Work n’ Relationship

Relationships in work are always the key to opening the door towards success or destruction.  Get too close and the level of work can take a back seat.  Someone might think they can get too much more for less because of the relationship. Get too close and it could ruin a marriage and a family.

But stay too far and mistrust and selfishness takes the driver’s seat.  Each side can have this feeling that the other one is out to get them. Stay too far and the common understanding of how each are important to the task tends to fly out the window.  One begins to believe they are the important part and deserves ___________.

Knowing we’re all on the team together goes a long way.  At Fellowship Church, we’ve placed a high importance on our team leaders.  Team leaders, for us, are those working with Ministry Directors whom work with the Senior Pastors.  Ministry Directors oversee a specific area of ministry like Family Ministries, Life Groups, Sunday Morning, Web Campus, and First Impressions.  Team Leaders are the field specialists so to speak.  I believe these team leaders are a key towards success or destruction.  They truly are the go-between from the rest of the volunteers/attendees to the pastors.

We ask that leaders are prepared to provide maximum energy, maximum help, and maximum effort.  They need to be excited about, promote and participate in the church culture.  They need to build relationships with team volunteers.  They need to seek ways to ensure the team of volunteers succeed.  They help train the volunteers.  And because they are doing the tasks week in and week out, they know better than anyone better and new ways to accomplish the ministry.  They then accomplish all these things with their respective Directors.

The team leaders and directors need to have a good working relationship for this all to work.  And the directors and senior pastors need to have a good working relationship as well for this all to work.

It’s not a perfect system and it’s not without issues.  It certainly isn’t a way to separate people from the pastors.  It’s goal is to allow the pastors more time and ability to meet the needs of the congregation. It allows us all to have better working relationships, which leads to success.  And success for us is connecting and leading people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. When we fail, they fail; and when they fail, we fail as well.