I sat in on Saddleback‘s most recent staff meeting where the Executive Pastor was discussing his retirement. I found this to be really neat and gave me an inside look to Rick and his staff.
But broadcasting your staff meeting publicly might not “sit” well with everyone. What are your thoughts?
The comment section is yours.
Bryan Willmert says
we run multi campus and speaking from a campus specific side, we have used ustream before to tie in a few key people who work full-time outside of the church.. as a whole organization, we don’t broadcast our all staff meetings but we do currently communication with a campus out of state through video. we are constantly looking at our thoughts on this and what we should/could be doing.. im excited to see the view from others sites too.
JayCaruso says
I think it’s a great idea.
Am I right when I say the Drive Conference is basically an amped up version of a Northpoint staff meeting?
I think it would work very well for some new church plants to “sit in” on the staff meetings of some established churches to see what they discuss, how they tackle issues, vision-casting, etc.
John Saddington says
that’s a good observation. yeah, pretty much.
Jordan Wiseman says
I’ve never really thought about this before, actually.
I guess it seems cool when you’re Saddleback, but for most churches there just isn’t a point to it.
However, at Lima Community Church, we do this thing every once in a while called “Pastor’s Chat” where our senior pastor talks about what’s going on around the church, etc., and people can ask questions, hence the name. We had one back in April and we streamed it via Livestream because there were a few people who wanted to attended but they were physically unable. So, I guess it could work for situations like that.
Adam Shields says
Seems like a good idea for informational meetings. Probably not a good idea for discussions, especially controversial discussions.
Stephen Bateman says
It would tend to keep the meetings more civil!
Brandon Cox says
When I was a Pastor, admittedly our staff meetings were often just “meetings” with very little in the way of worship, inspiration, or dreaming. Making them public forces you to do those things – to lead others to inspiration and not just cover an agenda.
Gordon Marcy says
Well, we never did that before, why would we want to start now.
Seriously, we could have always had open meetings in the past. I suspect the reason we didn’t is mainly due to the unique nature of the relationship between leaders and their teams. Having “guests” would completely alter the dynamics of the relationships, and alter the freedom of the open give and take. I was a lay leader in a congregational rule church that had open board/staff meetings every two months. 8 hours on buying a new boiler and changing the color of paint in the worship center. Never again.
I could see specially called or planned meetings for specific purposes that would fit a broadcast setting well. Vision-casting, community outreach projects, prayer, sharing of a church-wide burden, etc.
Trevor Taylor says
I am kinda torn on this. It gives the church staff transparency and allows the church members to be more aware of the inter workings of the church. On the other hand, it would encourage some staff to hold back, which means there might be unresolved issues that needed to be discussed.
Rodlie says
I’d love to check something like this out!! Where could I see this? Is there a certain link?