Ministry Teams

Team Leaders

Loren Hutchinson Associate DOM BR-KC Baptist Assn. Lee's Summit, MO

Todd MacLean Pastor Big Creek B.C. Pleasant Hill, MO

One of the great values of associating together as churches is the joint resources we bring to bear whenever a church has a need. The Resourcing Churches Ministry Team is tasked with streamlining the process to discover and categorize the various leadership skills available to our churches.

Goal: The association staff and Resourcing Churches Ministry Team will develop Resource Groups to assist churches in their ministries by June 1, 2010. (e.g. VBS, Youth, S.S., Music,

Action Plans:

1. Discover specific ministries within churches that are in need of assistance.
   
   
2. Find volunteers within the association to fit missions [ministry] needs.
   
   
3. Facilitate the development and equipping of the mission teams to fit mission [ministry]
   needs.
   
   
4. Inform churches of the availability of mission teams in accordance with the information
   gathered in step one.
   
   
5. Receive requests and coordinate the sending out of mission teams.
   
   

Goal: 80% of association churches will partner with at least one other association church by the Annual Meeting of the Association in October 2012

Action Plans:

1. Define at the 2009 Annual Meeting that a partnership between churches would be an establishedrelationship for achieving shared goals in areas such as evangelism, community involvement and worship through sharing of resources such as material or personnel.
   
   
2. The association staff will contact each church to determine any area they would like to partner with another church and maintain a list of those churches and areas.
   
   
3. The association staff will provide the list of churches willing to partner and in what areas to the association’s churches, and facilitate the churches getting together to discuss partnerships.

Goal: The association staff and Resourcing Churches Ministry Team will facilitate sharing materials among the churches and have a process in place by January 1, 2010.

Action Plans:

1. Discover churches willing to share resources.
   
   
2. Develop a check list of items a church is willing to share.
   
   
3. Send request and list to the pastors.
   
   
4. Create a database and enter the responses from the churches.
   
   
5. Publish the availability of these resources at least twice a year.
   
   
6. Add a means on the web site where the churches can register resources they have.
   
   
7. Resend the request in step 1 each year.

Goal: The association will develop a database of those persons with special expertise that are willing to share and assist churches in need of their expertise by January of 2010.

Action Plans:

1. Develop a survey form for association churches information.
   
   
2. Place survey form on web site.
   
   
3. Solicit names of individuals, companies, organizations, etc. from among association churches using web site as well as printed forms.
   
   
4. Develop a database for association records and enter responses.
   
   
5. Develop association form for churches to use to request help.