Ministry Profiling to Find the Best Fit

Training Category: Staffing Ministry

Staffing to Find the Best Fit, Matching the Right Person to the Right Task

In doing a ministry assessment you will determine what ministries need to be happening in order for you to accomplish God's purposes and design for your church or ministry organization. The next step is to

determine the people resources
needed for these ministries.

To effectively accomplish the tasks or positions within these ministries, people should have the right gifts, heart passions, and personality. Their experience and walk with God would also be factors to consider.

While each ministry leader can be responsible for his/her own staffing needs, a central staff coordinator greatly facilitates the process. This person would have an awareness of the big picture to help prevent people from being overused or misused. This person would be responsible for matching the right person to the right task. That is done through ministry profiling.

Finding the Best Fit Using Ministry Profiling

Whether you are that central staff coordinator or a leader of a specific area, the steps for ministry profiling are basically the same.

  1. Make sure you, as the staff coordinator or ministry leader, have a good understanding of ministry profiling.
  2. Develop a profile of the type of person who would be best suited for each ministry position or task needed to accomplish each area of ministry.
    • What spiritual gift(s) should this person have?
       

      In addition to the content on this page, the Staffing Ministry Manual includes a list of spiritual gifts used in different ministry areas, a manually scoring spiritual gifts test measuring the seven gifts in Romans 12, and a one page assessment form to use for personality traits that simply requires people to mark where they would fall on the spectrum of certain opposite traits that could affect how they serve. You are permitted to copy and use the spiritual gifts test and personality traits assessment in your ministry.

    • Is it important for this person to have a heart (passion) for a particular age group, gender, social status, need, issue, or type of ministry?
       
    • Are there personality traits that would either help or hinder a person in this ministry?
       
    • Should the person have experience in a certain task?
       
    • Should there be a certain maturity level in someone's walk with God for this particular ministry?
  3. Develop ministry profiles for each person in the church or at least for the people you want to consider for a certain ministry position to use in the recruitment stage of staffing to determine if the person is a good fit.
    • You can teach on it and develop the profiles as part of the classroom experience. -- See the Everybody Has a Part Spiritual Gifts Curriculum.
    • You can administer a spiritual gifts test to help you identify people's gifting. The Spiritual Gifts Tests Resource can help you do that. (Please note: The MAX Pak includes the curriculum, tests resource, and book.)
    • You can make the development of a person's ministry profile part of a newcomers or membership class.
    • You can provide one-on-one counsel during which time you either develop a person's ministry profile or discuss it with them.
  4. Maintain records of the results of your assessment for each person.
    • Include in those records vital statistics for contacting purposes, gender, and age.
    • Also include the person's spiritual gifts, passions, and experience (what he/she has done in the past, what he/she is currently doing, what he/she is willing to do).
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