On this episode we dive into the world of virtual assistants and how this up-and-coming working arrangement can transform supercharge your ministry.

FULL SHOW NOTES:

• Virtual Ministry Assistants: partnering with churches in administrative areas like communication, finances, database, website, social media, and so on.
  • The vision is to take on some of the work distracts ministry leaders and staff from the primary work they are called and gifted to do.
• Post-COVID, more and more churches are realizing the online ministry and social media is a vital part of how they reach people.
• Hiring someone locally by the hour, you add $8-$10 per hour for benefits and such. Also paying for lunch break, cooler talk, management, and so on. The cost is often lower overall to hire a virtual assistant (even at a higher rate per hour).
• Often having a local volunteer doing the things that can only be done locally makes a great pairing with a paid virtual assistant.
• Build systems with your assistant like a rhythmic week or limiting the amount of draining meetings on each day.
• The ideal church for a ministry assistant:
  • Spending time doing administrative work rather than ministrys
  • I don’t really want to do this but I HAVE to do this
  • In a gap between staffing (someone left and no one has been hired yet to replace them)
• Contact the Virtual Ministry Assistants team: virtualministryassistants.com
• Contact Aqueelah: aqueelah.ligonde@ministryarchitects.com
• Contact Melissa: melissa@ministryarchitects.com
• Contact Trabelus: trabelus.whitfield@ministryarchitects.com