As a private pilot I am required to go through a “pre-flight checklist” prior to every flight. We need to follow the same example as we prepare our congregations for one of the biggest days of celebration in Christianity.
Here is a list of the teams I pull together for Easter:
- Easter Planning Team – 2o plus leaders from each area.
- Finance Team – help determine the budget
- Pastoral Team – pastoral service time assignments, locations, and responsibilities
- Operations Team- Calendar Requests, Facilities, Security, Bus Shuttles, Maintenance, Food Service, Setup/Take down, equipment rental
- Campus Ministry Team - traffic, greeters, ushers, first aid, bulletin stuffers, information center, patio setup, campus cleaning
- Worship Team – Bands, singers, choirs, staging, Easter theme, number of services, location of services
- Communication & I.T. Team – community & congregation communications, oral, print, broadcast, and digital media
- Audio/Visual Team – sound technicians, staging and equipment, video walls for sunrise services, additional microphones, cameras, lights, speakers, etc…
- Decoration Team – decoration of the campus and all worship services and/or venues including outdoor sunrise services in multiple locations in the city
- Baptism Team – providing baptisms at all services
- Bookstore Team – providing access to the resource pavilion
- Follow-Up Team – Fresh Start with God Team (new believer kit distribution), response card team for decisions.
- Children’s Team – for all preschool and children programs
- Youth Team – for all junior & senior high ministries
Within these 14 teams there are approximately 100 check boxes to be completed in preparation to launch the first of our 13 Easter services over a 4 day period.
Stay tuned…I’ll post our checklist form in the next few days as a sample.
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