Contents:
1. Philosophical/Theological Issues
- Music ministry as a vocation
- Ordination
- Assessing your abilities
- Theological issues
- Developing a concept of worship
- Building a philosophy of music ministry
2. Personal Issues
- Relational concerns
- Managing relationships
- Maintaining a healthy lifestyle
- Spiritual development
- Avoiding burnout
- Developing as a leader
3. Employment and Vocational Issues
- Professional preparation
- Continuing education
- Compensation
- Minister's compensation worksheet
- Housing allowance and self-employment
- Minister's estimate of housing allowance
- Financial management
- Retirement
4. Working with Church staff
- Working with the pastor
- Working with other ministers
- Working with staff members
- Working with collaborative musicians
- Personnel supervision
- Developing job descriptions and organizational charts
- Job descriptions
- Organizational charts
- Working with local and national organizations
- Working with interns
5. Involving others
- Enlisting and training
- Recruiting and working with volunteers
- Communication
- Developing as a ministry team
- Working with committees and ministry teams
- Parent councils
- Delegation
- Dealing with conflict
- Working with difficult people
- Managing and leading change
- Managing worship conflicts
- Reshaping congregational singing
6. Promotion
- Promoting the music and worship ministry within the church
- Music and worship ministry and other programs
- Promoting the music and worship ministry in the community
- Communicating with media
- Designing printed materials
- Fundraising
7. Organization and Time Management
- Establishing goals
- Long range planning
- Developing a mission statement
- Program evaluation
- Time management
- Organizing for worship ensembles. Worship leadership teams, choirs, and performance groups
- Description of duties for choir officers
- Organizing and maintaining the music library
- Calendaring
- Special issues for bi-vocational ministers
8. Facilities and Finances
- Preparing and presenting a budget
- A budget checklist
- Music and worship ministry budget (sample)
- General guidelines for fiscal responsibility
- Acquiring music
- Instrumental and equipment purchases
- Donated instruments
- Music and worship ministry facilities
- Worship facilities
- Sound systems
- Lighting
- Purchasing a hymnal
9. Dealing with Transition
- Deciding to leave
- Designing and distributing a resume
- Relating to a search committee
- The interview
- Assessing the potential church
- Assessing the potential pastor
- Leaving effectively
- The new position: getting started
- For personnel committees only
10. Ministering in special situations
- Making a hospital visit
- Ministering to families in grief
- Ministering through counseling
- Ministering without a pastor