{"id":28909,"date":"2014-01-07T02:15:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T09:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.churchvolunteercentral.com\/?post_type=cvdaily&#038;p=28668"},"modified":"2016-09-07T18:33:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T00:33:34","slug":"connecting-people-to-ministry-serve-tour-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwv.group.com\/childrens-ministry\/blog\/training\/connecting-people-to-ministry-serve-tour-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting People to Ministry: Serve Tour Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">How do you help people see ministry in action?\u00a0 For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycompasschurch.com\/\">Compass Christian Church<\/a> in Colleyville, Texas, it\u2019s a program they started last year called, <i><strong>Serve Tour Live<\/strong>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Held one Sunday each month, <strong><i>Serve Tour Live<\/i><\/strong> allows people an opportunity to see ministry happening in real time. People can register or just show up to participate.\u00a0 They\u2019re assigned a Guide who starts the tour with a stop in the Welcome Center for a fresh baked cookie and cup of coffee.\u00a0 Guides take a small group of 6-8 people around the campus to visit some \u2018backstage areas\u2019 to see what\u2019s often overlooked on a normal Sunday visit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cPeople don\u2019t realize the many behind-the-scene roles that are needed to conduct services each weekend. This gives them the perspective of a wider range of ministry options,\u201d reports Rich Green, Serve Pastor at Compass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Guides give each person in their group a booklet which highlights each ministry area they\u2019ll observe, a brief description of what each group does, and the contact information of the leader.\u00a0 \u201cThey see serving roles that most people aren\u2019t even aware exist such as:\u00a0 security patrol, offering counters, nursery workers, sound techs, and the Sunday prayer team,\u201d Rich points out. \u201cWe ask them to indicate if they see a ministry they\u2019d like to join or get more information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A \u201cNext Step\u201d card allows tour participants to indicate if they\u2019re ready to join a team. Guides return the cards to the office where Rich goes through them on Monday. Referrals are made to the ministry leaders if a tour member expressed interest in that area. A special team follows up on each lead to make sure the connection is made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to talk about places to serve in the church\u2014<strong><i>Serve Tour Live<\/i><\/strong> actually shows them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For more information on this program visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycompasschurch.com\/default.aspx?page=3743\">Compass Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you help people see ministry in action?\u00a0 For Compass Christian Church in Colleyville, Texas, it\u2019s a program they started last year called, Serve Tour Live. Held one Sunday each month, Serve Tour Live allows people an opportunity to see ministry happening in real time. People can register or just show up to participate.\u00a0 They\u2019re assigned a Guide who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":28670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,6,670],"tags":[398,130,399,131],"class_list":["post-28909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recruit","category-training","category-volunteers","tag-ministry-tour","tag-recruitment-2","tag-serve-tour-live","tag-serving"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Connecting People to Ministry: Serve Tour Live - Group Children&#039;s Ministry<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How do you help people see ministry in action?\u00a0 For Compass Christian Church in Colleyville, Texas, it\u2019s a program they started last year called, Serve\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wwv.group.com\/childrens-ministry\/blog\/training\/connecting-people-to-ministry-serve-tour-live\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Connecting People to Ministry: Serve Tour Live - 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