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Define your task
Define missions for your church.
Draw your boundaries
Determine your responsibilities
- Determine what qualities and skills you need
Pray for what you need
Watch for individuals with the right qualities
Recruit them
- Keep learning and growing
Find out what ways you learn best
Identify appropriate resources and tools
Hold yourselves accountable
- Build Community
Get to know one another
Communicate frequently
Pray for one another
Have fun
- Model missions for the congregation
Do missions yourself
Learn and pray
Give generously
- Divide up the work for task teams
Determine the teams you need
Find a good leader who has a passion for the area
Help the leader lay out a plan
- Develop and use good policies and procedures
Find out what policies you already have
Get input from church leaders and others
Approve and use the policy by sections
- Plan ahead and follow your plans
Establish a weekend planning time
Allow each task group to develop their own plans
Hold each one accountable to their timetable
- Make your church leaders heroes
Pray for them all the time
Compliment and encourage them for everything the do right
Give them the up-front parts while you do the details
- Do it all with excellence
Be prepared to carry out your best ideas
Do it as well as the best thing in the church
Source: How to Operate an Effective Missions Leadership Team in
Your Church, David Mays
