I love snow. It’s great for my a.d.d. Did I mention I love snow…
Anyway, a nice little Alberta Clipper rolled through…(I am a weather junkie). I also love to golf in the summer as you know, and SKI in the Winter. So, here we go Lord-willing!
Our newest staff member who is really young and just married this year can’t get to work until they plow him out. WHY? He drives a BMW. What are we paying him anyway? Just kidding. It is actually an older, but nice real-wheel drive BMW. And of course he lives in Wooster, because if he lived in Loudonville, he would own a truck with a snow plow on the front.
Anyway…Here are some great staff reminders to warm you up that Mark Batterson posted on his blog…read them, whether you have church staff or not. #7 is something that I had to learn and also the e-mail rule will tick more people off than you might imagine, especially volunteers.
Staff is like an extended family. We fight, we love, we support, we battle on in the name of Jesus. Though we are fairly short-staffed, we have an amazing staff, who do the work of several people, so the above stuff is even more important when you are a big church in a small town with limited funds.
In regard to what Mark said about “continually coaching”…I just had a conversation with Pastor Jeff Cooper last night about “continually coaching” as he will begin to handle more day to day operations at the Loudonville Campus so I can focus more on running the 3 campuses, teaching and leading. It is so very true.
The other part I might add is that you must know how to coach a person based on who they are and what their core identity and personality are. You can’t coach everyone to be like you. Play to their strengths and shore up to coach their weaker characteristics.
blessings and peace.
