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Kairos is the creative leadership team at South Hills Church Community. Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the "right or opportune moment"; a time in which something special happens. In rhetoric kairos is "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved." In the New Testament kairos means "the appointed time in the purpose of God", the time when God acts (e.g. Mark 1.15, the kairos is fulfilled). What:
Kairos will be comprised of four creative leadership teams. Worship, Visual Arts, Relational, and Publicity. These teams will provide an outlet for creative gifts latent in the membership of our church. It is an opportunity to organize, equip, motivate, and deploy a small army of volunteers and staff into service and ministry at South Hills. Teams will get a preview of where we are going as a church in the months to come, and will play a key role in planning and implementing our church services and creative ministries. Who:
Kairos is open to high school upperclassmen and older. We encourage applicants to consider Kairos their primary ministry in the church. This is something for anyone who wants to be more than a spectator in our church, and who is not already serving regularly with another ministry. We have some very competent and creative people pitching in, but little support, encouragement, and communication. Kairos seeks to nurture, expand, and grow our creative ministries. Why:
To bring excellence and creativity to our church communications and media. The Kairos, that passing instant that we come together as a body for a church service is an opportunity for us to draw near to Christ, to each other, and to the community at large. Our creative leadership team will focus intently on specific aspects of the church experience and environment, sharing the burden and blessing of serving the Church in our worship services. When:
The plan is to meet biweekly for prayer, discipleship, relationship/team building, and strategy. As we map out our teaching schedule and themes for 2008, we’re looking for 20 to 40 individuals who want to dream, plan, and carry out the ministry of our worship services and communications. One of our first tasks as a team will be to get the worship center ready for Christmas.
Teams:
Worship – This team will be made up of our musicians and audio console operators. This is the only team that will require an in-person audition. Team members will focus on bringing sonic excellence to our services. Visual Arts / Publicity
This team is painted with a broad brush, but team members should expect to contribute to the aesthetic quality of our worship services and communications. The Visual Arts / Publicity team will produce artwork for our projected imagery, work on our church website, our bulletins and forthcoming newsletter, and the beautification and theme of the worship center and gathering room. This group will also produce videos and script creative monologues to motivate attendance at events and ministries. This group may also do some event planning. Relational
Greeters, Hosts, Nametaggers, and Followup people. This team may be encouraged to assist with our growth groups, create really cool give away bags for guests, call our people, pray for our church, deliver a meal for someone in need, meet, greet, and bless the broader church. We need extroverts to greet, introverts to build relationships, prayer warriors, evangelists, and every age group and demographic represented here.
Leaders
Three Kairos participants will be selected as team leaders. These individuals should be prepared to facilitate group discussions, and the scheduling and delegation of ministry tasks.
Term
Quarterly, we will open the teams to new applicants. Some participants may switch teams at this time. Discipleship and Relationships
Kairos will be a great way to meet people in the church, and it is our hope that our people will gather in the tradition of Acts 2:42, breaking bread together and investing time in each other outside of the structure of our meetings and services. We will intentionally seek to facilitate the building of relationships. We will also look at scripture together as a team. |
