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Development Director

Person to serve on the Stewardship team to "consult" with members who want support in their planned giving.

Database Conversion Project
Work with evangelism team to convert current MS Access database into Google Docs, and provide training to the Outreach team to use the new database.

Delivery Person  
Deliver thank you gift to first time visitors

Worship Scheduler
Point person to serve on worship team to connect with musicians to get dates that they are available to play, coordinate schedule of who is playing when, distribute schedule, copy and distribute music as needed.

Gifts In Action is the central resource for people to get connected with a personal ministry within the Church, using their God-given gifts and skills to serve the Lord with natural energy and joy.

Gifts In Action manages an on-going and complete system to engage church leadership (to understand ministry needs) and people (to understand unique volunteer gifts, talents and passions) which then connects both in manner that allows for effective, rewarding and long-term gift-based service.

Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. Romans 12:3-6a

A  Personal Area of Ministry is a job that you would take complete ownership of. You would think, What needs to be done with this? What would make this better? What Is not working and needs to be fixed? What is coming up that I need to take care of? How can I use this area of ministry to support TOL and Christ's mission to Share the Word? What can I be responsible for? It is about taking the first step, going the extra mile. Being through and complete in this area, making sure the needs of this ministry are met. It is you going to the leadership with needs and requests, rather than leadership needing to make requests and asking you to do things. It is making this area of ministry a vital and working part of the body so that no one else needs to think about it. It is how your passion comes out and your heart is focused and you glorify God with your time, treasures and actions through this personal area.

The Steps:

1) on this site, take the spiritual gifts Assessment

2) on this site, fill out the member profile

3) order the book: How Full Is Your Bucket or Strengths & Leadership by Marcus Buckingham and take the strengths finder assessment to find your top 5 strengths.

4) if you would like to meet with a connector to understand more about your gifts and strengths, please fill out request here.

5) look for upcoming training sessions