If you are in the process of building your team the first and foremost thing you’ve got to have, as well as be able to convey, is your VISION for the ministry that you are stewarding over. This is so important! Vision is the tool that a leader uses to get someone else to see what you see.

Now this can be difficult…mainly because everyone uploads information differently into their brains. So our best chance at conveying vision is by speaking it in different ways. I promise that you can never communicate the vision of your ministry enough.

As a matter of fact…I was at an Accelerate Tour a few years ago in the Waco section (North Texas District/AG) and got to hear a stern warning from Pastor Elwyn Johnston on the subject of vision and team building…He had this to say on the subject, “You don’t have a volunteer problem in your ministries…you have a vision problem.”

That is so true.

What he was saying is that if people aren’t following you maybe it’s because they don’t see where you are going. Don’t assume they’ll figure it out…don’t assume that they should know…because we all learn in different ways. Conveying the vision of the ministry is our job as leaders. Everyone on the entire ministry team should be able to tell you what the vision of the ministry is…if they can’t…you won’t go far.