Ministry Teams at First Baptist

2. Ministry Teams at First Baptist How They Work

3. Kinds of Teams • Ministry Teams: Carry out a concerted ministry of the church. • Service Teams: Their work is periodic, easily rotated, or requires little planning time. • Teaching Teams: The people who lead Sunday Morning Bible Study classes – Teacher, Outreach Leader, Fellowship Leader, Prayer Leader, & Care Group Leaders • Members can be members of one Ministry Team and one Service Team. Teaching Teams do not count against either.

4. Team Task Directives • Scope of Ministry • Up to Four Basic Objectives • General Responsibilities • Indicators of Success

5. How Teams are Formed • Team Leaders selected by Pastor & Deacon Leader by March 31. • Team Leaders select team members in consultation with pastor. • Team Leaders enlist members by May 31. • 3 to 5 Members – exact number determined by the Team Leader. • Terms are One Year – Renewable, but not automatic.

6. Learning, Planning, Reporting • Each team forms its own action plans – within the scope of their ministries. • Teams will regularly meet to evaluate the effectiveness of their work and to measure progress. • Teams shall report their progress to the church. • Each team is expected to seek training and to continually hone their skills.

7. Teams & Others • Teams may involve others from the church body in their ministry. • Teams co-labor with the ministerial staff. • Staff members may be assigned as team leaders or assigned to teams as resources persons, liaisons, & equippers. • When a team’s responsibility over-laps with another team, they are to communicate and cooperate.

8. Teams are Needed… At the three-way corner of: • Need Acts 11:19-20 • OpportunityActs 11:20 • The Moving of GodActs 11:21 When God is moving and you get there, things can reach critical mass!Acts 11:23-24

9. Teams Are… • Collaborative • They co-labor • Every team member is involved in the planning and in doing the work. • Creative • Teams don’t just blindly follow someone else’s plan out of the box (even the denominational box); they find the best way to get the job done.

10. Teams Are… • Causative • Teams cause things to happen and get things done. • They take the initiative. • Cooperative • Teams communicate with and compliment other teams and ministries.

11. Teams Are… • Contemplative • Teams honestly consider where we really are. • Teams pray and seek God’s leadership about where we need to go. • Teams are the leading learners in their area, the church experts in their ministry.

12. Team Vision • True vision comes down from God; it is not worked up or arrived at by consensus. • Vision is the unique role of your team – its special niche in Christian service. • Vision is not just what we do, but how we do it. • Vision is what the team members rally around. • The team’s vision must be in complete harmony with the church vision.

13. Biblical Insight “The ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus”– Paul, Acts 20:24

14. Bear Bryant on Working Collaboratively • Another rule I believe in: I don’t have any ideas, my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments. • I don’t want ideas just thrown out, I want them thought out. Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama’s Coach Bryant, Paul W. Bryant & Paul Underwood, Bantom Books, 1974. Pages 341-343

15. Shug Jordan on Recruiting • Questioner: Coach, would you rather have the player who gets knocked down and then gets up to make the play? Or would you rather have the player who gets knocked down twice and gets up again to make the play? • Shug: I want the guy who keeps knocking all those players down.

16. Bear Bryant’s Rulesfor Success • One, surround yourself with people who can’t live without football [have great passion for the ministry]. • Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. • Three, have a plan for everything. Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama’s Coach Bryant, Paul W. Bryant & Paul Underwood, Bantom Books, 1974. Page 339

17. Creating Synergy • Blend idea people with doers–All dreamers and no doers makes for great meetings and no results. • Don’t pick people just like yourself–it will be more comfortable, but will not provide the full array of the skills needed. • Staff to your weaknesses

18. Blend Complementary Skills • Creators – Dream things up • Organizers – Plan things out • Pluggers – See things through • Promoters – Talk things up • Managers – Keep things flowing • Analyzers – Figure things out • Inspectors – Check things out • Peacemakers – Work things out

19. Blend Complementary Skills • Mobilizers – Bring folks in • Relaters – Love on folks • Servers – Help folks out • Motivators – Spur folks on • Discerners – See through things • Specializers – Can do things • Team Leaders – Make things happen

20. Bear Bryant on Staff Selection • Don’t make them in your image. Don’t even try… You don’t strive for sameness. You strive for balance… You want different personalities around. Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama’s Coach Bryant, Paul W. Bryant & Paul Underwood, Bantom Books, 1974. Page 102

21. Biblical Insight “One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles” – Luke 6:12-13 (NIV)

22. Discerning Potential • A Willingness to Follow – This reveals their attitude. • A Willingness to Sacrifice – This reveals their perspective on life. • A Willingness to Learn – This reveals the condition of their ego. • A Willingness to Serve – This reveals their heart. • A Willingness to be Honest – This reveals their maturity. Dan Reiland, The Pastor’s Coach, October 2002, www.injoy.com/thepastorscoach

23. “Once I started getting the right people involved, everything started to click.”- A pastor whose church uses ministry teams

24. Enlisting Your Team • Tell each person why he or she was chosen for the team. • Talk about needs, not programs. • Give the person a copy of the Team Task Directive. Go over it and explain it. • Give the person time to pray it over and the right to say no. • Set a date certain when you will re-contact the person for an answer.

25. Teams are Learning or Dying • A team should be the “church experts” in their area of ministry. • People with a passion for their ministry are always anxious to get new ideas about how to do it better. • We live in a society of such rapid change that regular training is essential. • Our most anointed service is on the cutting edges of our own growth.

26. Teams Know Their Boundaries • Each team has a Team Task Directive. • Be aware of the other teams’ scope of ministry. • Plan and do your team’s job and not another team’s. • When roles overlap, communicate with the other team and co-labor.

27. Teams Communicate • Teams communicate with each other. • Teams communicate with the church. • They make reports at church conference. • They put news in the mail-outs. • They put up bulletin up boards. • Teams communicate with the ministerial staff. • To seek input. • To learn about new resources. • To keep the staff members informed.

28. Evaluating Your Team Service • Am I in Fellowship? – with Jesus • Am I being Faithful? – in my place of service • Am I being Fruitful? – Am I seeing “grace results”? • Am I being Fulfilled?– or is it time for a change in my place of service? • Members should answer these questions toward the end of each year of service and then indicate whether they wish to continue with the team.

29. Four Keys to Teams • Teams need leaders who will lead…starting the ball rolling and keeping things going. • Working collaboratively is different… • Different than hierarchical structure or the lone wolf structure. Collaboration means every member helps make the plans. • Collaboration involves every member having a clearly defined piece of the work. • Teams MUST have REGULAR meetings! • Success depends on enlisting the right team members.Since teams have freedom, they need people who take initiative… the system won’t carry them.