Are You Keeping Up With How You Do Ministry/Business?

Are you keeping up with how you do ministry?

This question/thought was brought up last night in our Life Group/Small Group on a personal level and how Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other social networks are connecting people and bringing them closer and knowing what makes them tick.

After switching gears and moving over to help our Youth Worship Team I am finding out that email and online social networks might not be enough to make connecting the “kids” and keeping them up to date on set list and rehearsal times.

Here is where I am going with this- I have bought into the social networking world! I think it works to bring people closer together BUT- as a leader of anything you need to always be looking and using new ways to connect, especially to the next generation.

With the youth worship team, they are all in school (and I will get blasted later in this blog for what I am going to say) most of the day, they don’t have access to a computer there or at home sometimes, one thing they do have is a cell phone. SO HOW DO THEY COMMUNICATE? Through texting! Our youth worship leaders Kyle and Chris text out the set list when they get it done and they go off of that. No you don’t have charts available all the time but most cell phones have mp3 players on them and that is how they roll. My wife takes her group of kids she lead prayer request on her cell and then text them out right then and there and they can read and pray for each other where ever they are when they look at their text.

I am scrambling to catch up and do this and I can’t believe that there are churches, leaders in ministry and business who still snail mail out post cards for events, meetings, gatherings and every things else. The world is passing you by like a car going 100 mph and you are standing on the side of the road in a dust cloud. (and your wasting money).

Prayer request, set list, schedules, emergencies, birthday wishes and kind gestures can be all done through online networking. For those who will say that you lose personal touch by doing it this way, that is what meeting your team members for coffee and lunch is for, but in between those times they don’t feel forgotten when they don’t get a phone call or a letter in the mail.

Just a thought.

PS… Yes, I know kids aren’t suppose to be on their cell phones at school, BUT THIS IS MINISTRY PEOPLE!!!