Every Monday morning my e-mail includes “Monday Morning Insight” from Church staffing.com.

This mourning Todd A. Rhoades has a great blog on Beating the “After Easter Sunday Blues”.

I spent my Easter as I’m sure many of you, at church. With five Good Friday services and six Easter services, I actually didn’t see my family until Sunday night.

It is easy to get caught up in the event of Good Friday, Easter and certainly Christmas. It is important to remember why we do what we do.

I encourage you to take some time and list the top ten reasons you serve at your church, whether you are volunteer or staff.

As I said, the biggest challenge with having a large amount of volunteers operating in the Tech ministry is the need for more advance planning.

Many people are just not planners. They are not naturally capable of planning. They are visionary, creative, put not organized. If these type of people are savvy, they will surround themselves with organized, get it done team players. Non-planners can learn to be organized, they can learn to value the people around them by looking ahead and staying on task.

Why am I being so hard on the ‘Non-planners’? Well I am one of them.
I realize that by not planning ahead, relying on my ‘talent’ or perception there of, I tend to devalue those around me.

If you are also a ‘Non-planner’, find an organized/administrative type person and ask them to help you be more organized, or just help you plan an event.

If you are an organized person, see if you can help out your favorite ‘Non-planner’ They may be a little resistant at first, but will thank you later.

Remember that all of us are gifted in the body. To help each other for Gods glory.

We are in the midst of a large building project that will more than double the size of our campus. In any large church, the ministries that are challenged the most when buildings are built are the ministries that support the ministries.

The unsung heroes at our church are the Facilities Crew. They work tirelessly to clean and set up ( and re-set, and re-set) the multitude of rooms for the hundreds of events the church provides weekly.

The Technical Arts Department is one of the others ( but not the only one).
Our pastors have come to expect a certain level of skill in the operation of many of the key events at the church. The worship services, which include both the main worship center and our alternative venues, have long had paid staff in key rolls (house sound, monitor mixer, video director, producer). Those key staff lead a larger group of volunteers in the operation of the services. Our volunteers mix in our live recording facility, operate cameras for Imag, are assistant producers, and operate the graphics programs. In other areas of the church, student, kids, seniors ministries, volunteers operate all the technical equipment.

As we move into our new buildings, the church has begun seeing ministry from an Ephesians 4 perspective.

12″Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ, 13until we come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature and full grown in the Lord, measuring up to the full stature of Christ.” NLT

Although most churches start out operating on almost 100% vounteer service, once a church reaches a certain size, it typically starts hiring a larger and larger staff.
Mostly because it is just to difficult wrangling that many volunteers without them.

The biggest challenge with having that many volunteers operating in the Tech ministry is the need for more advance planning.

More later.