10 Ways to Develop Your Staff
Having a staff can be one of the most rewarding and challenging things for a campus minister to deal with. A good staff can multiply kingdom work in amazing ways, but a dysfunctional staff can kill a ministry quickly. Often times as ministers we are quick to develop students but once we have staff we forget about developing our staffs. Here are ten things that can help develop your interns and staff. Don’t treat them like Ministry Assistants. Spend their time and energy on campus. Make your own coffee, hire someone else to answer the phone. Spend their energies on evangelism and discipleship. Let them be Chief. Give them something they are in charge of and you answer to them about. Sure, they may ask you questions in private about how to do it, but in public, in that area, you are the Indian and they are the Chief. Remember as responsibility goes up, personal rights go down. You may be top dog, but remember the kingdom principles. The greatest among you goes the lo