Profile of a Volunteer

The job of my pastor is a volunteer job... no one pushed him or coercied him he said I WILL!!
Some of his duties include:
Being  responsible for providing the senior leadership and oversight of the church.
With God’s help, he will serve as the chief visionary to lead the church forward in fulfilling God’s purpose. He is expected to contribute to the team spirit of the staff through fellowship, encouragement, cooperation, prayer support and other appropriate ways, as he serves his Lord Jesus Christ
Provide for the overall health and welfare of the church. To be the primary preacher of the Word of God. This shall be done with love, faithfulness, impartiality and fearfulness knowing that he will be held accountable for the welfare of the flock (Heb. 13:17).See that Bible teaching is a primary function of the church.To conduct weddings and funerals, to see that related counseling is done.
To administer communion, perform baptisms and baby dedications.To work to facilitate peace among members of the staff and congregation; to seek to win back the estranged and to reconcile those with broken relationships, particularly when such conflict threatens the welfare of the church; at times, to work with the church leadership council to determine solutions to some problems of this nature.

To work with the administrator to develop new ministries and help with the overseeing of the current ministries.To oversee and lead other pastoral staff in their related ministries, keeping a uniform

“temperature” of the church.

To serve as an Elder on the Church leadership council.

His work has positively impacted others because over the 17 years that I have been there I have seen many saved, healed, delivered and set free from his pastorialship. 

A "take-away" message that is relative to his work in terms of my own volunteer efforts and advocacy is that "People are able to do what they really want to do." Our Pastor in an effort to help his lay people become more committed to the Lord and to the church always makes this statement and I believe that it also rings true in volunteering and working with families and children.

To lead the church in being a praying church. To call for corporate prayer times and

prayer and fasting times, to see that prayer is made for all people and places.

Using Social Media to Get Connected

My experiance with social media has been that I have had a facebook and myspace account. I have watched youtube but have not personally posted anything on youtube. I have only had a blog through this degree program.
I believe that facebook is a social media tool that lends itself to effective advocacy. You reach so many people all over the world. I have a friend right now who works for healthy families who is advocating that home visiting not be cut and she has used facebook.
I would use facebook to also educate and inspire others in my advocacy work because again it reaches so many people all over the world.
Help I would need from my colleagues on how to use social media would be how to get the word out on You tube. It seems like even our President was able to campaign with you tube so that is the next social media outlet that I need to learn how to use.

Advocacy Messages

Education is key to peace

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

I think these messages are these messages are so effective in creating action because it basically points out what you need in order to be successful and that is to have an education. Whenever people read things like this it causes them to act. Either it causes them to think about change, or it causes them to want to get up to cause change. The same way ads on television cause us to buy things or to go shopping these ads do the same thing.