Doing your job effectively

What do office staff members and office volunteers need to do their jobs effectively?

As a volunteer or paid staff of your church, you are personally responsible for your own work. But others play an important part in how you accomplish your goals.

communication with the pastor -
It is almost always necessary to keep the communication between you and your pastor, or else, your work will suffer.

Churches are busier than ever these days. Even if you don’t see much of it while serving your duting in the office or from your living room, the pastor does. Weekly, even daily, events adjust office needs, alter assignments, change deadlines, etc.

You must keep a channel of communication open with your pastor to minimize the stress of completing your duties. Once you’re stressed, your performance lowers, and your enthusiasm for your job or volunteering your duties lowers.

Communicating regularly with your pastor does not need to be intrusive.
*Attend church on Sunday – this not only is good for your own happiness and spiritual growth, but also a good time to catch small notices of ongoing events and needs with the congregation and church.
*Make a habit of connecting with your pastor one-on-one. Visit your pastor on a regular basis, weekly or monthly, depending on the activity level for your church. Go to the church functions and chat with your pastor for a few moments.
*When you have a free moment in your life, call your pastor up. Ask if there’s a current need at the church. Perhaps this week’s cleaners are sick, maybe they’re behind in getting stuff printed for the upcoming event, or maybe the office needs some extra filing done.

However and where ever you connect with your pastor, it does not need to be invasive. Keep it short, sweet, and friendly. Stay tuned in to the environment around you and to your pastor’s body language. You’ll be able to tell if your pastor is really busy.

But for goodness sake, if you really have a problem and need your pastor’s help, don’t hesitate to ask and talk to your pastor about it. Even the most busy pastors know how to make time for the needs of their congregation, and it makes them happy to help out.

My Disclaimers…

*cross posted from my livejournal account

Ellen Datlow’s recent post about FTC’s ignorance has kept me busy this morning. I’ve known that the time was coming that even a basic book review would be subject to scrutiny and laws. That time is coming down fast with the new ruling…it applies to book reviews on your blogs – and it even goes out to the social sites.

I have a lot of websites to maintain. I’m now adding disclaimers to all about my reviews. And from now on, each review will have a disclaimer on it.

I’ve also been contacting Lilley Press book reviewers to let them know that they probably would want to add a disclaimer to their reviews.

This ruling is absolutely stupid and assinine…but it will stay…been coming for way too long.

And affiliates…better be safe and add disclaimers that your links are affiliate links. That ruling has been in a long time coming…might be here already if I’ve missed it. I know the pay per click ads are super picky about it now, and constantly getting worse. It’s one reason I don’t use them. Don’t want the headaches associated with them. I have enough going on as it is now.

For more information read Ellen’s post: http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com/221907.html

She talks about this article: http://www.edrants.com/interview-with-the-ftcs-richard-cleland/

And there’s also this article for information: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10368064-36.html#

Nice to know where our tax dollars are being spent isn’t it?

*End cross posting

At Helpmychurchgrow.com, I post affiliate links and give reviews at times. From October 2009 onward, I will indicate if a link is an affiliate link and add a disclaimer to product reviews on how I got a product and that the review is my honest opinion.

I’ve got some updating to do…again…