Having to work out of sync...

Here is from WEEK 9.

March 16th, 2009

Firing a Teacher

Interviewed: C.K. Chitty
When: March 15th, 2009

How do you get rid of an ineffective Sunday school teacher? Advice on how one would go about dealing with an ineffective Sunday school teacher?

Step One:
Determine IF you have an ineffective teacher. Is there a possibility that you have an untrained teacher? Could it be an unmotivated teacher? Perhaps you have a misplaced teacher.

All of these issued can be addressed through specific training, mentoring, refocusing or reassignment.

Another possibility is that the individual may be in the right ministry slot but needs to serve in a different capacity. (Currently serves as a lead teacher but needs to be the assistant/craft/research/activity type person.)

If it is determined that you actually have a person in a place of ministry where their gifts/talents/passions DO NOT match the ministry assignment, go to step two!

Step Two:
In a personal, one-on-one session, reaffirm the value of the individual to the entire ministry. (None of us is as good as all of us.) Discuss the gifts/talents/passions needed for the current (mismatched) assignment. Identify and extol the gifts/talents/passions that you identify in the individual. List the various ministry assignments which play to those strengths and suggest that the individual consider this reassignment.

Generally, this process is considered too much of a “pain in the neck” to those in authority. Therefore, the individual is mishandled and frequently lost to the church and ministry.