for pastors, techs, and directors to review the see starting even farther out as more creativity we can be really great at the things God has
previous month and look at the coming month. bubbles up from the individual campuses. It called us do with excellence? Pastor Randy
Each campus meets either weekly or every gives us time to experiment and time to take with his pastors and his executive leadership is
two weeks independently to go over their own people on a journey. Planning Center Online constantly praying and searching through these
details. is our primary communication tool we use to questions.
curate and refine our services.
We start farther ahead for key events. For
While we want to support our leaders, and
example, Christmas planning begins in July [WM] Are you concerned that all this listen to their input, we also realize that
so that we can lay out our proposal for Pastor preplanning gets in the way of following the sometimes external influences affect a leader’s
Randy in time to dump some serious energy Lord’s leading? observations. They may not be aware of every
in to preparations well before beginning our
element we faced. So, we also ask if we gave
Fall series. Once Fall comes, it’s pretty intense [Rick] The Holy Spirit can lead just as easily until February. The set construction team two minutes or two months ahead. Planning starts working on Christmas in September. We farther out actually gives us more time to listen [WM] What’s your staff to volunteer ratio, and
like this because it allows us time to modify if for what God wants us to do and to follow well. how often do volunteers serve?
[WM] How do you evaluate success? [Rick] We’re about one staff to 30 volunteers.
our best.
necessary. Instead of weeks, we have months
for teams to come along and build, record,
video, program, and do everything to make it
Over the next year I’d like that to be one staff
awesome. If an event is off campus, like our [Rick] We ask several questions to help us to about 50 volunteers, with the emphasis on
Easter sunrise service, we have to plan even develop our services. Is this a great return on volunteers leading, mentoring, and coaching
farther out. ministry? Are we wearing out our people? If we other volunteers.
don’t continue this tradition, do we continue to
Moving to this kind of forethought and be Bayside? Is this foundational to being who Regarding how often people serve, everybody
communication is a journey for us. A year ago, God is calling us to be? What are some of the is really different. People move through such
it was not nearly this developed. And I could good things that we’re going to give up so that radically different seasons in their life. For some,
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