RELEVANT CHILDREN'S MINISTRY

Tweak Head: someone who consistently looks for ways to "tweak" or improve their ministry. 

Don't consider yourself a tweak head?  No worries...anyone can do it.  It just takes intentionality.  Here's some tips on how to be a tweak head.

• Don't get comfortable.  It's easy to hit "cruise control."  Things are going okay.  No major issues.  The only problem...where you are today won't suffice for where you need to be six months from now. 

• Evaluate everything you are doing every year.  How can you tweak it to make it better?  What needs to be added?  What should be changed or dropped?

• Sit down after every event and tweak it.  What worked well?  What didn't work well?  What was broke?  What was confusing?  What can we add to improve it? 

• Keep a tweak list.  Each week, walk around your ministry and look for things that need to be tweaked.  Keep a list.

Just think...if you tweak one thing a week...a year from now your ministry will be 52 times better!

Great teams watch the game film.  In other words, they evaluate what they are doing.  They are very intentional about looking for ways to improve.

Do you watch the game film of your children's ministry?  With our pace, that's not always easy.  But it's vital if you're going to get better.

Here's five questions to sit down and answer after your weekend or event.

1. What worked well?
2. What was broken?
3. What was confusing?
4. What was missing?
5. What's one thing we can do to make it better?

Make some time this week to watch the film.

p.s. In this previous post, I share an idea about how to "watch the film" in your children's ministry.