Do a background check. You certainly do not want to hire someone convicted of a felony or someone who has engaged in child abuse. Conduct a second interview with another person in the room, and when you hire, always have a probationary period. Parnell said in addition to the obvious need to hire Christians in a church center, hire those who understand the weekday program is a ministry of the church. You are the leader.
Planning is the thinking that takes place before the action occurs.
Take time to think, to visualize what can be. In other sessions, Lois Gamble and Bob Couch, authors of a Weekday Early Education Administrative Guide to be released by LifeWay in January 2001, offered additional guidance. Gamble, a consultant and former director of weekday education at Hyde Park Baptist Church, Austin, Texas, stressed the need for personnel policies and operating procedures to lessen misunderstandings and provide plans of action. Couch, a church consultant who retired as a senior consultant in childhood education with LifeWay, urged convention participants to remember that Christian weekday early education is a ministry. He said every chapter in the new administrative guide is written with Christian ministry as one of the expected results.