JOB DESCRIPTION

Ministry Title
Outreach Team Leader

Position Purpose
The Outreach Team Leader serves the church by developing and facilitating an effective and comprehensive program of both local community outreach and global missions. The Outreach Team Leader is also responsible for presenting an accurate report to the Leadership Team of all Outreach activities and needs.

Responsible to
Leadership Team and Congregation

Ministry Description

  1. Promote ministry beyond the congregation through evangelism, mission, community service, and outreach.
  2. Recruit and build a team of individuals with the gift of outreach.
  3. Develop a detailed plan for outreach to people who might be considered the church’s neighbors, to people in the greater community, as well as to your region, the nation, and the world (Acts 1:8).
  4. Provide low-risk outreach opportunities, such as service projects and large group events so that additional church members can be involved in outreach ministries.
  5. Provide teaching to help partners see the personal opportunities they have to reach out to family members, neighbors, and co-workers.
  6. Provide training and resources for various levels of outreach: intense outreach for the Outreach Team; low-risk opportunities for the congregation, and personal outreach by individual partners.
  7. Promote and participate in appropriate community-wide outreach efforts, partnering with other local churches and/or ministries that serve the community.
  8. Provide reports of outreach efforts at all levels as success stories and encouragement for additional people to become involved; this might include reports of a local service project or letters and emails from international missionaries supported by the church.
  9. Teach children and teenagers the importance of outreach and missions; provide speakers, arrange short-term mission trips, and show videos of church-supported outreach programs.
  10. Host a mission conference or outreach theme day; invite church members to join missionaries at a Sunday lunch following the service(s); create missions study groups; create an outreach newsletter (or a regular department in the church newsletter) to report on outreach activities.

Time requirements
The time commitment is approximately 15-20 hours per month.

Term
The Outreach Team Leader will serve for at least two years. The first year will be spent serving as an assistant alongside the preceding Outreach Team Leader, learning the various Outreach activities, and gaining ideas and visions for where God is leading the Outreach Team. The second year will be spent serving as the Outreach Team Leader, fulfilling the responsibilities and duties listed, recruiting and training volunteers to assist and carry out Outreach opportunities. The Outreach Team Leader should also recruit an assistant for succession. The Outreach Team Leader may be invited to serve for additional one-year terms thereafter.

Training/Resources
Attend appropriate workshops, seminars, and conferences related to community service, evangelism, outreach, and world mission; serve as an apprentice to the preceding outreach coordinator; network with other outreach coordinators (as well as evangelism or missions pastors) both locally and nationally; purchase resources on effective programs related to outreach.

Qualifications, skills, and gifts

  1. Organizational and planning skills.
  2. Communication and interpersonal skills.
  3. Ability to motivate and recruit others.
  4. Commitment to helping and serving others.
  5. Excitement and passion to reach out with the message of the gospel to the community both locally and globally.
  6. Ability to train, delegate, and enable others to carry out the work of outreach.
  7. Ability to communicate efficiently, effectively, and inspirationally what God is doing through the work of the congregation’s outreach ministry, in the lives of church partners as they serve, and in the lives of those who are being served.
  8. Spiritual Gifts: caring, encouragement, evangelism, faith, helps, leadership, mercy.

Benefits to the Volunteer
You will receive the satisfaction in knowing that you’re using your gifts and abilities to fulfill the command to “go and make disciples” and that you’re inviting and equipping others to share in reaching out with the message of God’s love.