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CTM Ministry Environments for Volunteer Opportunities |
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| Prayer Support |
One of the member churches calls prayer the “engine room” of its ministries. As you pray for everyone in/around the ministry, remember to take every thought captive in obedience to Christ – with all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit. |
| Administrative Support |
Coordinating, communicating and monitoring the details of the ministry is an important function so that volunteers in each of the ministry environments are “being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies.” |
| Public Relations/Publicity Suport |
One of every three people thinks about changing jobs or careers, but it is not the same people every week. Therefore, continual publicity is important so that when people feel the need, they see and hear about the ministry. Develops and executes plan for promoting and publicizing the benefits of the Ministry in the church and in the community using Social networking forums, internet sources, ministry blogs, publications, announcements, bulletin boards, church website, community media and other available means of promotion.
Our Public Relations services are about positioning our ministry as a reliable and knowledgeable resource with the media to foster on-going news coverage on relevant issues that support CTM’s mission.
News coverage is accomplished through two avenues:
Identifying compelling story ideas on services for specific editors and reporters based on their individual area of interest and/or their audience. Writing and submitting routine press releases on organization events, staff and
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Weekly Workshop Support
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The great advantage of weekly workshops is gaining visibility for the ministry by the bringing together of many people at one time in one place – especially for attracting people from the community, through the local media, newspapers, radio, TV.
Our core ministry service will be built around the weekly Career Transition Ministry Workshops. |
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Employer Support
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Employers Interested in Recruiting Thru Churches?
Who would have guessed? But it is true - according to a 2001 national survey conducted by the Society of Human Resources Management for WallStreet.Com. An important part of an employer’s recruiting strategy should include churches – which are not only places of faith, but also of life, families and community. Many faith-based organizations offer significant resources for people's finances and work lives. For over ten years, hundreds of church volunteers have been helping thousands of career explorers find jobs, career direction and even God's calling. |
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Network Meetings
| To provide people at a crossroads in their careers with contacts, ideas and encouragement that will help them find a job, change careers and/or discover God’s calling. To introduce Career Explorers to volunteers and speakers who can help them one-on-one as well as to provide opportunities to learn from and be encouraged by one another. To share with Career Explorers the reality that God is calling them into a personal relationship with Him and to follow Him in every area of their lives. |
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Technical Support
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CTM will be providing one of the best organized and most complete Christ-centered job search, career exploration and calling discovery resources anywhere.
•Explorers: Find Jobs Online and On the Ground, Maximize Your Career with the Explorer Guide and Career Tools, Explore the 6 Steps and Get the Job!
•Employers: Find High Potential Candidates, Post Jobs for Free with Powerful Reach, Employer
Resources to Help Employees Succeed, Connect with Churches! |
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Relationship Development
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We all crave relationships. Both Christians and non-Christians desire to belong to a group—a family of friends they can trust with the truth about who they are. As believers, we have the opportunity to foster something powerful—biblical community. We strategically invite our church to experience authentic friendships the way God intended. This means doing life together, encouraging one another in Christ, and loving one another through the happy and difficult times.
Biblical community is the glue that will bind our church together, and it will absolutely baffle non-believers. Before people change their worldviews, practice spiritual discipline, or memorize Scripture, they have to belong. As we spend time with other members of our church, pray with them and serve them in unexpected ways. We can give each other the security we need to take risks in our faith. When we lay that foundation of trust and belonging, we enable God to transform the lives of our church members. No longer is coming to church just an isolated hour or two limited interaction; it goes deeper, building lasting community that influences our lives and the very threads of who we are.
Relationships are one of the greatest avenues that God has given us to discovering and applying God’s will to our lives. Relationships—particularly those with other Christ-followers— set the environment in which we can discover God’s will for our lives. |
| Growth Groups |
Accordingly, the CTM Christ-Centered Career Growth Group’s purpose is to provide both practical and emotional support to the both unemployed and misemployed group members through weekly, one hour, small group meetings that facilitate prayer, relationship development, encouragement, individual and group accountability, and an opportunity for service by loving friends.Growth Groups are centered on some key biblical principles that will help the career searcher to focus on the right priorities in their search and to rely on the support and caring of others in successfully achieving the two primary goals of this program:
1) lead people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and
2) to accelerate the time to reemployment in work that is consistent with their God-given talent. |
| Donor Development |
CTM needs to build its brand to educate the community about what we offer in order to remain viable in this competitive world. We must build emotional connections with people…and that doesn’t happen overnight.
We are looking for experienced professionals who have worked on the inside of non-profits and understand the challenges of building those connections first-hand.
It takes time. It takes money. And most of all, it takes a plan.
Finding money to sustain our ministry is no easy task. CTM is faced with declining funding from federal, state and local governments as well as increased competition for funding from philanthropic organizations.
As a result, we must seek alternative revenue sources. This takes strategy, planning, and a lot of time.
It’s not about money. It’s about relationships.
Existence of an active major gifts program is the leading factor to overall success of CTM’s fundraising. Donor development, or relationship-fundraising, is at the center of a successful major gifts program, because it is less expensive for CTM to develop its relationships with current donors than it is to cultivate new ones.
CTM needs to educate and inspire our constituents to believe that they can make a difference, then help them make it.
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