These 5 descriptions provide you with a template to know how to get the right person in the right place. This is just a brief summary of this placement concept. You can email Doco for more help with the issue or purchase his book, Spiritual Gifts, Your Job Description from God.

Apostolic/Administrator

Gifting: Apostle or the gift of Administration

Main Role: Coordinate all the other staff on a weekly basis. This may or may not mean weekly meetings. Primary role is to keep them motivated and focused on the church vision and their role in fulfilling the vision through the individual ministries they oversee. This is their role in horizontal leadership.

Vertical leadership is when the five-fold apostle administrator at least monthly motivates and coordinates all other administrators over other ministries to make sure they are fulfilling their role in motivating the leadership in their ministries.

Prophet

Gifting: Prophetic

Main role is to make sure the church gets in touch with God and allows God to speak to the church (through prophecy, preaching, gifting, worship, etc.). Their role is to work in the five-fold to make sure that they keep close to God in prayer and intercession and make sure that every time they get together they seek God’s leadership and direction. To keep the spiritual impact alive and well in the five-fold. The prophet needs to make sure that there is adequate dynamic worship taking place during the Sunday morning or regular service time so that the congregation senses that they are able to worship God and that God is able to speak to them through that worship experience. That is there role in the horizontal leadership.

In vertical leadership they have to motivate all the prophets and prayer warriors in the church to make sure that the ministries that these prophets are involved in are constantly seeking God’s guidance and direction in all that the ministry does and every time they get together. Often the prophet is encourages praise and worship to take place in their ministries.

Evangelist and Outreach

Gifting: Evangelist or the gift of Mercy (burden for the lost)

Main role is to make sure that the five-fold keeps the burden of getting lost people saved and that evangelism is the main thrust in all outreach activities and services of the church. This person is responsible for all the outreach programs, big events, advertising, and television and programs in which the church might be involved. That is horizontal leadership.

Vertical leadership: The Evangelist role is to make sure that all the ministry teams in the church have an evangelist or outreach director whose main task is to grow that ministry by encouraging lay involvement. They are also responsible for making sure there is a soul winning team functioning in the church. One of the major roles of the evangelist is to oversee a team for big events once a quarter and monthly events to draw in visitors.

Pastoral Care Encourager

Gifts: Pastor or encouragement

Main role is the counselor, pastoral care person in the church. They are to make sure that pastoral care takes place in the five-fold and throughout the congregation. This is horizontal leadership.

Vertical leadership: The pastoral care encourager is responsible for making sure that every ministry team has one pastoral care person for no more than fourteen people on a team who the pastoral care person is responsible for calling each week as a personal prayer partner. Every ministry team is required to have one prayer partner (pastoral care person) to pray with them and to refer them on to the five-fold pastoral care person for major counseling problems. Small groups that are fellowship related normally come under the pastoral care person. Other times small groups that are ministry related come under the teacher/minister of education.

Teacher/Minister of Education

Giftings: Gift of Teaching

Main responsible in the five-fold is to make sure that discipleship is important and continues in all that is done in the church. Most times the minister of education is over all of the ministry groups that deal with teaching the scriptures from children’s ministries all the way through the Sunday school, men’s ministries, women’s ministries, etc. The minister of education is responsible for making sure that discipleship is the end result of people getting saved. This is done through determining a person’s giftedness and training them to use those gifts in ministry along with teaching them the basics of sound doctrine. This is horizontal leadership.

Vertical Leadership: The minister of education/teacher’s role is to make sure that every ministry in the church has a teacher/trainer to make sure what ever teaching of the scriptures that need to be done are done according the church doctrine. Also, that every ministry have a teacher/trainer who trains everybody in there ministry on how to do there role for that ministry. Many times small groups that are ministry related come under the teacher/minister of education. Other small groups that are fellowship related normally come under the pastoral care person.