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The Single Biggest Mistake Church Planters Make

2. Hire Admin Help Prior to Ministry Staffing.

John Maxwell used to say that the first person that a pastor should hire is an admin assistant. Seriously? Before any other hire?

But think about it. Church planters do everything themselves. We pick up the mail, print bulletins, return every email, pay all of the bills, deal with the legal stuff and all kinds of other things that we never learned to do in seminary. Much of the work that we do as church planters has little to do with pastoring.

By hiring some admin help early on, you will free up a lot of hours to do pastoral ministry that you would otherwise spend doing 10-12 dollar an hour admin tasks. A church planter should spend as much time as possible doing ministry and delegate as much admin as possible to someone else who can do this.

Invest a few hundred dollars a month in some admin help before paying another pastor a few thousand dollars a month. Paying for admin help costs far less than paying for ministry staff.

Admin help: inexpensive.

Freeing up 15 hours a week to spend more time with people: priceless.