Ministries

What a ministry is

A named area of your church's life with a short description, the gifts it needs chosen from the nine, who leads it from your team, and optionally a serving team it corresponds to in Planning Center. Children's ministry, the welcome team, worship, small groups, the food pantry.

Ministries are what results point to, what Where we need people counts, and what Introductions suggest.

Adding them

• By hand. Name, description, needed gifts, leader.
• From your website. When you give GiftWell your website address in Settings, it reads your ministries page and suggests ministries with their descriptions. You accept or ignore each one.
• From Planning Center. Connected churches can turn a Planning Center team into a ministry in one click, and the match stays linked.

What each ministry shows

Open a ministry for the people GiftWell thinks could serve there (those with a needed gift in their lead band, who shared their result, are free to serve and are not held back for age), the people already placed, and a line about how well the ministry's needs match what has been arriving.

Leaders

A ministry's leader is a member of your team with the leader role or above. Leaders see the people suggested for their ministries, their introductions and placements, and nothing about ministries they do not lead. See Your ministries and Team and roles.

Who sees what

Pastors, admins and the owner add and edit ministries. Leaders see their own under My ministries.