Week 4 Administrative Work - Anton Folz

#10 Week 4 Administrative Work – Anton Folz April 13th 09
1. I interviewed Rev. Brad Terhune on February 9th, 09 at Lakeview Wesleyan Church.
2. The numbered list of the things that Pastor Brad does as administrative work, and the total time that he spends.
1- Working on the church website
2- Connecting with parents and planning Upward practice times and games
3- Planning for committee meetings
4- Filing papers
5- Planning and stocking the Coffee Shop
6- Managing blogs and various other means to promote coffee shop and other ministries
7- Creating and placing the monthly updated events for the church in the bathrooms and in key places around the church building
All together Rev Brad Terhune spends approximately fifteen hours a week doing administrative and office management related tasks.

3. Observations from the interview.
Overall it was very interesting to see just how much time goes into all the paper work that allows the church to be public with the ministries that exist in the life of the church. Rev Brad spends a great deal of his time working on organizing teams and volunteers to allow for the ministries to be open. No one man or woman could run al of those ministries, thus it takes a team of volunteers to make them all run efficiently. There is more office work to be done than one might expect when first going into ministry. Without the proper office and administrative skills, a pastor will sink in paper work and fail as a result of not having organized ministries.