Below you will find resources and trainings for specific committees, jobs, and volunteer positions within the church (including video, guidelines and booklets, websites, and one page executive summaries). For the general guidelines you can click on this link to access the UMC’s 2025-2028 Online Content for Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation

Administrative Resources

Training that helps with the structure and daily operations of church life.

• Church Council

  • Video Training for Church Council, Guidelines Booklet for Church Council, and Executive Summary and Articles for:

    • Church Council Chair: A Starting Point for Those New to the Role

    • Chair of Church Leadership Team/Church Council/Administrative Board

    • Book of Discipline: ¶ 252. The Church Council

• Board of Trustees

  • Video and guidelines booklet outlining general committee responsibilities.

• Finance and Stewardship Committee

  • Video teaching series on Financial Ethics and guidelines booklet outlining general finance and stewardship committee responsibilities.

    • Counters Training & Best Practices

      • Videos, resources and booklet outlining financial stewardship, accountability, and integrity.

        • church360 Member Training Webinars Session 3: Entering Offerings (video)

        • church360 help desk for recording offerings (text and links)

        • church360: How to record offerings (video)

        • Offering Entry (text)

      • Best practices:

        • Best Practices from ResourceUMC - https://www.resourceumc.org/en/content/8-best-practices-for-handling-church-offering-pog

        • Best Practices from Oregon/Idaho Annual Conference - https://www.umoi.org/blogdetail/inspiring-generosity-best-practices-for-handling-your-church-offering-17488233

    • Fund Balance Report

    • Treasurer

• Staff-Parish Relations Committee (SPRC)

  • Video and guidelines booklet outlining general committee responsibilities.

• Nominations and Leadership Development Committee

  • Guidelines Booklet for Nominations

Ministry Resources

Training that supports the work of worship, discipleship, and care within the church.

• Next Steps

• Small Group Ministries

  • Guidelines Booklets for:

    • Adult Ministry

    • Small Groups Ministry

    • Women’s Ministry

    • Men’s Ministry

  • Executive Summary and Articles:

    • Wesleyan Small-Group Resources

    • Essential Elements of a Small Group

    • How to Start a Small Group

• Anchored Ministries

  • Kids

  • Guidelines Booklet for Children’s Ministry

    Students

  • Guidelines Booklet for Young Peoples Ministry

• Building and Property Maintenance Ministry

• Worship

  • Tech Team Training

    • Video resources for those serving in worship media, sound, livestreaming, and projection:

    • ProPresenter
      https://youtu.be/M7z-I2eU654?feature=shared
      https://youtu.be/tb7UatDBGAI?feature=shared

    • OBS
      https://youtu.be/-puA85ciDEM?feature=shared

    • OBS with ProPresenter (lower thirds)
      https://youtu.be/XRxOKMkCcoY?feature=shared

    • X32 Soundboard
      https://youtu.be/hAvcE4yIvR4?feature=shared
      https://youtu.be/JO9Is6zfY2g?feature=shared

  • Greeters

  • Ushers

  • Worship Participants

Missional Resources

Training that equips us to love our neighbors and serve the world in Christ’s name.

• Video Training for community outreach:

  • https://leadership-academy29.teachable.com/p/congregational-vitality-community-outreach

• Guidelines Booklet for Missions

A Work in Progress

This is just the beginning! More trainings and resources will continue to be added as we build a comprehensive library to support every area of church life.

Our prayer is that these tools will help you develop your gifts, strengthen the ministries of the church, and most of all, glorify Christ.