CHURCH WORK TRAINING: BUILDING EFFECTIVE WORKERS / 1

CHURCH WORK TRAINING:

Building Effective Workers

ALL THROUGH THE YEAR / 1

I trust last year was exciting and I hope you’ll have even more fun this year. Well, let’s get down to business.

Ten years is time enough to notice a pattern. During this period of speaking to leaders and church workers through seminars, workshops and writing, I have realized that the leadership of many churches place almost insignificant value on Training. Preparing workers for handling the imminent complexities that accompany growth seems to be reserved till crisis periods. While a number believe that they will cross that bridge when they get to it, results and experiences show differently. Truth is, people never rise to any occasion above their current level of knowledge, skills and abilities.

Consider this:

David could tackle and defeat Goliath because he was trained in defeating bears and lions. A simple sling became an effective weapon against a giant. You will remember that although the military trembled at Goliath’s threat, young David simply drew on his experience and saved the day. Your church will encounter Goliath-like situations and you may not have advance warning to prepare. Begin setting up a training policy today to prepare your soldiers for the day Goliath will show up.

Prepare By Tending

Cultivating effective, Goliath-defeating workers is much like cultivating prize roses. You must consciously tend them. To cultivate effective church workers (whether paid or volunteers), your church needs a consciously designed Manpower Training Policy. And no time is too early, but the longer you delay the more work you will have to do when you finally start. I would have loved to give examples here but for privacy and confidentiality issues.

What is a policy?

Wordweb defines Policy as ‘a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group’. It has been severally said that if you don’t have a plan, then you’ve planned to fail. A church’s Manpower Training Policy is a plan of action that will help keep your workers ready to handle your church’s growth and development.

Over the years, I have met quite a number of pastors and leaders of new and young churches who feel their congregation is still too small to require Worker’s Training or a Manpower Training Policy or Program. But the contrary is the reality, because they continue to struggle with attempting to change work-based attitudes with frequent invitation of guest ministers. Training increases efficiency by informing better attitudes and exposing better skills. Attitudes form in adults just like in children but are more difficult to change in adults than in children. It has been said that attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.

A worker’s training policy should begin to operate from the time you realize you have a set of consistent persons who are willing to be committed to certain assignments. Although it takes time to influence the required attitudes for effective spiritual service, the earlier you start the process, the easier it gets as time goes on. Eventually when new workers join the team, they will be drafted into an ‘attitude environment’. Imagine the work to be done with a thousand-man worker’s team after twelve years of church growth without a training culture – that is about one-thousand reinforced attitudes you will be faced with struggling to adjust! According to William James, “People can alter their lives by altering their attitudes”.

I’m not talking about calling irregular meetings to quell sparks and fires when issues or crisis arise. Depending on such meetings as the tool for developing your workers is like trying to raise an army after the war has broken out.

Training is a must-do task that should be conducted on a quarterly or (at least) bi-annual basis. We’ll continue from here in my next Blog Building Effective Workers ALL THROUGH THE YEAR / 2.

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