Systems are essential to your worship team running smoothly. They create consistency in your worship ministry. People can anticipate what is going to happen instead of guessing. Systems also create boundaries - they let people know how things work and they limit your options (in a good way) allowing your decision making to be streamlined.
Here are 3 systems your worship team needs:
1 | Incorporate New Members
Ideally our teams would be teams that grow and not just grow for the sake of growth - but healthy sustainable growth. The best way to ensure that happens is to formulate a system for incorporating people into your team. If the process for someone joining team falls along the lines of "come to practice and you'll play on Sunday with us some day," you need to formulate a more specific plan.
First - what are the requirements for someone to join the team?
Second - how are you going to assimilate them into the team?
Third - How will you determine when they are ready to lead on a Sunday with you?
2 | Consistently Communicate Expectations
Expectations are extremely important and they can't just be stated once. They need to be reinforced over and over again because people forget. If you don't consistently communicate the expectations of your team, your team will slowly drift away from them. So how do you do it? A couple ideas: identify your core expectations and regularly cycle through them during your devotional time, spend time quarterly reviewing them with your team, have worship team evaluations and ask people to rate themselves in terms of how well they're following the expectations.
3 | Plan a worship gathering
This system comes from necessity, planning worship gatherings is a week in and week out responsibility. A system helps you streamline the process. Create a step by step plan that will work for your church. The plan should be crafted in a way that, if you were away for a week, you could hand the system to someone else and they could easily implement it.
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