Game Time Offensive Coordinator
Throughout my time in student ministry, I have had some fantastic people who have served beside me through paid positions, interns, or as adult volunteers. Looking back over different ministry settings, I do not think our ministry would have ever had an impact on student’s lives without the incredible people who came beside me and bought into our vision. Today we are going to look at a position called the Offensive Coordinator. It sounds weird to have an Offensive Coordinator in ministry, right? Well, because of the volunteers in ministry and the vision you have for taking the ministry to the next level, you need to have someone serving in different coordinator positions.
Before we share signs of a great Offensive Coordinator, we must define the position or who would hold this position in your ministry. I have found that the person who serves in the role of your Offensive Coordinator is someone who can talk to you from a mindset of honesty, respect, and can honestly evaluate your small groups, worship services, and your impact with students. My Offensive Coordinator comes to me and challenges me to evaluate goals from different perspectives that lead to changes within our ministry.
Evaluate and form these five items below into a Great Offensive Coordinator for your ministry.
5 Things a Great Offensive Coordinator Does for Your Ministry
5. They bring evaluation regularly to your ministry. One of the greatest assets that come from having a great Offensive Coordinator is receiving assessments weekly. In Student Ministry, we have changes that we make regularly, and we are always making our ministry move to the next level. Well, sometimes, for the growth and significant changes to occur, our ministry must-see evaluations to look at specific areas we can become stronger. My Offensive Coordinator shares with me evaluations they see and also provides some solutions to help us move forward.
One other thing that my Offensive Coordinator brings to me regularly, questions. They push me to think from outside of the box perspective, which in return leads to our ministry becoming stronger. Remember, questions and evaluations are not negatives; they are positives that make you a stronger ministry.
4. They spark life into your ministry. When I look at the role of an Offensive Coordinator in Student Ministry, I see the energy and someone who brings life to our ministry. When they are serving beside you and investing in students weekly, they will spark life into your ministry every time. Why? Because they have bought into your ministry and are fully invested in where the ministry is heading. When I look at my Offensive Coordinator, I see them doing weekly discipleship with students and doing life alongside the students. They are a fire ember that is being fanned to bring energy.
3. They are humble and transparent with you. An Offensive Coordinator does not come and talk with me as someone who has it all figured out. Instead, they come to me asking questions and working through the process with me. In the end, our transparency and humble attitudes lead us to learn from one another and move our ministry to the next level as a team. You need someone who is going to have a humble spirit and, indeed, be transparent with what they are battling with as you both work to take the ministry to the next level.
2. They are the standard for your ministry. I was battling how to label this number because each one of us looks at our ministry from a helicopter perspective to make sure the ministry is moving forward. If you do not look from a helicopter perspective at your ministry, let me challenge you to do that. But when I look at our ministry regularly and do a flyover of each of our volunteers, some people are the “standard” or the “model” of what we want for our ministry. Well, the Offensive Coordinator, a volunteer in your ministry, is the one who should be setting the standard for what your volunteers should be producing weekly. The Offensive Coordinator will then help push the other volunteers to help your ministry invest in students and their families.
1. They interact and talk with students. I know what you are thinking, “Okay, Scott, they serve in Student Ministry; of course, they must be interacting and talking with Students.” Trust me, I hear your feedback, but I have been in churches on staff or as a guest where leaders did not interact or talk with Students outside of the classroom setting. In all transparency, my Offensive Coordinator plays games, communicates, and hangs out with our students weekly. We are very intentional with it because we want every student to have a unique experience and come back. I want people in our ministry to love students, but also interact with them. An Offensive Coordinator will do those things and even push your adult volunteers to interact with students consistently also.
