This week marks the beginning of the new church year for most US churches. With that in mind, it is a good time to take inventory of our tech teams, and make some plans for the new year.To that end, here are 5 questions that can serve as discussion starters for your team:
Question #1: Do we have the personnel we need, and are they properly trained? Sub-questions:
- Do we have enough volunteers for rotation so that the same person isn't "working" every Sunday?
- Are our people cross-trained, so that they can cover staffing gaps in case of emergencies?
- Are our people in the right positions, so that they can best use the gifts God has given them?
- If we need to recruit, should we make a general appeal or make personal invitations? And who will be responsible for training the new recruits?
- Have we separated desired items into needs and wants, and needed items into critical and non-critical? How will each item help us further the mission of the church?
- Have we gotten responsible estimates of the costs of these items? If not, who will be responsible for doing so?
- Once we have gotten cost estimates, have we organized them into an easily understandable proposal for the appropriate church government entity?
Question #4: Can we use our skills to help others? Sub-questions:
- Is there a new or small church in town that needs our help? Could we offer assistance in helping to train their technical volunteers or helping with equipment installs?
- Could we serve our community by offering to provide tech support for certain community events at no charge?
- Could we offer to teach local non-churched teens technical skills as an outreach?
I'm sure there are tons of other great questions we could discuss, but these will hopefully get us started in the direction of a technically better 2010 - 2011.
