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Your sign-ups are lagging. Last week only 2 women attended. The retreat’s a month out, but you’re less than half full.
Last week I made my bi-annual trek to the Horticulture Class Plant Sale at our local high school. I purchased two beautiful hanging baskets, flowers for the pots on our front and back porch, and several vegetable plants and herbs for our square foot garden.
Is your team struggling to get women to show up at your women’s ministry events and activities? If that is the case, you are not alone!
Does your team struggle with budgeting for an event? Perhaps you’ve under or overshot your budget on multiple occassions.
Almost exactly one year ago 20 women in our church gathered for the Prayer Warrior Boot Camp.
Earlier this month I stumbled across this article by Eric Geiger. You may have seen it when I shared it on the Women’s Ministry Toolbox Facebook page. What God drew my attention to was the 3 questions he asked his team:
How do you strike the balance of making sure every team member has a say and empowering your team members to make decisions? I’ve sat on a team where there were no clear roles or responsibilities.
I need to apologize, the list that follows is probably going to come across a bit critical. You may view it as a list of complaints. I’ve thought about trying to re-write the whole piece from a positive angle. “10 Things I Love about Well-Run Team Meetings” or something like that.
Perhaps you can relate to our recent budget dilemma… Our women’s ministry team has been working through the initial plans for our next retreat.
The number one question I receive is “How do we get the younger (or in some cases older) women in our church to participate?”
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