Week 6 Office Work Essay Melissa

Week 6: Office Work Essay
I believe that there has been too drastic of a shift from the 1970’s “office work” to the late 1980’s churches appearing as insurance agencies. I think that there needs to be middle ground. I understand the need for administrative work when a church is dealing with a building with many programs that occur, but ministers are made to be with the people as well. In my ideal world I would like to spend 20 hours in the office doing administrative work. If I broke these hours down it would be 3 hours in meetings a week, 5 hours in study for my lessons, 4 hours returning emails and phone calls, 4 hours planning events and having 4 hours of “open office” hours a week where teens could come in and seek my counsel. My other 20 hours in my work-week would be spent out with the students. I would attend their sporting events, plays, concerts and other special events. This would provide me with the ability to get to know many students in their “element” and disciple them further. I would strategically spend 5 hours out of those 20 with key leaders in the youth group to mentor them personally. Oh, what a dream!