Week Three – Administrative Work – David

Administrative Work
Brookhaven Wesleyan Church
I interviewed Pastor John Walton the assistant pastor
January 21, 2009

60% preparing for music
20% Spiritual Formation
20% Missions

Monday: clean up day –he gets all his stuff organized so the week can go smooth
Tuesday: Communication days –he contacts his people.
Wednesday: Teach Bible studies and have staff meetings
Thursday: Meet with Praise team
Firday and Saturday: day off (sometimes there are things to attend. Usually visitations)
Sunday: Worship and Praise

Pastor John Walton is an assistant pastor at Brookhaven Wesleyan church. His responcibility in the church is music, spiritual formation, and missions. For music, he is responsible for worship leading, commmunicating, organizing, creating, and presenting with/to the congregation. For spiritual formation, he is responsible for recruiting, organizing communicating, and teaching. For missions, he is responsible for recruiting, communicating, organixing, implementing, and presenting loaca and global missions to everyone.

With these three responsibilities as his prime focus, he still has other pastoral responsibilities like: visitations, weekly meetings, building/facility jobs, funeral help, preaching, and many more.

Observations:
Pastors have too many things to do with too little of time.
Pastors have many little jobs that people would not think of them having to do.
Everyone in the office has to take part in the work within it, and the pastors have to take part in their share of locking the doors or fixing the budget or whatever.
Pastor John has to manage his time wisely or he will not be able to handle things.
There is a lot of pressure on Pastors to get things done on time or they will be taking time out of something else that needs to get done.