Wednesday, November 5, 2014

A Guide On How To Get A Christian Ministry Started

By Etta Bowen


Being a leader is actually a calling from God to serve His will through spreading the word to other people who do not know about it. Now if one would want to create a ministry, he would have to approach it like creating a business because the processes are actually alike. SO if one would want to do this, then here are some tips on how to get a Christian ministry started.

Now the key to being successful in this type of field would be to of course choose the right partners because one will not be able to do things by himself. So the very first step in making ministries would be to actually find a team with the same goal. Of course it can be a small team or even a big team depending on how big they would want the organization to be.

Now upon doing that, he has to discuss what the main goal of the ministry is to be. Now the partners must all share that one same direction so that there will be no disagreements between them. Now it is actually in this part that the mission and vision has to be created so that they will all follow that direction.

Once those things have been done, then it is now time to get down to the technicalities. Now one thing to do would be to partner up with some churches so that the partners can just ride on the name. However, if the partners agree to straight away create a name for themselves, they can get the organization incorporated.

Now aside from that, he needs to find a good place where they can actually hold their meetings. Now as stated above, partnering with a local church is a good idea because they can use the space of the church as a temporary meeting place. However, if one has a big overhead capital, he may actually rent his own place.

Upon doing that, the partners now have to discuss the budget plan on how much their overhead capital would be and what their investments would be. First, they have to think of the things that they have to invest in like space, equipment, supplies, and advertising materials. Next, they have to think of other fixed and variable costs that they will be incurring over the long run.

Of course with the budget plan, they will roughly have an idea as to how much money they would have to raise for their organization. Now if they partner up with the church, they may actually create events for the members. They can also have a sale of certain things like cakes or any kind of food.

Upon taking care of all those things, then the partners may already start making an advertising campaign for the ministry. Now the success of the organization will all depend on the size of the member base. So in order to advertise, one can use the internet first as well as word of mouth then go on to publish ads in the newspapers.




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