DELIVERANCE CHURCH-UGANDA

“I will give you every place where you set your foot” Joshua 1:3

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ORGANISATION CHART OF A LOCAL CHURCH
Features:

1.Authority (reflecting chain of command and accountability). - Bold line

2.Relationships (Functional). - Dotted line

 3.Brief job description

4.Scope of boundaries of operation.

Key Scriptures:

Numbers 2.1-34: All tribes were involved but each tribe knew its area of concern and who its leader was.

Ezekiel 48.1-35: Every tribe had specific portion of the land for which it was responsible. The verses 30  35 show us a perfect guard of the city. Again we see how all the tribes are involved in watching over the city. Only then could the city be called “THE LORD IS THERE”.

Exodus 18: THE JETHRO PRINCIPLE  DELEGATION AND SCOPE OF WORK.

Points derived From the Scriptures:

1.Everyone in the congregation is important and must be involved in the life of the fellowship.

2.Everyone must have a defined and specific area of responsibility.

3.All areas of operation must have clear leadership.

4.No area of the fellowship must be left unattended to.

5.The Lord’s presence (“THE LORD IS THERE”) will come about where there is order as it says elsewhere that God is not a God of confusion but of order (1 Cor.14.33).

NOTES ON THE ORGANISATION CHART

1.Ministry and Spiritual Gifts ( Eph. 4:11; 1 Cor.12, 12, 14; Rom. 12): These gifts are diverse according to the scriptures quoted. No one in the body of Christ can function effectively unless God has gifted him for that office. That is why the gifts are placed above all the various offices indicated on the Organisation Chart.

2.Team:This is the Apostolic Ministry Team of Deliverance Church Uganda. It is the one, which ordains elders and sets in pastors in all the Deliverance Churches.

3.Joshua Group/Team: This group is the Ministry Team’s striking force in the field. The Team to which it is answerable puts it in place and it functions on the Team’s delegated authority. It under guards the Team on matters of policy, doctrine, visitations to pastors and local churches, identification of issues that require attention and drawing the Team’s necessary action (where they have no solution). The Joshua members who are pastors have authority to wed couples but those who are not pastors can only do so on the Team’s request. The Joshuas also don’t ordain elders or appoint pastors into local churches.

4.The Pastor: The Team to which he is answerable sets him in. (Bold line). He is the vision bearer of the local church. He is the Accounting Officer of the local church. He must be conversant with the general church life and he is answerable to the Team for the church’s progress, deterioration or stagnation. He holds executive powers for activities in the church and transactions must go through him before reaching the Elders’ Board. The exception to this rule is where parties in the church are aggrieved and would like direct intervention of the Elders Board. The Pastor must also observe leadership in plurality; avoiding to make unilateral decisions governing the church without consulting the Board. That explains his functional relationship with the Elders Board. (dotted line).

5.Elders’ Board: The Board is set in by the Team to which it is answerable. (Bold line). It is the supreme governing body of the local Church. Its primary concern is devotion to PRAYER and the WORD (Acts 6.4). This is further broken down to mean praying, studying the word, teaching it and ensuring that sound doctrine is being practiced in the local church. It is also responsible for the appointing of deacons, functional committees in the church, leaderships of various departments and clubs, employment of members of the secretariat and the discipline of church members. The Board can assign various ones of their members responsibilities of specific areas.

6.The Deacons Board:The Board is appointed and set in by the Elders Board to which it is answerable (bold line). It Also has a functional relationship with the Pastor because of the nature of its work (dotted line). It is the active body of the church, handling services (“diakonia”). This function is commonly known as “serving tables” (Acts. 6.26). This explains why it is in direct touch with the different active departments of the church as reflected on the chart. The Board can assign one of their members responsibility of specific areas.

7.Ministers: This group comprises people in the local church who are pronouncedly gifted in various areas of ministry e.g Evangelism, Prophecy, Teaching, Praise and Worship, Administration. At the same time they are not functioning in the other offices already defined on the chart. In order to promote their gifting and also to benefit the church, provision is made under the office of ‘MINISTERS’. They could be employed as part of the secretariat or they could be regularly utilised in the local church as the Elders Board deems it fit.

8.Committees: These are technical bodies appointed by the ELDERS BOARD to study and make necessary proposals for consideration and approval. They are answerable to the Board and not final in themselves. Examples are Finance Committee, Development Committee, Building Committee. The committees can liaise with anybody deemed helpful in the execution of their duties.

9.Community Units:These are sometimes referred to as house groups/cells/Koinonia. They are smaller units of the church set up in local areas for easy administration of the Church. Every member of the Church must belong to a Community Unit. A lot of individual concerns are solved at this level without burdening the higher levels of administration. For example, personal needs and problems should not be taken to the Pastor directly without being presented to the Community Unit leaders who in turn may present them to the deacon in charge. Only what the deacon cannot solve will reach the Pastor.

10.Clubs: These include: Children, Youths, Singles, Married people, Men, Women (Daughters of Zion), Recreation, Business etc.

11.Church members: This category includes everybody in the church. As you realise every member in the church who believes in body ministry has enough room to exercise this gifting. Functioning in the body of Christ is not necessarily acquiring of positions and titles in the church. You can be fulfilled in the Lord through the available channels as provided for in your local setting. May the good Lord help us to find our place of fulfillment in His body.

ACTION

Every group is encouraged to be deliberate and to plan properly their activities. Where finances are involved, a budget should be worked out and proposals of how funds are to be obtained made. For example, are the finances to come form the general fund of the church or from special contributions of members or from both sources? Remember that “When you fail to plan, you are planning to fail”. Plan well for your club or group. It is disappointing and sometimes quite embarrassing for a leader of a group to appear at the last minute asking the office to provide money for an activity. If that money was not prepared for in good time, misunderstandings could easily arise and the result might be development of strained relationships. Planning also includes timing of events. At least a three-month notice for an event is helpful and recommended. Where it is impracticable in terms of issuing ample notice, discretion can be used. Please, let everything be done in order.