“In leadership, you have to deal with the full umbrella of the organization. You can’t just pick and choose what you want to do…you have to oversee all of it.”
“I believe one aspect of administration is with the people, finding a place for everyone to serve at a basic level.”
“For the person driving by, maintaining the property well does have an impact to how people view the property.”
“There’s got to be some best practices of receiving money and accounting for that and then spending it in an accurate systematic process. No one wants to go to jail for mishandling somebody else’s money.”
“People ask more questions in this society. They question things a little more.”
“Everybody has some programming that they have to do. Now, we may think of that as a children’s ministry or a youth ministry, but in administration, I’m thinking everything that needs to be on a calendar, everything that says we’re putting money behind this, we’re putting people behind this, or we’re reserving our property for this—well, that’s got to be programmed.”
“I’m even encouraging people to keep files for their elderly since families don’t always live in the same city. So, I had a lady in her 90s have a pacemaker go out during service, and who do you contact for her?”
“A lot of people are afraid [creating processes] is going to bog down or slow down the Holy Spirit and being able to move among the people, that it’s going to make the church more of a business approach to life.”
“Could you imagine a game day for a football game to where there was not an administrative process of how people would enter the stadium and how seats were assigned and how concessions were going to happen?”
“You’ve got to find a way that works for your people. Because what’s gonna happen if you don’t have any process or processes in place, people are gonna get overlooked.”
“You’re going to need a process for every aspect of your church and it might be overwhelming for the pastor or a board member or a key leader to sit down and map the whole organization and everything that needs a process. But if you don’t have any currently, it would not take that much time to create one for each area each month.”
“I would find a way to network with people of similar size churches and ask them what they are doing. Sometimes you can find solutions with friends. I found accountability.”
“It may be that you need to do some systematic study. So for example, I took MBA classes.”
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