By Mike North

1. Module Three:
Managing the Ministry

2. Sustainability
What stops children’s or youth ministry being sustainable?
• Being stuck
• Investment
• Realistic expectations
• Changing culture
• Emotional health children / youth workers
• Navigating church politics
• Lack of volunteers
• When your plans don’t work…
Sustainability

3. Sustainability
Sustainable
Long-term focus on a single issue
Responsibility shared by the team
Regular meetings
Regular time for strategic thinking
Expectations of a multi-year building process
Traditional
Episodic focus with key issues buried
Responsibility carried by the paid worker
Concerns raised reactively at random meetings
Issue addressed between urgent demands of ministry
Expectation of the quick fix
(From Sustainable Youth Ministry by Mark DeVries)
Sustainability

4. • Don't push the "easy button”
• Think clearly about what your ministry needs
• Look at your system before your content
• Develop key documents
• Change the vision
• Change the culture
• Encourage emotional health
• Manage your time well
• Build a constellation of people
• Shift the focus from programmes to friendships
• Learn the unspoken rules of church politics
• Don’t wander down rabbit trails
• Scale brick walls
http://www.crosswalk.com/church/pastors-or-leadership/16-ways-to-build-a-youth-ministry-that-will-last-11599048.html
Children and Youth Ministry that lasts…
Sustainability

5. •What areas of your children or youth ministry
need to become sustainable?
•How?
•In what ways is “sustainable” not good
enough?
in 2s or 3s…
Sustainability

6. Module Three:
Managing the Ministry