# Ministries

> The ministries of your church, what each one needs, who leads it, and the people GiftWell thinks could serve there.

For: Pastor, Admin, Owner
Canonical: https://giftwell.app/docs/ministries

![Ministries: each with the gifts it needs, its leader, and the people who could serve.](/docs-img/ministries.png)

## 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](/docs/where-we-need-people) counts, and what [Introductions](/docs/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](/docs/your-ministries) and [Team and roles](/docs/team-and-roles).

## Who sees what

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