I’ve been thinking a lot about how much those in ministry work lately. One thing that has sparked this line of thought for me is the rewriting of a job description for one of the ladies on our team. For the past five years, we have had a male and a female in both middle school and high school ministries. About a year ago, the female in our high school ministry left to pursue other callings. In the process of seeking to hire this position, our church froze our budgets and new hires due to budget reasons. Thus, we have been short one female for the past year. The past two months have caused us to think that our current staffing level is not just a temporary situation, but more our new normal.
With this in mind, we have decided to try and write a job description for our remaining female that will give her a broader base of responsibility as well as the opportunity to touch the lives of more girls in our ministry. The biggest issue with the components of this new job description is the care of the person filling it. The position is filled with relational responsibility and it can easily lead to burn out and a sense of being overwhelmed. It also seems likely that anyone in this position will have a desire to attend every event our ministries do because of the relational equity that can be gained. So, how do we craft a job description with boundaries? How do we honor the fact that ministry is not a 9-5 position without making it a 24/7 position especially in a job description that has the ability to be so big?
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