A few months back I was sitting in Jesse Rincones’s office, and as we were talking about ministry, life and his iphone we got on track about something he had read in an article about growing ministries. The summary of the article was that we needed to get people in leadership that were not only good at doing their job, but were excellent at training others to do the job as well. For example I should not only hire a youth minister, but a youth minister that knows how to disciple others to minister with youth as well. How amazing would it be to be at a church with 10 youth ministers, 5 music ministers, 7 administrators, 12 children’s ministers, and 4 people who were able to preach? How about having 100 missionaries serving from your church and seeing them impact your city, your state, your nation, and other countries??This has been on my heart for a few weeks now especially as Community Heights is praying about what are purpose is. ?I remember my first staff retreat while I was a youth minister @ Getsemani in Fort Worth, we were challenged “to work ourselves out of a job.” Brother Julio had challenged us to develop leaders to be in ministry with us and instead of building a ministry around myself to build it around a team. I began to disciple leaders to teach Sunday school, discipleship training, and even began an intern program and had 2 young men who were called to ministry fill those positions. Before I knew it we were impacting more lives and I was free to do more things. In fact on Sundays I didn’t teach a Sunday school class or Discipleship class for the youth. The more people that were working with us, the more lives we were able to impact. When I got to Getsemani in October 1999 we had about 10 youth in our core group and I was the only youth worker. When I left in October 2005 we had 14 youth workers and we ministered to over 80 youth in the DFW area. There was no way I was going to be able to reach that many youth by myself, and when I left Getsemani the greatest part was that the ministry kept growing. In fact the my last year there we took about 55 to Congreso, the year after I left Getsemani to 75 (that was a little humbling, but in a good way).?The idea Jesse and I had talked about a few months back was not a new way to do ministry, but was the first way of doing ministry that I was taught. As a pastor I am praying how we as a church can be leader makers and multiply the workers that we need. I believe that is the purpose every church and every minister need to focus on. When we do church like this Great Commission won’t be a dream, it will become a reality. Ok it is almost midnight, time for Tiny to let his computer get some rest.

-TINY

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