Each church/ministry must make its own decision as to how much is strategic for it to maintain in-house, and how much should be outsourced. If your church can afford to hire professional sound people full time, will that harm or help your church overall? Does it make sense to place volunteers into a areas of service that require highly-trained volunteers and/or mission-critical response and support?

Does it impact your message, your mission, and your vision to utilize experts for specific or all services? Or, does it help you get to your purpose there faster by freeing up those that would otherwise be tied up performing duties that don’t directly impact your purpose?

Basically, I’m trying to break the spell of “everything has to be done in house because we are a non-profit church.” Obviously, you can’t outsource everything – we see corporations trying to do that now with all of their IT dept, and it doesn’t work. But prayerful, tactical outsourcing can free up people to focus on the strategic offerings of your church.