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How much contribution do you expect from your associate minister, youth minister and children's ministerDo you expect them to teach classes Sunday morning/Wed night or to make sure those classes are covered and be more of a CEO type.

When you find out let me know - I've been trying to get my associate/youth pastor to attend church on sunday nights for almost two years now.....somehow he only makes it on sunday night when he's preaching..... Pastor Mike IPHC Pastor

Is he paid?? One really easy way to make sure your youth pastor is there on Sunday nights is to get a new youth pastor that WILL attend on Sunday nights. If he is paid, then that conversation can go differently - it becomes an employer/employee conversation. With our staff, I don't want them behaving as operators any longer than necessary - I want them working as directors & pastors. If the staff does all the work, then you're limited to the amount of work that a church staff can do - which is usually one or zero FT employees. One of the biggest mandates of a pastor is to equip the church for the work. If we never hand stuff off, then we're not being successful at equipping people. If we only give tasks and never give authority, then we'll only get tasks in return - not heart or buy-in. Eventually those people you've assigned tasks without authority will get frustrated and quit doing the tasks. I'd MUCH rather work on people than tasks. One of my favorite values of LPC is that we value excellence slightly less than multiplication. If a volunteer can do a job 80% as well as I can, then I give it to them.

will determine the management model. First I'll say that ministry is not voluntary, it's mandated by Jesus: Matthew 28:18-20. Second, a staff position is based on calling and holds a higher level of accountability and responsibility. It is a privilege to hold a staff position in a church.

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