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Scalability Enables Creativity

Submitted by James Higginbotham on February 20, 2006 – 7:30 pmNo Comment

In the last post, we examined how ministries can lead the way in creativity through predictability, by the application of repeatable processes and the recruitment of tactical volunteers. This approach can make your ministry scalable and is what is often required to handle multi-site ministry. It also frees up your strategic volunteers, those that have an expert skill set, to concentrate on making your current ministry offerings better. These volunteers can then focus on the creation of new or unique offerings that they would otherwise not have the time to accomplish.

Using this approach for your ministry or church can enable:

  • A web ministry whose strategic volunteers are designing a new version of the website, not making day-to-day content changes
  • A media ministry who allows their most creative volunteers to find new ways to produce video or audio, or learn to better utilize existing equipment
  • An IT ministry whose strategic volunteers concentrate on better network security, installing a wireless network, or evaluating useful software solutions rather than patching Exchange servers
  • Gifted teachers or homeschoolers that can write amazing ciriculum for the variety of children’s church classes rather than spend all of their energy teaching only one class by themselves
  • Staff members to suffer from productivity rather than burnout, not doing everything because only they know how things work

Sound impossible? It isn’t. It is what God wants us to do by “equipping the saints for the work of ministry” (Eph 4, NKJV). An “Agile Ministry” is one that is able to adapt to change in an ever-changing world while honoring our God-given calling. It is only through the application of repeatable processes that our ministries and the church body can be free to handle this change, be creative, and be available for the next calling to come. Focus on equipping your volunteers, both tactical and strategic, by giving them the very best that God has in store and enabling them to do what they are called and gifted.

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