Organization Chart

Question: If you were making an organizational chart for the church, how would you place people in leadership and the working side (business) of the church; who does it, where, when, how?

Answer: To me there are a few workable models. One is the fractal model used by Wayne Cordero. The other is the one we employ at Grace Covenant. Both include the idea that the Senior Pastor has a few direct reporting individuals who in turn oversee others. The fractal model may have 4-6 pastors or leaders providing oversight over segments of the ministry.

At Grace Covenant, the Senior Pastor has two direct reports who provide oversight to the staff. For us the Executive Pastor provides leadership to all the other associate pastors and guides the operations of the programmatic side of the church. The Administrative Pastor provides leadership for the ministry support staff, accounting department, facilities, school and other business/administrative aspects of the ministry. To do it over again, I could not say that every ministry would have a pastor leading it. The idea of full-time compensated directors leading ministries would probably come into discussion if we were totally reorganizing things.