Here is a step-by-step workbook for authorizing and empowering teams in your congregation. The principles and guidelines are adaptable to churches that have one core team of lay ministers or as many as one hundred teams of volunteers and staff in ministry. Teams can use this workbook to craft mission statements and then walk through the ground rules and dynamics of group process. Recognition and reward systems are proposed so that exceptional performance may be honored without creating the kind of competition that produces nasty church fights.
