Comments on: Small Group vs. Team

By: Lori Biddle

Lori Biddle — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:07:23 +0000

I have two staff worship leaders who are both on nearly every weekend. This helps tremendously! One of them lead the devotional time each thursday night during rehearsal. Yes, it cuts down on rehearsal, but the pay off in other ways far out way a bad note or two! The unity it has built is amazing, team members are dedicated to one another and try much harder not to let one another down by working hard to memorize and prepare their music and to care for one another.

Each group serves one weekend each month, so they only meet once a month. However, many of them are also in other small groups not related to worship.

Let me know if you want to know anything else! My church number is 419/529-0750 if you want to call. God Bless! Lori

By: Damian Horne

Damian Horne — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:00:10 +0000

Could you give some more details about this? If you have 4 small groups/teams do you lead each one of them or are there 4 separate leaders? How often do these groups meet? Is it difficult to make time for rehearsal & small group time?

By: David

David — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:29:42 +0000

I like your thoughts on this process. It’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about, and have done a lot of reading about. I know of many churches who do it this way and many who don’t. Thanks for the good article with good examples of how well it’s worked for you.

By: Emery

Emery — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:22:08 +0000

Hey!
Thanks for the quick response. That’s great insight on involving everyone that wants to serve. Building those relationships prior to ministry is so important. I like the way you build that into the process of activating people into ministry. Seems like a no brainer but it’s easy to overlook.
Thanks!

By: Lori Biddle

Lori Biddle — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:45:30 +0000

Emery,

We use them to help lead worship in the youth and children’s areas if they are interested in specifically using musical/vocal gifts.

What I have discovered many times is they have an even stronger gifted area that we desperately need elsewhere in our ministry. We have a class that helps people identify what their strongest gifts are, we suggest that they take this class.

Honestly though, they don’t have to be star quality to make the team. This process helps us get to know them personally as much as identify talent. And it is designed to reveal people that feel they can only be up-front performing!

thanks for the comment!!

By: Emery

Emery — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:36:10 +0000

I love this idea.
The audition break down seems a few steps longer than American Idol. I was waiting for…..then they go to Hollywood. I guess you can be so selective in a big church.
Here is a question I think about when putting a team together…..
Where should people that don’t pass the auditions but are very gifted get to share what God has given them?