What are the Responsibilities Elder/Overseer/Pastor? (Overseer Training 3)

Welcome back to the podcast! In today's episode we'll finish up our Oversee Training series, discussing the responsibilities of a church leader.

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Responsibilities

• Pray for your campus regularly
• Prayer doesn’t get us ready for the bigger work.  Prayer is the bigger work. 
• Swan - If we haven’t prayed we haven’t started. 
• All overseers should be on campus prayer team
• Be an active participant in overseer meetings
• Come prepared, review agenda doc beforehand
• Be ready to give an update on the serving teams you’re overseeing
• Listen to any podcasts, read any articles that are going to be discussed in the meeting
• Monitor progress of the campus
• Attendance
• Mentoring handoffs
• Giving
• Small Group attendance
• Decide on issues of church discipline
• Decide on issues of benevolence
• Financial Help Request Form 
• Assist campus pastor in leading the discipleship efforts at the campus
• connections/handoffs
• Baptism requests, prayer requests, wedding requests are all opportunities to make a handoff for mentoring
• Tracking them in Planning Center 
• Being diligent in following up  
• Oversee at least one serving team/serving team leader at the campus
• Check in monthly
• Report needs and health of team during monthly overseer meetings 
• Assist in recruiting volunteers for teams you oversee