Purpose Serving as Technical Arts Team Leader helps ensure the church accomplishes its mission through creative and inspiring weekend services supported by an excellent technical arts infrastructure (people and equipment). General Description The Technical Arts Team Leader supports the Arts Pastor in recruiting, training, developing, deploying, and recognizing technical artists as needed to sustain a weekend … [Read more...]
Sound Operator Ministry Description
Ministry Description ... The "Job Description" For Volunteers
Purpose Serving as Sound Operator helps to ensure the church accomplishes its mission through the production of creative and inspiring weekend services and special events. General Description The Sound Operator serves as part of the Tech Team during weekend services in support of the Arts organization. Scheduled on a rotating basis, the Sound Operator configures, operates, and troubleshoots all audio equipment … [Read more...]
Minister’s Housing Allowance Determination
A Process To Help Churches Help Their Staffs To Determine And Gain Approval For Their Housing Allowance Designations Each Year
One of the questions I get most often at this time of the year is on the topic of the Minister’s Housing Allowance. Not what it is or anything, but rather how to implement a process for helping a minister determine it and how to facilitate the “board approval” required by the IRS tax code. The issue is how to have the board do the approval and show that approval on a document somewhere for each minister. This is … [Read more...]
Strategic Planning
A Step By Step Outline Of A Pretty Good Strategic Planning Process
Developing a “plan and execute” culture in the local church is critical to success! Here’s a “step by step” description of the process of developing a strategic plan. This can be done in a fairly short time and without much difficulty and cost. Check this out and give it a try! Flowchart Stakeholder Needs Using numerous data sources (internal opinion surveys, external demographic studies, performance metrics, … [Read more...]