Resources for Team Based Ministry

1. Disciple Making Leaders workbook from EBA has a large section on teams. Available in Downloadable PDF format

2. Team Based Ministry, Bill Easum and Tom Bandy,  available in Downloadable PDF format

3. The Power of Teams, is one of the best videos on how to use teams to design contemporary worship. Order from Ginghamsburg UMC in Tipp City, Ohio.

4. Creative Team Resources Group 5660 Amaya Drive, Suite 179, La Mesa, CA 91942 Phone (619) 562 7400 * Fax (619) 562 7017 email: ctrgroup(at)yahoo.com concentrates on developing people, building ministry teams, particularly in the arts, in local churches.

5. Cordeiro, Wayne, Doing Church as a Team, Ventura: Regal Books, 2001.

6. Also, check out the training practicum that New Hope does for pastor shadowing or pastor’s practicum. You can find out more at www.enewhope.org

7. Websites that make teams work   www.intranets.com  and www.scheduleonline.com


From Bill Easum

Team based, shared ministry is replacing the heroic model of leadership. Catalyzing a team vision is replacing simply casting personal vision. Although these leaders are incredibly ambitious, it is not for themselves, but for the mission. Often, this type of leader is not well known. A good example is the unpretentious, Jim Wessel, retiring pastor of Upper Arlington Church. Other examples of team based leadership is what is developing at The Vineyard of Cincinnati at http://www.cincyvineyard.com/ and Evergreen Community Church in the Twin Cities area at http://www.evergreencc.com/ and Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock, AR at http://www.fbclr.org.