Youth Ministry Management Tools : Everything You Need to Successfully Manage and Administrate Your Youth Ministry

by Ginny Olson, Diane Elliot, and Mike Work

• ISBN13: 9780310235965
• ISBN10: 0310235960
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

This is a manual for quick and convenient access to the spectrum of administrative and managerial tasks that face youth workers every day with a companion CD-ROM that includes not only a student contact database, but all the book's forms in editable format.

Table of Contents

Introduction
How to use this book	7	(3)
Using the Youth Assistant / Special Edition CD-ROM	10	(5)
Part 1: Tools to help you manage yourself
Organize Your time	15	(2)
Schedule it	17	(6)
Plan it	23	(6)
Do it	29	(8)
Don't forget relationships	34	(3)
Communicate it	37	(8)
Organize your office	43	(2)
Organize your space	45	(8)
Organize your information	53	(6)
Organize your day-to-day functioning	59	(12)
Part 2: Tools to help you manage your ministry
Calendaring	69	(2)
Vision and values	71	(6)
Providing supportive leadership	77	(8)
Activities calendaring and ministry values	85	(10)
Ministry finances	93	(2)
Basic finances for youth ministry	95	(12)
Budgets and why you need them	107	(12)
Donations and income	119	(8)
Managing events	125	(2)
Planning events with a purpose	127	(8)
Tools for event management	135	(12)
Innocent negligence	145	(2)
Event budget, facilities, registration, and evaluation	147	(14)
Part 3: Tools to help you stay in youth ministry
Team building	159	(2)
Building a healthy team	161	(8)
Recruiting volunteers	169	(8)
Lifecycle of team members	177	(12)
Developing interns	189	(12)
Risk management	199	(2)
Safety first	201	(14)
Insurances and vehicle safety	209	(6)
When accidents happen	215	(14)
Getting a youth ministry job	227	(2)
How to get a great youth ministry job	229	(8)
Interviewing for a job in youth ministry	237	(8)
The offer	245	(8)
Leaving well	253	(9)
Part 4: Forms
Alphabetical list of forms	262