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Using Your Spiritual Gifts in Ministry

BENEVOLENCE / CARING MINISTRIES:  While mercy and giving are the most obvious gifts to use in a benevolence type of ministry, certain ministries within it might also use the gifts of exhortation, hospitality or service. You might serve God in a caring ministry in these ways:  cards/flowers for special occasions, counselors, emergency child-care, emergency shelter, food & clothing distribution, financial assistance, greeters, provide meals, sick/shut-in, special needs, support group, telephone contacting, transportation to services/doctors/store, visitation.

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION:  The gift of administration is most helpful for coordinating one of the following ministries. People with the leadership gift could help take these ministries to the next level but unless accompanied by the gift of administration or a personality bent toward administrative efficiency, they might struggle with doing what it takes to maintain or sustain these ministries. Teaching, wisdom, and/or knowledge also have a place in this area of ministry: age-level coordinator, camp director, children's director, children's church coordinator, children's club coordinator, director of Christian education, special education coordinator, Sunday School superintendent, VBS director, youth director

COMMUNICATIONS: People with the gifts of helps and/or service might find themselves involved in these ways: audiovisual aids, drama, film/video making, graphic arts, illustrating, letter writing, music, newsletter, photography, publicity, radio-TV directing, sound system, telephoning

COUNSELING:  While exhortation tends to be the most prominently used gift to counsel, the gifts of wisdom and healing might also be used (people might need emotional healing, not just physical): Stephen Ministry, care-group, crises, discipleship, family, financial, group, individual, pastoral, peer, telephone intervention

HOSPITALITY:  In addition to those with the hospitality gift, people with the gift of service could find themselves doing related tasks: entertaining, fellowship, greeters, host a brunch, coffee or tea, lodging, meals, open house, parties of various purposes, reception desk, singles' gatherings, visitation, youth get-togethers

OUTREACH:  People gifted as evangelists and missionaries would be involved in outreach, but so might someone with the gift of apostle or prophecy: baptisms, church planting, door-to-door, evangelistic events, group witness, inner-city, invitation counselor, missionary, one-on-one witness, park ministry, street evangelism, support missionaries (visit, letters, contacts), tract distribution, visitation, visitor follow-up(letters, phone calls, visits), web evangelism