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--- emerson:stone-soup [2025/04/14 02:37] – [Ministries] naptastic
+++ emerson:stone-soup [2025/04/29 17:25] (current) – [Points Currently Lost] Volunteer assignments must be centrally managed. naptastic
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     * The word "team" also gets used in places; I'd rather use "team" to describe a group responsible for a given service.
   * We need to grapple with the bougie, the out-of-touch, the icky...
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+I have been trying to avoid this for months, but I can't see any way around it: Volunteer effort and assignments need to be managed centrally.
+That doesn't mean people can't have initiative and start their own things, but... (just kind of thinking out loud here)
+If the rule is, everybody has at most two callings, and the first one has to be something the church needs, and it doesn't have to be something the person wants to do. The "callings people want" are secondary callings. Doing the work of the church has to be the priority.
+Teams and committees should not be allowed to ask people for help directly. They should have to ask for volunteer time from a central committee.
+I can't see another way to structure a volunteer organization that doesn't result in abuse of volunteers and misappropriation of volunteer time. (Don't suggest tracking hours. That doesn't work.)
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 [[emerson:stone-soup:acoustics|Acoustic Treatment]]
-Policy recommendation: Storage space is a resource around which we need to set boundaries. It's great that Emerson Players is self-funded, but how much storage unit space did you not have to pay for because we subsidized it by misusing our buildings? (Ok that sounds resentful, sorry)
 [[emerson:stone-soup:control-room|Control Room]] - Convert one the offices upstairs in Westwood hall into an A/V booth.