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BUILDING HEALTHY TEAM ROTATIONS:
THREE EFFECTIVE TEAM MODELS (PART 2 OF 3) | Brian Fuller
Congratulations on making a commitment
to creating multiple teams for your worship
ministry. You are well on your way to becoming
a more effective leader, a better musician and
most importantly a caring pastor. This new
approach to a healthier and more effective
ministry won’t be easy but it will be something
you look back on and ask “Man, why didn’t I do
that long ago?” Now, time to figure out which
model will work best for you and your church!
TWO TEAM MODEL – A AND B
In this model, you create two alternating teams.
Each team serves every other week. This gives
your people the maximum number of serving
opportunities while still creating a healthy
culture of serve one, take one off.
This is far better than the old school model of
using the same people every Sunday as well as
the easiest model to transition into. Also, please
note, ‘Team A’ does not refer to the actual
musical ability or quality of that team. It simply
is a way to denote which teams are which. You
can call them Team One, Team Blue or Team
Vision…. whatever works.
You will have two main challenges at the
beginning, but they will be overcome a lot
easier than you think. The first challenge will be
helping your current musicians understand why
they will be starting to serve less. This requires
vision and will most likely be met with a little
bit of reserve or insecurity from some people
who have been serving for years. Spend time
making sure to honor them, value them and
help them understand the reasons for making
multiple teams.
As far as scheduling goes, this is the easiest
model. Your other big challenge will be simply
recruiting more musicians. In part three of this
article, we will give you some practical tips
on that!
THREE TEAM MODEL – A, B AND C
In this highly effective model, you will create
three alternating teams. Each team serves
every third week. This is an extremely potent
situation, especially if your church does multiple
services and has weekly rehearsals.
This model has all of the challenges associated
with the first model and a few additional ones.
The biggest challenge with this model is that
you will need to nearly triple your team. Another
challenge is that the rotation, because it is three
teams, requires more planning, scheduling and
communicating. While it is easy to manage
an ‘every other week’ calendar, rotating every
third week gets a little more complicated. This
is easily remedied by simply scheduling your
teams a year in advance so that everyone can
be sure of the dates they are serving.
TIP: Some of your people may insist on wanting
to serve more often than every third week. If
this is the case, simply go with the threeteam
model but be willing to schedule some
team members on more than one team. For
example, Bill, your drummer, may serve on
Team A as well as Team C. So, while you have
three teams, you may only need 2 drummers.
Out of all 3 models, I believe that this is the
most effective as it gives you access to more
amazing and diverse musicians, allows folks
to serve a healthy rotation of Sundays per year
while greatly reducing burnout
FOUR TEAM MODEL - A, B, C & D
This is the mother ship of team rotation models!
Not for the faint of heart, this structure requires
top notch leadership, amazing administrative
skills and a large pool of musicians and vocalists
to choose from.
Who is this model for? This model is for the
large church that has multiple services, multiple
monthly events or multiple campuses. While
this may seem daunting, it is a must for some
organizations. I have personally managed a
team of this size and while it was challenging
to develop, it was smooth sailing once it
established.
People tend to approach this model with an
unwavering commitment as they only get
a chance to serve one Sunday per month.
However, because of the other events around
the church and other ministry needs, people
are often willing to jump in and help.
In this model, you will be able to do monthly
worship concerts, community outreach events
and many other things. The main challenge
with this model is making sure people don’t
feel left out. You need to continually create
opportunities for people to serve. But one thing
is for sure, you will never have a week without
a drummer! There is always someone standing
by ready to jump in.
Stay tuned for part three where we discuss the
common pitfalls to avoid as well as give you
some specific free resources to get started
recruiting and making multiple teams
Be blessed
Brian Michael Fuller
Brian is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and
worship musician who currently serves as the
worship leader at several churches in North Carolina.
You can hear some of his original production music
at www.fullertime.com.
www.FullerTime.com
38 August 2020
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