CONSTRUCT • CULTURE • CONVERSATIONS
CONSTRUCT
Build the structures and pathways that enable people to serve well.
Outcomes
- Healthy serving teams exist across the church with clear roles and expectations
- A leadership pipeline flowing and raising up new team leaders
- Structures enable sustainable and scalable ministry
- Team leaders are equipped and supported
Responsibilities
- Build healthy serving teams
- Establish clear roles and expectations (help Area and Team Leaders develop role descriptions)
- Develop a leadership pipeline — identify, train and develop team and area leaders
- Create structures that enable sustainable and scalable ministry
- Coordinate with other Area Leaders on good team structures
- Develop a serve calendar
Metrics
- Number of new Team Leaders raised
- Team leaders recruited and equipped for each team
CULTURE
Cultivate a church-wide conviction and culture of joyful, sacrificial service.
Outcomes
- People serve with freedom and joy, rooted in their identity in Jesus — not from guilt, pride, fear or need for individual expression
- People can see how their service contributes to the mission of making, maturing and multiplying disciples
- A culture of joyful, sacrificial service is celebrated and reinforced
- Unhealthy motivations for serving are gently addressed
Responsibilities
- Teach and reinforce a biblical theology of serving
- Ensure people understand why they serve
- Regularly measure the “serve temperature”
- Celebrate and encourage serving
- Address unhealthy motivations for serving
Metrics
- % Agree – “I am serving Jesus sacrificially from my freedom in Him, not guilt, pride or fear”
- % Agree – “I can see how my service contributes to the mission of making, maturing and multiplying disciples of Jesus”
CONVERSATIONS
Have intentional Serve Conversations that help people find their place.
Outcomes
- A high proportion of the flock is serving in ministry teams
- Intentional Serve Conversations help people identify their gifts, passions and capacity
- People are connected to appropriate serving opportunities and take their next step
- Follow-up encourages people into ongoing service
Responsibilities
- Help people identify their gifts, passions and capacity
- Connect people with appropriate serving opportunities
- Help people take their next step
- Follow up and encourage people into service
Metrics