1. Keep your spiritual priorities intact.

• Christ First — He saved you and called you.
• Family Second — If you can’t serve your family effectively, you won’t serve the Lord’s church that way.
• Church/Ministry Third — God has chosen you to serve His people in the local church.

2. Make your meetings count.

• Have an agenda.
• Receive prayer request.
• Allow time for team members to share some “God-moments.”
• Be timely, when you care about their time, they will care about yours.

3. Lead your ministry as a team, not a hierarchy.

• Surround yourself with wise people, not “yes” people.
• Go with the pace of your team, not faster or slower, keep the same pace.

4. Approach your ministry context as a life-long learner, not a boss or know it all.

• Have a system of communication that allows you to know about the needs of your students, parents, and volunteers.

5. Expose your leaders and your students to ministries and organizations that are doing things better than you.

6. Make serving and sharing your faith a priority. We never stop living out Matt 28.

7. As a ministry team, read through some good books that will help you grow in what you do. Leaders are readers. You can’t confront culture if you don’t study it.

8. As a leader, keep yourself surrounded by other leaders who are further along then you. Don’t always be the smartest in the room.

9. Be committed for the long haul, or until God alone moves you. Longevity is cool.

10. Be Patient, sometimes you will not be able to build it fast.

11. Be Content, but not lazy.

• Don’t seek success in ministry through the numbers or notoriety; just seek to please Jesus.

12. PRAY

• Ministry involves warfare against a real enemy. Use prayer as a way to involve the ultimate warrior in the fight to win this generation to Jesus.

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