as I read your email, as to why it is so difficult to get them started. Here are a couple of thoughts I have, […]