SECOND CHAIR.

The staff

Meet your staff.

Three seats are filled on day one. Thirteen more chairs are open when you need them, at $99 a month each.

The report tells you which seats your church is already paying for in evenings and volunteer hours.

Seated on day one

Three seats. About 14 hours a week back.

Each one reads your sermons, your site, and your bulletins, and nothing else. What it produces lands in your queue on Monday. You approve it, or you don't.

1

Seated · 6 hrs a week off your desk · as a hire, $42,000 a year

Communications

On your desk Monday

  • Sunday announcements, four items, in your voice
  • The weekly email and two captions from the same four items
  • A flag on any event with no owner or no details

Will never

  • Writes a sermon
  • Posts or sends without your approval
2

Seated · 4 hrs a week off your desk · as a hire, $36,000 a year

Follow-up & Connections

On your desk Monday

  • A note to every first-time guest, naming what they wrote on the card
  • The two-week check-in and the next-step invitation
  • The list: who visited, who was contacted, who came back

Will never

  • Answers a pastoral need itself; those go to a person
  • Contacts anyone without your approval
3

Seated · 4 hrs a week off your desk · as a hire, $36,000 a year

Volunteer Coordinator

On your desk Monday

  • Next month's schedule from who served and who is available
  • Tuesday reminders and the open slots
  • Asks to people who have not served lately, before you need them

Will never

  • Schedules anyone without your approval
  • Chases people on your behalf

Open chairs

Thirteen more seats, when you need them.

The Chief of Staff comes with the base. Every other chair is $99 a month, and each one carries the same covenant and the same Monday rhythm.

Chief of Staff4 hrs/wk

The Monday brief: what is due this week, who owns it, what slipped.

Never: makes a decision for you; sends anything.

Comes with the baseIncluded
Front Door4 hrs/wk

Every care email and form acknowledged within the hour, in words you wrote once.

Never: counsels anyone; handles a crisis; it goes to a person with no draft.

Pull up a chair+$99/mo
Youth Curriculum3 hrs/wk

The weekly lesson outline from your curriculum, with supplies and questions.

Never: touches children's data; it is refused at the door; writes to a child.

Pull up a chair+$99/mo
Kids Ministry Curriculum3 hrs/wk

The lesson for each kids room, from Sunday's sermon, with the game, the object lesson, the questions and the supply list.

Never: touches children's data; it is refused at the door; writes to a child.

Pull up a chair+$99/mo
Ops / HR3 hrs/wk

SOPs written from your voice memos.

Never: sees payroll; makes a hiring decision.

Pull up a chair+$99/mo
Project & Implementation Manager3 hrs/wk

Every event and facility request as a checklist with an owner.

Never: books a room without your approval.

Pull up a chair+$99/mo
Translation ES/EN2 hrs/wk

Every approved draft in Spanish and English.

Never: translates a sermon for delivery without your review of every line.

Pull up a chair+$99/mo
Creative2 hrs/wk

Design briefs for the week's pieces.

Never: publishes a design.

Pull up a chair+$99/mo
Finance / Reporting3 hrs/wk

The weekly giving summary, totals only.

Never: sees individual gifts; touches the bank or the giving platform.

Pull up a chair+$99/mo
Strategy & Planning2 hrs/wk

The annual calendar drafted from your goals.

Never: sets the vision; that is yours.

Pull up a chair+$99/mo
Development2 hrs/wk

Giving campaign drafts from aggregates.

Never: sees who gave what; sends an ask.

Pull up a chair+$99/mo
Worship & Production Admin3 hrs/wk

The order of service, drafted from your plan.

Never: touches the platform; that stays yours to run.

Pull up a chair+$99/mo
Groups & Discipleship3 hrs/wk

Group rosters and leader notes, kept current.

Never: confirms membership; that stays with a person; sends anything without your approval.

Pull up a chair+$99/mo
Social & Content3 hrs/wk

This week's captions and clip notes, from the sermon and the calendar.

Never: replies to a comment without your approval; posts anything itself.

Pull up a chair+$99/mo

The math

Three hires, or three seats.

$114,000/yr

The three seated roles as real hires, at conservative church salaries, before taxes and benefits

$596/mo

These three seats with your Chief of Staff: $299 for the assistant and the workspace, $99 a seat. Setup included.

Founding churches lock every seat at $79 a month for 36 months. The full table, all seventeen seats, is $1,883 a month.

How a hire starts

An onboarding week, then a Monday.

  • Week one. The seats read your sermons, your site, and your bulletins, and produce a first-week report. You review it with Lonnell in a 20-minute call.
  • Every Monday. The queue fills overnight. Each draft shows where it came from. You approve, edit, or skip. Nothing sends on its own.
  • Day ninety. A performance review of your staff: drafts produced, approval rate, hours given back, and what to change.
The covenant. We run your church office. We never touch the pulpit or pastoral care. Minors' information is refused at the door. Individual giving is never visible, only totals. Anything that sounds like a crisis goes straight to a person, with no draft written.

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