Notice the title of this post refers to staffing as ministry. While working with church staff, both paid and volunteer, does include various administrative tasks similar to what we might find in the secular world, staffing in the Church should be seen as so much more. We have opportunity to encourage people to serve in ways that pull on God’s power.
Pull on God’s Power Using Spiritual Gifts
We serve the people we recruit and place into ministry. We build them up through training not only as a means of honing their skills but with the purpose of glorifying God by stewarding the gifts He has given them. That’s ministry. The way, then, to do staffing ministry, is through the power of God which suggests using spiritual gifts best suited for the various staffing tasks.
Who Can Best Fulfill the Various Tasks Involved in Staffing Ministry Based on Spiritual Gifts
Staffing involves recruitment, placement, training, and more, all of which need to be coordinated. Since staffing involves a variety of tasks, it will also require different spiritual gifts to accomplish all there is to do.
Learn which spiritual gifts best fit these different staffing ministry responsibilities in the Ministry Handbook: Spiritual Gifts in Use. The handbook also helps you determine who to recruit for 26 other specific task a leader must either do or oversee.
As leaders, we may not have all the gifts needed for the different staffing responsibilities. Forming a staffing ministry team made up of people with gifting that is appropriate for the various tasks can be a way to help ensure we take staffing to the level of ministry. Or, we could consider consulting with people gifted to do a given task to help set up a process that gets us on the right track.
Helpful Resource on Staffing: Staffing Ministry Manual
For More on Gifting: Resources about Spiritual Gifts
For Even More on Staffing: Church Ministry Staffing Resources
All Posts about Staffing:
- Church Staff Expectations
- Communicating Expectations to Church Staff
- Church Staff: Expect Alignment with Church Purpose
- Church Staff: Expect Adherence to Body Life Principles
- Church Staff: Expect Pursuit of God’s Mission
- Church Staff: Expect Christ-like Character & Integrity
- Church Staff: Expect Reliance on God’s Power
- Church Staff: Expect a Partnership Mentality
- Encourage Church Staff to Grow in Grace
- Encourage Church Staff to Walk by the Spirit
- Encourage Church Staff to Use Their Spiritual Gifts
- Spiritual Gifts Best Suited for Staffing Ministry
- Encourage Church Staff to Pray Without Ceasing
- Encourage Church Staff to Regularly Feast on God’s Word
- Lead Staff by Shepherding
- Encourage Church Staff to Be Strong in the Lord
- Encourage Staff to Do Everything in His Name
- Encourage Staff to Set Their Hearts & Minds on Things Above