Flow Chart 2.0
So, I can’t take credit for this one, but still worthy of passing along…
Most churches (at least the smart ones) are taking a team approach to ministry. No longer is one person the one stop shop for an entire ministry or branch of ministries. Most Student Pastors and Children’s Pastors now have a team, Worship ministry has a team. This is a great idea…and highly recommended.
My problem is, when creating a flow chart or workflow, it’s really hard to communicate that team concept. It always seems so starchy and so power-trippy.
Recently at WOLC (the greatest church on the “freakin” plannet – www.mywayoflife.org) we implemented a new structure to our team of leaders. The table chart. Maybe it’s stolen, maybe it’s not, but I give credit to Pastor Wade for bringing it to our church.
The center of the table is your vision, sitting around the table is 4 or 5 chairs (depending on your structure). These chairs represent the major categories of ministry (ours are student, admin/operations, discipleship, worship, and eventually evangelism). Each of these chairs are also sitting at another table (these tables are represented by circles on the chart). At the center of those circles are the vision for that branch of minstry and around that table sits ministries that fall under that branch. For example, in my “admin/operations” branch falls: Production Team (lighting, media, video, sound), Marketing, General Administration, and Event Management. Obviously those ministries are represented by teams as well.
What a great way to convey a team concept. Starts in and works out, not starts up and falls down like a big-chief on a high chair.
Email me for a copy of ours for reference: blankenship1@gmail.com
Peace!
