Spiritual Lay Leadership Development
The Lay Leadership Committee is one of the most important committees in the church, yet in 99% of local churches it operates far below its ministry potential. We have worked hard to develop a year of intensive spiritual motivation, strategic visioning, and an effective ministry strategy for maximizing this committee’s ministry potential.
We work extensively on a monthly basis with your Lay Leadership Committee for a twelve month period to totally transform and strengthen the overall leadership in your entire congregation. This work has enormous impact on every area of your church life and ministry. By utilizing your Lay Leadership committee to it's full potential, you can:
The process begins with the Senior Pastor of the church. As the spiritual leader and shepherd of the flock, it is critical that we understand the Pastor's vision, hopes, struggles and dreams for the leadership and growth of the congregation. We will then fully discuss the overall strategy to be used with the committee for the coming year. We follow this with a full assessment of the current reality of leadership in the church. We determine their current feelings about serving in leadership, their spiritual interests and passions, their hopes and dreams for the congregation and their desires to serve in the ministries of the church. It is always encouraging to see how open laity are to share their deepest feelings with a concerned, objective clergy listener. Following this, We then go into extensive training with the full Lay Leadership Committee on the process of Spiritual Recruiting of leaders. This is grounded in the very simple theology that Christ knows exactly who He wants in each leadership position in the church. It is up to the members of the Committee, through spiritual discernment and in depth prayer work, to receive guidance from Christ about who is being called into leadership. Since none of our “prayer listening skills” are highly effective, we are very careful to include the persons being nominated in FULLY understanding several major areas of service that are currently open. We ask them to spend time in prayer work personally to decide where the Lord is calling them to use their gifts and graces. This brings incredible ownership of their becoming part of the leadership of the church. After completing this entire process with Charge Conference, the major focus of the Committee then shifts toward providing this committee the tools to serve the church with excellent, detailed and in depth training as to their role, functions, and possible potential for excellent ministry in the overall structure of the church. We lead these training sessions with the committee at first to model this for persons on Lay Leadership Committee, with the goal being clear they will come to provide this same training to all the committees of the church. Then you will no longer rely on the “District Training Sunday” to be the only real training that our leaders receive. Throughout the year, We also work with the Committee to be consistent encouragers, motivators and evaluators of EACH leader’s ministry potential, faithfulness and effectiveness in their respective positions. This accountability has a huge impact on raising the standard of excellence in the overall leadership. In addition to my work with the Lay Leadership Committee, We spend considerable time in reaching out to other adult members to have them join an ongoing Ministry Recruiting Group. We work closely and develop this group into an effective support team to work in conjunction with the Lay Leadership Committee. This group will be doing much of the “in person” recruiting and encouraging of the various leaders all during the year, per the Lay Leadership Committee’s direction. What does all this mean to the Senior Pastor of the church? First of all, it seriously frees the Pastor from the immense hours of work of trying to oversee the ministry of the Lay Leadership Committee as it’s lone chairperson. With the Pastor's plate being more than filled by never ending pastoral duties, developing the Committee into a well trained, strongly motivated and well equipped team will significantly simplify the Pastoral workload, and still allow you to oversee it all. The Committee will develop toward its full potential in recruiting, training and encouraging. The Senior Pastors of the churches that have used our ministry for training their Lay Leadership Committee have found that a well trained and equipped Lay Leadership Committee is a great asset that provides additional support for them. What are the next steps in moving toward this becoming a reality in your church? Share the information provided on this powerful ministry with your leaders. Talk with a few of your key leaders about scheduling a formal presentation on this with ALL your leaders, be it Board, Teams, or Administrative Council in the next few weeks. This meeting will be approximately 2 hours, and allow plenty of time for questions from the group. We would love the opportunity to share this ministry with your church.
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