Our deacons bear operational responsibility for our church's three rhythms: know, invite and gather.
Team Goal
Operational responsibility to ensure our rhythms are accessible to our church family.
Team Guidelines
- Model the vision, mission and strategy of Open Road.
- Attend the quarterly deacons meeting to remain aligned and effective.
- Fulfill the operational needs within your area of responsibility.
Operational Responsibilities
Our operational responsibilities are simple but significant and centre mostly around our three rhythms.
Know
- Baptism: supporting people keen to get baptised and investing in their ongoing spiritual development.
- Resources: identifying resources that help individuals in our church think, live and breathe as God intended.
- Groups: identifying and organising short/long-term groups that foster our vision of people who are "fully alive".
Invite
- Giving Kitty: ensuring our church can respond to God's prompting to meet the needs of those around us.
- Open Homes: identifying and encouraging people whose hospitality gift can foster a culture of opening up our lives to those around us.
Gather
- Setup/Pack-up: identify + develop people to set up and pack up our gatherings.
- Bookmarks: organise + deliver to highlight rhythms and monthly bible reading.
- Preachers: identify + coach people to preach at our weekly gatherings.
- Hosts: identify + coach people to host our weekly gatherings.
- Bible readers: identify + organise people to read scripture at our gatherings.
- Communication: produce and send weekly SMS + Email communication.
- Worship: Oversee worship leaders, singers + musicians for monthly gatherings.
- Booklets: organise + print scripture, prayers and lyrics for monthly gatherings.
Organisational Administration
- Marcello will have opportunities for administrative tasks.
Values
Imitate: ask no more of people than Jesus does. Keep our yokes easy.
Include: accommodate people in all seasons of life and faith.
Operate: Be responsible for all operational aspects of one rhythm.
Experiment: start small, Fire bullets, not cannonballs, welcome failure.
Minimise: only adopt strategies that are low-input, and high-output.
FeedForward: Regularly consider how to improve future outcomes.