3. Major Leadership Roles

The coordinator oversees the major facets of your ministry. She usually emerges by serving first at the entry and support levels. She may be young in years but is spiritually mature, well grounded, and shows promise. She works well in a team and is passionate about her ministry. She knows that her work is more than accomplishing a task, putting on an event, or serving in a support capacity.

Team-Building Principles

To transform women of all generations, we must embrace them one by one. You don’t have enough arms or enough time to do that alone.

Refusing to work with others is often a sign that you fear losing control. Women’s ministry is messy. It has been compared to herding cats! You may fear the conflict that might erupt when women work together. Maybe you’ve had a negative experience in the past and it is coloring your perspective. Maybe you think you can do it better yourself. But transforming women requires multiple arms, hearts, and minds — and it’s a lot more fun!

Structure in small churches

Since the majority of churches in America average less than 200 members,[i] most women’s ministries won’t need a large leadership team. But you will need a team. Guard against the tendency to do it all yourself because it is more expedient. However few women you have, a transforming women’s ministry model provides them opportunities to get involved and to develop their own potential for leadership in God’s family.