06 – Organization Chart & Access

The Mayflower organizational chart — who serves where, reporting relationships, and how leaders access the chart when making decisions or onboarding.

Overview: Organization Chart & Access
Organization Chart and Access — Draft May 2026
Team-to-Board Oversight Map — Draft April 2026
Team Charters

Team Charter Standard
Ministry Oversight Proposals — Servants Council, July 11, 2026
Evangelism Team Charter
Worship Team Charter
Audio-Visual Team Charter
Scripture Reading Team Charter
Prayer Team Charter
Baptism Team Charter
Missions Team Charter
Shoebox Ministry Charter
EQUIP Discipleship Charter
Bible Fellowship Groups Charter
Women's Ministry Charter
DiscipleTown Charter — Version A (Elders-only, proposed)
DiscipleTown Charter — Version B (dual oversight, alternative)
Biblical Counseling Ministry Charter
Hospitality Team Charter
Nursery Team Charter
First Impressions Team Charter
Sanctuary Team Charter

Overview: Organization Chart & Access

Status

Implementation status: Approved by Servants Council

Date: 2026-05-30

Principle

Clarity about who serves where, who reports to whom, and how decisions flow is foundational to healthy operations. The org chart must be findable by leaders when they need it.

Mayflower's Current Practice

The organizational chart will be placed in a location that's accessible to all leaders.

Governance & Document References

Mayflower Constitution and Bylaws — four boards (Elders, Deacons, Trustees, Finance)
Mayflower Church Position Descriptions

Page template: Principle + Mayflower Practice. Part of The Streamline Admin System, adapted from Michael Lukaszewski's Streamline: How To Create Healthy Church Systems.

Organization Chart and Access — Draft May 2026

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Organization Chart & Access

Streamline System 06 — Overview

Draft May 2026

Governing Principle

Clarity about who serves where, who reports to whom, and how decisions flow is foundational to healthy operations. The org chart must be findable by leaders when they need it — not buried in a folder, not pieced together from memory, but a single, current, authoritative picture of how Mayflower is organized.

A church that cannot see itself cannot lead itself. The organizational chart, kept current and kept accessible, is the picture by which staff, officers, board members, and ministry leaders see the body of which they are a part — and locate themselves within it.

Mayflower's Current Practice

Mayflower Church maintains a current organizational chart depicting the four boards established by the Mayflower Constitution and Bylaws (Elders, Deacons, Trustees, Finance), the Senior Pastor and church staff, the Sunday morning teams, and the ministry teams that operate beneath each board. The chart names the leader of each team and group, so that any staff member, officer, or member of the congregation can identify who carries responsibility for a given area.

The chart is placed in a location that is accessible to all leaders. The current revision is reproduced below. The authoritative file is held in the church administrative file and is republished whenever boards, staff, or team leadership change.

Mayflower Church Organization Chart

Figure 1 — Mayflower Church Organization Chart, current revision (April 2026).

Reading the Chart

The chart is organized around the Board of Elders at the top, with five working columns flowing beneath it. Each column represents a domain of the church's life. The chart should be read alongside the Mayflower Constitution and Bylaws (which establishes the four boards) and the Mayflower Church Position Descriptions (which define each role).

Teaching Ministry

Bible Fellowship Groups (Plympton, Caldwells', Women's, Online), the Bible Studies and Discipleship cohort (Men of the Word, Brothers Bibles & Bacon, Ladies' Community Bible Study, EQUIP Discipleship), Discipletown and the Nursery, and the Biblical Counseling Ministry. Spiritual oversight rests with the Elders.

Boards

Board of Deacons (care of the congregation, communion setup, benevolence, assisting the elders); Trustees (facilities and property); Board of Finance (annual budget, monthly reporting, payroll, offering management, investments). Each board's authority is defined in the Mayflower Constitution and Bylaws.

Teams

Missions (local, regional, world); Prayer Team (coordinating prayer within the church); Hospitality (church-wide events, community events); Kitchen (coffee after service, mainstays stock, food safety). These are the standing ministry teams that operate week to week.

Sunday AM Teams

Worship Team (Sunday morning worship planning and execution of music); A/V Team; First Impressions (welcomers, greeters and ushers, security); Scripture Reading Team (public reading of Scripture). These are the teams that make Sunday morning happen.

Staff

Senior Pastor; Church Secretary; Biblical Counselors. Staff roles, position descriptions, and reporting are governed by the Mayflower Church Position Descriptions and the Employee Handbook.

Access and Maintenance

Authoritative copy. The current organizational chart file is held in the church administrative file. The version reproduced here is the most recent revision as of the document control date below.
Distribution. The chart is distributed to every staff member, officer, board member, and team leader on appointment, and republished to all leaders whenever a revision is issued.
Posted location. A printed copy of the current chart is posted in the church office; a digital copy is held in BookStack alongside this overview.
Trigger for revision. The chart is revised whenever a board membership changes, a staff member is hired or departs, a team leader is appointed or steps down, or a board reorganizes its team structure.
Annual review. The Senior Pastor reviews the chart in advance of the August Leadership Summit each year and brings the current revision to the Summit.

How This Chapter Fits

It is the umbrella of System 06. The detailed meeting architecture lives in System 06 — Meeting System (April 2026); the volunteer and team-leader chapter lives in System 06 — Volunteers. Together, this overview and those chapters describe how Mayflower is organized in space and how it operates in time.
It is read with the bylaws. The four boards depicted on the chart are established by the Mayflower Constitution and Bylaws; their authority and limits are defined there.
It is read with the position descriptions. Roles named on the chart correspond to the Mayflower Church Position Descriptions, which define the responsibilities, qualifications, and reporting line of each role.
It connects to other systems. Decision authority for each box on the chart is governed by System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; the calendar that holds each body's meetings is built through System 04 — Master Calendar Integration; goals are refreshed at the gathering described in System 11 — Annual Goals.

Document Control

Version: 1.0 — May 2026 (initial draft, presented to Servants Council).

Drafted / Updated: Drafted April 20, 2026 (BookStack revision #4); reformatted for hard copy May 2026.

Owner: Senior Pastor, in coordination with the Servants Council.

Approval: Servants Council; revisions ratified at the next quarterly meeting.

Review cadence: Annually, prior to the August Leadership Summit; and whenever boards, staff, or team leadership changes.

Next scheduled review: August 2026 Leadership Summit — and immediately upon any change to boards, staff, or team leadership.

Sources

Mayflower Constitution and Bylaws — establishes the four boards.
Mayflower Church Position Descriptions — defines each role on the chart.
Streamline: How to Create Healthy Church Systems — Michael Lukaszewski (System 06).
Meeting System (System 06, April 2026) — companion chapter on cadence and architecture.

Team-to-Board Oversight Map — Draft April 2026

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Team-to-Board Oversight Map

Streamline System 06 — Which Board Oversees Which Ministry Team

Draft April 2026

Governing Principle

Every team has a home.

When a ministry team leader has a question, a need, a candidate to recruit, or a problem to solve, they should know — without asking — which board they go to first. This document is that answer. It replaces the “Ministry Coach” role that was proposed but not approved, by naming the standing board that already has bylaw oversight of each team's work.

Purpose

This chapter maps each Mayflower ministry team to the board (Elders, Deacons, or Trustees) that oversees its work. It is the operational implementation of the principle that ministry teams work with the board that oversees their team or group, and it pairs with the Volunteers chapter and the Meeting System chapter inside System 06.

It draws first from the Mayflower Constitution and Bylaws, which name explicit areas of oversight for each board. Where the bylaws are explicit, the bylaws govern. Where the bylaws are silent, this document offers a recommendation grounded in the nature of the team's work and Mayflower's existing practice; those recommendations are flagged for elder approval.

What the Bylaws Say

The October 2024 bylaws (Article II, Section B) assign explicit areas of ministry oversight to each board. The relevant text is summarized here so this document can stand on its own.

Board of Elders (Article II, Section B, 1.c)

The Elders oversee the spiritual life of the church. The bylaws name as their explicit responsibility:

The teaching, outreach, and worship ministries of the church.
Adult and youth Christian Education, worship and music, Bible Fellowship Groups, missions, outreach, assimilation, baptism, and discipleship.
The Audio/Visual Team — by direct, named bylaw reference (Article II, Section B, 1.c.4).
Approval of the establishment and participants in all church-related Ministry Teams (Article II, Section B, 1.c.5).

The bylaws also state, broadly, that “all other Boards, Teams, and Officers will be under the oversight of, and be accountable to, the Board of Elders” (Article II, Section B, 1.a). The map below is therefore an operational distribution of that oversight, not a contradiction of it.

Board of Deacons (Article II, Section B, 2.c)

The Deacons oversee the service-related ministries of the church. The bylaws name as their explicit responsibility:

The Child Safety Policy (Policy Page viii of the bylaws) names the Board of Deacons as the oversight board for child protection across all Mayflower children's ministry — even when the discipling content of a children's program (e.g., DiscipleTown) sits with the Elders. This dual relationship is preserved below.

Board of Trustees (Article II, Section B, 3.c)

The Trustees are responsible for physical assets and operational facilities:

Repairs and maintenance of buildings, grounds, and physical assets.
Contracted services such as custodian, snow removal, and other contractors.
Insurance and utilities of the church buildings.

The bylaws do not name a specific ministry team under trustee oversight. The Trustees' “teams” are de facto the contracted services and the building. The Building Use Policy (Policy Page vi) is shared between the Board of Elders and the Board of Trustees.

Senior Pastor — Lead Teaching Elder, Ex-Officio Across All Boards

Per Article II, Section A, 1.b.2, the Senior Pastor “is a voting Member of the Board of Elders and an ex-officio Member and advisor to all other Boards and Teams, at his discretion.” In practice, the Pastor is present in any board's work where pastoral wisdom is needed and is the day-to-day point person for staff-side ministry coordination. The Purchasing and Reimbursement Policy (Policy Page v) names the Pastor as the approval authority for Web Technology, Strategic Plan, Office Supplies, and Computer/Website/Technical expenses.

The Mayflower Team-to-Board Map

The table below shows, for each of Mayflower's seventeen ministry teams, which board carries its primary oversight. The rationale for each placement follows the table.

#	Ministry Team	Primary Oversight Board	Bylaw / Policy Basis
16	Director of Biblical Counseling	Elders	Pastoral / discipleship; falls under elder spiritual oversight. Counseling Resources budget: Lead Counselor (Purchasing Policy).
17	Bible Fellowship Group Leader	Elders	Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.2 — BFGs explicitly under elder oversight.
18	Worship Team Leader	Elders	Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.1–2 — worship and music explicitly under elder oversight. Music budget: Elder Chair.
19	Audio-Visual Team Leader	Elders	Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.4 — direct named reference: “Oversee the Audio/Visual Team.”
20	Missions Team Leader	Elders	Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.2 — missions explicitly under elder oversight. Outreach Fund: Elder Chair.
21	Prayer Team Leader	Elders	Recommendation. Bylaws are silent; corporate prayer is bound up with Word and worship ministries, both elder-overseen.
22	Hospitality Team Leader	Deacons	Bylaws Art. II §B 2.c.1 — Hospitality explicitly under deacon oversight. Hospitality and Coffee Hour budgets: Deacon Chair.
23	First Impressions Ministry Leader	Elders	Recommendation. Bylaws are silent on the specific name; First Impressions is functionally Sunday hospitality (welcome, greeting, ushering), which the bylaws place under deacons.
24	DiscipleTown Leader	Elders (with Deacon child-safety oversight)	Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.2 — youth Christian Education and discipleship under elders. Child Safety Policy: Deacons. DiscipleTown Curriculum budget: Elder Chair.
25	Nursery Team Leader	Deacons	Bylaws Art. II §B 2.c.1 — Children's Nursery explicitly under deacon oversight. Nursery Fund: Deacon Chair. Child Safety Policy: Deacons.
26	Scripture Reading Team Leader	Elders	Recommendation. Word ministry within the Lord's Day Gathering — falls under the elders' explicit teaching and worship oversight.
27	EQUIP Discipleship Leader	Elders	Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.2 — discipleship explicitly under elders. Discipleship & Evangelism supplies budget: Elder Chair.
28	Evangelism Team Leader	Elders	Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.2 — outreach explicitly under elders. Discipleship & Evangelism supplies: Elder Chair.
29	Baptism Team Leader	Elders	Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.2 — baptism explicitly under elders.
30	Shoebox Ministry Leader	Elders	Recommendation. Outreach/missions in form, even though hands-on logistics make it feel service-shaped. Outreach Fund: Elder Chair. Could equally be argued for deacons; recommend elders to preserve the bylaws' clear missions-under-elders pattern.
31	Women's Ministry Leadership Team Leader	Elders	Recommendation. Discipleship-shaped, fits explicitly under elder discipleship oversight (Art. II §B 1.c.2).

Summary by Board

The map produces this distribution of ministry teams across the three oversight boards:

Elders (13 teams)

Biblical Counseling, Bible Fellowship Groups, Worship, Audio-Visual, Missions, Prayer, DiscipleTown, Scripture Reading, EQUIP, Evangelism, Baptism, Shoebox, and Women's Ministry.

The elder portfolio is large because the bylaws give the elders responsibility for almost all teaching, worship, discipleship, and outreach work. This is intentional and reflects the biblical pattern of elder oversight of the spiritual life of the church (Acts 6, 1 Tim 3, Titus 1). In practice, the Senior Pastor carries much of the day-to-day interface with these team leaders on the elders' behalf.

Deacons (4 teams)

Hospitality, First Impressions, Nursery, and Senior Luncheon.

The deacon portfolio is focused but real — the service-shaped ministries that hold the Sunday gathering together and care for the practical needs of members. The Diaconate Fund and the Adams Benevolent Fund give the deacons direct resource authority for benevolence casework that does not flow through any team.

Trustees (no ministry teams; facilities + operations)

The Trustees do not directly oversee ministry team leaders. Their portfolio is the church buildings, grounds, contracted services, insurance, and utilities. They share with the Elders the oversight of the Building Use Policy. Ministry team leaders coordinate with the Trustees for facility-related needs (reserving rooms, requesting maintenance, working with vendors), but their primary oversight relationship lives with one of the other two boards.

Cross-Cutting and Edge Cases

Children's ministry has a dual relationship.

The DiscipleTown program (children's discipleship) is overseen by the Elders for content, curriculum, and theological direction. The Nursery is overseen by the Deacons for service and care. Both fall under the deacons for child safety (per the Child Safety Policy, Policy Page viii of the bylaws). This dual relationship is real and worth naming explicitly: the children's leaders work primarily with Elders for what they teach and primarily with Deacons for how they keep children safe. When in doubt, the elders and deacons should coordinate at the Elder-Deacon Roundtable.

Audio-Visual has a split funding pattern.

The bylaws name the Elders as the AV team's oversight board (Art. II §B 1.c.4). The Purchasing Policy lists the AV-related funds under both the Elder Chair (general A/V) and the Deacon Chair (the Audio/Visual fund — likely supplies and consumables). This is how the policy reads as written; the team itself is overseen by the elders.

Missions / outreach / mercy have natural overlap.

Missions, Evangelism, and Shoebox all sit with the Elders per the bylaws' explicit “missions and outreach” language. In Mayflower's recent doctrinal framing (see Five Priority Ministries We Guard, System 01), Missions and Outreach is named as “the church's outward calling that overflows from the five priorities” — not a separate priority. That theological framing supports the elder-oversight pattern: outreach is the overflow of Word, worship, prayer, discipleship, and shepherding, which the elders already lead.

Officers are not ministry teams.

The thirteen officer roles (Elder, Deacon, Trustee, Servants Council Member, Board of Finance Member, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Financial Secretary, Assistant Financial Secretary, Auditor, Moderator, Clerk, Nominating Team Member) are governed by their own bylaw provisions and are not included in the team-to-board map. Officer accountability runs through the bylaws and through the Servants Council.

What This Means in Practice

For the team leader.

When you have a question, a recruitment need, a problem, or a new idea, your first call is the chair of the board that oversees your team. They are your supervising leader for the purposes of the Leadership Handoff Guidelines, the Annual Goals process, and the Volunteer chapter recruitment guidance. The Senior Pastor is always available as well, but for non-pastoral matters the relevant board chair is the right starting point.

For the board chair.

You hold the development relationship with each team leader under your board. You set annual goals with them (System 11), conduct or coordinate their performance evaluation, advocate for their resource needs at the Servants Council and the Board of Finance, and keep an eye on their succession (Leadership Handoff Guidelines). When a question exceeds your board's authority, you escalate per the Decision-Making Framework (System 09).

For the Senior Pastor.

The Pastor remains ex-officio across all boards and teams. Pastoral matters, doctrinal questions, and matters that touch the spiritual life of the church flow to the Senior Pastor and the Elders. The Pastor coordinates with the relevant board chair when operational and pastoral concerns intersect.

For the elders.

The elders retain their bylaw responsibility for the church's overall spiritual oversight (Art. II §B 1.a). The team-to-board map distributes operational supervision across the three boards, but does not displace elder spiritual oversight. When the elders need to speak into any ministry — including those primarily overseen by deacons — they do so.

Open Items

Recommendation placements (Prayer, First Impressions, Scripture Reading, Shoebox, Senior Luncheon, Women's Ministry) need elder approval to become final. The bylaws do not name them, so this map is a proposal for the elders to ratify.
Children's ministry dual relationship needs a brief written protocol — when does a question go to elders, when to deacons? Recommend a one-page note inside this chapter once the elders and deacons agree on the boundary.
The Servants Council should ratify this map as part of its standing approval of operations documentation, per its bylaw responsibility (Art. II §B 4.c.7) to receive and approve Ministry Team charters.
The Audio/Visual fund being administered by the Deacon Chair while the AV Team itself is elder-overseen is a known oddity. Either rename the fund or align the oversight; not urgent.

Sources

Mayflower Constitution and Bylaws — Article II, Sections A and B; Policies (Wedding, Diaconate Fund Financial Aid, Purchasing and Reimbursement, Building Use, Child Safety, Sunday Sales).
Five Priority Ministries We Guard (BookStack, System 01) — for the framing of missions and outreach as the overflow of the five priorities.
Mayflower Volunteer Chapter — Draft April 2026 (BookStack, System 06, Volunteers chapter) — for the principle that ministry teams work with the board that oversees them.
Mayflower Leadership Handoff Guidelines — April 2026 (BookStack, System 12) — for how oversight relationships function during leader transitions.
Mayflower Annual Goals — Draft April 2026 (BookStack, System 11) — for the annual goal-setting conversation between the team leader and the relevant board.
Mayflower Decision-Making Framework — April 2026 (BookStack, System 09) — for which decisions go where when a matter exceeds the team or board's authority.

Team Charters

Draft team charters and related oversight proposals, prepared for consideration at the Servants Council meeting on July 11, 2026.

Team Charters

Team Charter Standard

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Team Charter Standard

Streamline System 06 — Org Chart, Oversight, and Team Charters

DRAFT for consideration by the Servants Council at its meeting on July 11, 2026.

Governing Principle

A team that knows its charge serves with confidence.

A charter is not a job description and not a wish list. It is the standing answer to one question: what has the overseeing board commissioned this team to carry, and where are the edges of that work? When a team knows the size and shape of its charge, it can say a glad yes to what is theirs and a clear no to what is not.

Purpose

This page sets the canonical form for every Mayflower ministry team charter. It exists so that a leader appointed to a team, a board that oversees one, and a member who serves on one can all read the same one page and agree on what the team is for, how big the work is, and who is responsible for it. The charter is the team-level mandate. It is approved by the overseeing board chair and ratified by the Servants Council, which holds the standing responsibility to receive and approve Ministry Team charters (Bylaws Art. II §B 4.c.7).

A charter is standing and evergreen. It does not expire on a calendar year. It is reviewed each August at the Leadership Summit and re-ratified by the Servants Council only when the work materially changes.

What a charter is, and what it is not

The charter sits in a family of four documents. Each answers a different question at a different altitude. The charter must not duplicate the other three.

Document	Altitude	Answers	Where it lives
Team Charter	The team	Why this team exists, what it is commissioned to carry, scope in and out, scale, oversight, resources, health, review	System 06
Position Description	The leader	The leader's role, qualifications, term, time commitment, selection	System 07
Annual Goals	The year	This year's 3 to 5 measurable targets inside the mandate	System 11
Volunteer Chapter	The members	How members are recruited, equipped, and retained	System 06

The charter is the stable mandate. The annual goals are the yearly layer set inside it at the August Summit. If a line you are about to write names this year's number, a target date, or a single event, it belongs in the annual goals, not the charter. If it names the leader's qualifications or hours, it belongs in the position description. Keep the charter at the team altitude.

The standard form

Every Mayflower team charter is one page and uses these eleven fields in this order. If a field does not earn its place for a team this size, cut it rather than pad it. Plain prose and short bullets. No filler.

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[Team Name] Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

DRAFT for consideration by the Servants Council at its meeting on July 11, 2026. Not yet ratified. Upon ratification this becomes a standing charter, reviewed at each August Leadership Summit and re-ratified on material change.

Governing Principle

[One memorable line that names this team's heart.]

[One or two sentences unpacking it.]

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: [Elders / Deacons]. Day-to-day point person: [Senior Pastor, or named staff]. Every team has a home; this team works first with the board above.

2. Purpose

[Two or three plain sentences. Why this team exists and which of the church's callings it serves.]

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves and overflows from [one or more of the Five Priority Ministries We Guard, System 01].

4. The Commission

[The load-bearing field. One paragraph stating what the overseeing board has commissioned this team to carry and the scale of that work. Name the size and shape plainly: how often, how many, how wide. This is the scope-and-scale sentence the rest of the charter defends.]

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

[Bullets naming what this team owns.]

Out of scope:

[Bullets naming what this team does not carry, especially where a sibling team or board holds it instead. This is where overlaps and gaps get resolved on paper.]

6. Scale

Shape: [core team size; whether it expands for events; commitment categories drawn from the Volunteer Chapter]. The team recruits and mobilizes others rather than absorbing every task itself.

7. Key responsibilities

[Plain bullets, team-level, not this year's tasks.]

8. Coordination

[Which teams and boards this team hands off to or receives from, and what crosses the line each way.]

9. Resources

Budget line: [name] administered by [role]. Facilities needs are coordinated with the Trustees. Scheduling runs through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

A few faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive and serving well. Not vanity metrics. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the overseeing board each August.

[Indicators.]

11. Review and approval

Standing charter, reviewed annually at the August Leadership Summit. Re-ratified by the Servants Council on material change. Escalation beyond the team's or board's authority follows the Decision-Making Framework (System 09). Leadership succession follows the Leadership Handoff Guidelines (System 12).

Commissioned by: [Overseeing Board] Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Drafting guide

Write the Commission first; everything else defends it. State plainly what the board is asking the team to carry and how big that work is, then let In scope and Out of scope draw the edges so the team neither overlaps a sibling nor leaves a gap. Keep every line at the team altitude: if it names this year's number it belongs in the System 11 annual goals, if it names the leader it belongs in the System 07 position description, if it names how members are recruited it belongs in the Volunteer Chapter. Use no DISC test and no spiritual-gifts inventory; giftedness, passion, and fit are the right language. One page, plain American English, theology that breathes through the work rather than decorating it. When a team's charge cannot fit on one scannable page, the charge is unclear, not too large.

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters); Art. II §B 1.c.2 (board oversight of ministry).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard.
Streamline System 06 — Org Chart, Team-to-Board Oversight Map, Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity (Position Descriptions).
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework.
Streamline System 11 — Annual Goals and Evaluation.
Streamline System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Prior team charter drafts (Missions, Hospitality, AV, Nursery, Sanctuary), Basecamp archive, the form upgraded here.

Team Charters

Ministry Oversight Proposals — Servants Council, July 11, 2026

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Ministry Oversight Proposals

For consideration by the Servants Council — Meeting of July 11, 2026

DRAFT

From the Senior Pastor to the Servants Council

Purpose

This packet brings three ministry oversight matters to the Council for decision. Each one clarifies and simplifies which board oversees a ministry, and each one is brought alongside the new Ministry Team charters now being adopted. The aim is plain: a team leader should know, without asking, which board they go to first, and our governing documents should say the same thing in every place a reader looks. Today three ministries do not yet read consistently across the bylaws, the Team-to-Board Oversight Map, and the System 07 position descriptions. These proposals reconcile them.

The Council holds the standing responsibility to receive and approve Ministry Team charters (Bylaws Art. II §B 4.c.7). Two of these proposals would also amend the Team-to-Board Oversight Map and a System 07 position description if adopted, and the third would update the Oversight Map and note a deacon-named responsibility in the bylaws. None of these proposals changes the bylaws by themselves; where a bylaw question is touched, it is named so the Council can decide what rises to the congregation.

The three proposals are separable. The Council can adopt, defer, or decline each one on its own. Each carries a recommended motion the Council may adopt as written.

A word on what these proposals are not. None of them is driven by program size, headcount, or growth. Each is a question of faithful order: placing each ministry with the board the bylaws and the nature of the work point to, so the church is governed clearly and children are kept demonstrably safe. Where simplification could weaken child protection, that risk is named head-on and guarded against, not assumed away.

The three proposals:

1. Shoebox Ministry oversight: move from the Deacons to the Elders.

2. DiscipleTown program oversight: place under the Elders, with the Child Safety Policy remaining under the Servants Council and the Deacons continuing to ensure its proper application.

3. Sanctuary Preparation: fold into the First Impressions Team under Elder oversight, retiring the standalone Sanctuary Team.

Proposal 1 — Shoebox Ministry oversight: Deacons to Elders

Background / Current state

Mayflower's participation in Operation Christmas Child is led by the Shoebox Ministry. Today our documents disagree on its home. The System 07 position description ("30 — Shoebox Ministry Leader") names the Board of Deacons as the accountable board. The Team-to-Board Oversight Map (Draft April 2026) recommends the Elders, noting that the case for deacons could equally be argued because the hands-on logistics make the work feel service-shaped. The Shoebox charter has been drafted under the Elders and flags this conflict openly, holding the signature block for the Council's decision. The two documents need to be reconciled, and the Council should settle the home.

Proposed change

Place the Shoebox Ministry under the Board of Elders.

Rationale

Shoebox is outreach and missions in form, not service ministry in the diaconal sense. The bylaws place the church's missions and outreach ministries under the Elders (Art. II §B 1.c.2). Missions, Evangelism, and Shoebox all share that outward calling, and the other two already sit with the Elders. The Outreach Fund, which carries Shoebox's costs, is administered by the Elder Chair. Placing Shoebox under the Elders keeps the bylaws' clear missions-under-elders pattern intact and puts the ministry with the same board and the same fund as the rest of the church's outward work. The day-to-day point person remains the Senior Pastor, as with the other outreach ministries.

The work being hands-on at collection time does not make it diaconal. Much elder-overseen ministry is hands-on. What sets the board home is the nature of the calling the ministry serves, and Shoebox serves the outward calling the bylaws assign to the Elders.

Impact

Oversight home: Board of Elders.
Budget administrator: Outreach Fund, administered by the Elder Chair (Purchasing Policy). No change to the fund.
Charter signature block: Elder Chair commissions; Servants Council ratifies. Two signatures.
Documents to update if adopted: System 07 position description "30 — Shoebox Ministry Leader" changes Accountable To and Selection Process from Board of Deacons to Board of Elders; the Team-to-Board Oversight Map moves Shoebox from a flagged recommendation to a ratified Elder placement; the Shoebox charter signature block is completed under the Elders.
Child safety: not applicable. Shoebox is a congregation-wide seasonal effort, not a children's ministry.

Recommended motion

That the Servants Council place the Shoebox Ministry under the oversight of the Board of Elders, direct that the System 07 position description and the Team-to-Board Oversight Map be conformed accordingly, and ratify the Shoebox Ministry Charter under Elder oversight.

Proposal 2 — DiscipleTown program oversight to the Elders, with the Child Safety Policy under the Servants Council and applied by the Deacons

Background / Current state

DiscipleTown is the church's children's discipleship ministry. Today its oversight has read as dual: the Team-to-Board Oversight Map assigns DiscipleTown to the Elders for content, curriculum, and theological direction, and has named the Deacons as holding child-safety oversight. That framing conflated three distinct roles that in fact belong to three different bodies at Mayflower. Naming them plainly resolves the question without amending any policy.

There are three roles, and they are compatible:

Program oversight, the relevant board for the ministry. For DiscipleTown the bylaws point to the Elders (youth and children's Christian Education and discipleship, Art. II §B 1.c.2).
Policy oversight, owning the church's policies including the Child Safety Policy. This is a Servants Council role, not a Deacon role. The Council owns and oversees the policy church-wide.
Application and management, ensuring the Child Safety Policy is managed and applied properly across all children's ministry. This is the Deacons' role.

Read this way, the bylaw line naming the Deacons in connection with child protection (Bylaws Policy Page viii) refers to the operational application role, not to ownership of the policy document. The DiscipleTown charter was drafted in two versions while this was being clarified, with a dual-oversight version carrying two commissioning signatures and an Elder-Deacon Roundtable. With the three roles named correctly, the dual program-oversight arrangement is unnecessary.

Proposed change

Place DiscipleTown under the Board of Elders for program oversight, with the Child Safety Policy remaining owned and overseen by the Servants Council and the Deacons continuing to ensure its proper management and application across all children's ministry, DiscipleTown included.

Rationale

The bylaws place youth and children's Christian Education and discipleship under the Elders (Art. II §B 1.c.2). The DiscipleTown Curriculum budget is already administered by the Elder Chair. The position description ("24 — DiscipleTown Leader") already names the Board of Elders as the accountable board. A single elder home for program oversight matches the bylaws, matches the budget, matches the position description, and removes the routing seam that the earlier dual framing created.

This does not weaken child protection, and it requires no change to the Child Safety Policy. The policy stays exactly where it belongs, under the Servants Council, which owns and oversees the church's policies. The Deacons keep their role of ensuring the policy is managed and applied properly across all children's ministry. Only program oversight moves to the Elders. Because these are three separate roles carried by three bodies, moving one of them changes none of the others. The earlier concern that simplification might cost the children their protection rested on a misreading that treated program oversight and policy oversight as the same thing; correct attribution resolves it.

The standing requirement holds without exception: no worker serves DiscipleTown without a current CORI check and completed child-safety training, and the safety protocols bind every gathering.

Charter readiness

Two charter versions are prepared and ready:

Version A — Elders for program oversight. Two-signature block (Elder Chair commissions; Servants Council ratifies). This is the recommended version under the three-role division above.
Version B — dual program oversight. Three-signature block (Elder Chair and Deacon Chair commission; Servants Council ratifies). Retained only as a fallback if the Council specifically wishes the Deacons to share DiscipleTown's program oversight, which the corrected role division makes unnecessary.

Impact

Program oversight home: Board of Elders.
Child Safety Policy: owned and overseen by the Servants Council, unchanged. The Deacons continue to ensure its proper management and application across all children's ministry, DiscipleTown included. No amendment to the policy is required.
Budget administrator: DiscipleTown Curriculum, administered by the Elder Chair (Purchasing Policy). No change.
Charter signature block: two signatures under Version A (recommended).
Documents to update if adopted: the Team-to-Board Oversight Map moves DiscipleTown from "Elders (with Deacon child-safety oversight)" to "Elders for program oversight," with a note that the Child Safety Policy is under the Servants Council and applied by the Deacons; the System 07 position description "24 — DiscipleTown Leader" is conformed to read the same way (the Accountable To line already reads Board of Elders); Version A of the charter is ratified.
Bylaw wording note for the Council: the Bylaws Policy Page viii line naming the Deacons in connection with child protection should be read consistent with this division of roles, as the application-and-management role rather than ownership of the policy. The Council should flag for the Elders whether a conforming wording note to the bylaws or Policy Page is warranted at a future congregational meeting.

Recommended motion

That the Servants Council place DiscipleTown under the oversight of the Board of Elders for program oversight; affirm that the Child Safety Policy remains owned and overseen by the Servants Council and that the Deacons continue to ensure its proper management and application across all children's ministry, DiscipleTown included; adopt Version A (Elders for program oversight) of the DiscipleTown Charter; direct that the Team-to-Board Oversight Map and the System 07 position description "24 — DiscipleTown Leader" be conformed accordingly; and record that the Bylaws Policy Page viii reference to the Deacons in connection with child protection is to be read consistent with this division of roles, with any conforming wording referred to the Elders for a future congregational meeting.

Proposal 3 — Sanctuary Preparation: fold into the First Impressions Team under Elder oversight

Background / Current state

The Sanctuary Team prepares the sanctuary and foyer for worship each week so the space is attractive, uncluttered, and inviting to those who gather and to those who visit. The bylaws name Sanctuary Preparation under deacon oversight (Art. II §B 2.c.1). The team has been drafted from the prior team-charter draft and the deacon-oversight reference in the bylaws, but there is no System 07 position description for a standalone Sanctuary Team Leader. The Sanctuary charter itself flags this and asks for a decision: either author a Sanctuary Team Leader position description, or fold the team's work into another Sunday support team.

The First Impressions Team welcomes guests at the Lord's Day gathering and walks them into the life of the church, carrying both the first welcome and the patient work of assimilation. It is overseen by the Elders.

Contextual note on First Impressions oversight. First Impressions oversight has been confirmed under the Elders because of its essential role in discipleship and assimilation, which is clearly elder oversight. This confirmation needs no separate motion. It is noted here only because First Impressions is the home into which Sanctuary Preparation would move.

Proposed change

Fold the Sanctuary Preparation responsibilities into the First Impressions Team under Elder oversight, and retire the standalone Sanctuary Team.

Rationale

Preparing a clean, attractive, welcoming sanctuary and foyer is part of preparing the Lord's Day environment for guests. That fits the First Impressions assimilation purpose, which is to help a guest feel expected rather than merely noticed, from the door inward. The two functions serve the same Sunday and the same guest. Consolidating them puts the readied room and the warm welcome under one team and one leader, rather than two teams coordinating across a seam. It also resolves a real gap: Sanctuary Preparation lacks its own leader position description, while First Impressions has one ("23 — First Impressions Ministry Leader," Board of Elders). One Sunday-readiness team is simpler than two, and it removes the need to author a standalone position description for a small function.

Impact

Oversight home: Board of Elders, through the First Impressions Team.
Budget administrator: supplies coordinated with the relevant board as First Impressions already coordinates its needs (Purchasing Policy). No new named budget line is created. Facilities concerns continue to escalate to the Trustees.
The standalone Sanctuary Team Charter retires. Its scope moves into the First Impressions Charter.
The exact text to add to the First Impressions Charter, In scope section:
Prepare the sanctuary and foyer weekly so the space is attractive, uncluttered, and inviting to those who gather and to those who visit.
Periodically assess how the sanctuary, foyer, and restrooms appear to a first-time guest, and put right what the team can.
Escalate facilities concerns beyond the team's reach to the Trustees rather than leaving them or carrying them alone.
Coordination note to add: First Impressions readies the room and carries the welcome into it; Hospitality readies the fellowship table; the Trustees carry building repairs, equipment, cleaning contracts, and facility systems, to whom facilities concerns are escalated.
Bylaws and Oversight Map: because the bylaws name Sanctuary Preparation under the Deacons (Art. II §B 2.c.1), moving it under Elder oversight through First Impressions needs the Council's approval and a corresponding note to the bylaws and the Team-to-Board Oversight Map. The Council should record that Sanctuary Preparation, while named under the Deacons in the bylaws, is carried operationally within the elder-overseen First Impressions Team, and flag for the Elders whether a conforming bylaw note or amendment should follow at a future congregational meeting.
Child safety: not applicable. Sanctuary Preparation does not involve children's ministry.

Recommended motion

That the Servants Council fold Sanctuary Preparation into the First Impressions Team under the oversight of the Board of Elders, retire the standalone Sanctuary Team Charter, direct that its scope be added to the First Impressions Charter as set out above, and record a note to the bylaws and the Team-to-Board Oversight Map that Sanctuary Preparation, though named under the Deacons in the bylaws, is carried within the elder-overseen First Impressions Team, with any conforming bylaw amendment referred to the Elders for a future congregational meeting.

1. Shoebox Ministry: place under the Board of Elders; conform the position description and Oversight Map; ratify the charter under Elder oversight.

2. DiscipleTown: place under the Board of Elders for program oversight; affirm the Child Safety Policy stays under the Servants Council and the Deacons continue to ensure its proper application across all children's ministry; adopt Version A of the charter; conform the Oversight Map and position description; read the Bylaws Policy Page viii deacon reference consistent with this division of roles.

3. Sanctuary Preparation: fold into the First Impressions Team under the Board of Elders; retire the standalone Sanctuary Team; add its scope to the First Impressions Charter; record a bylaws and Oversight Map note and refer any conforming amendment to the Elders.

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws — Art. II §B 1.c.2 (teaching, worship, missions, outreach, assimilation, baptism, discipleship, and Christian Education under the Elders); Art. II §B 2.c.1 (service ministries, including Sanctuary Preparation, Children's Nursery, and Hospitality, under the Deacons); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Child Safety Policy (Bylaws Policy Page viii) — the church's standing child-protection policy, owned and overseen by the Servants Council; the Deacons ensure its proper management and application across all Mayflower children's ministry; CORI and child-safety training required of workers. The bylaw line naming the Deacons in connection with child protection refers to this application-and-management role.
Team-to-Board Oversight Map (Draft April 2026, System 06) — Shoebox recommended to Elders; DiscipleTown to Elders with Deacon child-safety oversight; First Impressions to Elders.
System 07 Position Descriptions — "24 — DiscipleTown Leader" (Board of Elders); "23 — First Impressions Ministry Leader" (Board of Elders); "30 — Shoebox Ministry Leader" (Board of Deacons).
Team Charters (System 06) — Shoebox Ministry Charter; DiscipleTown Charter (Versions A and B prepared); Sanctuary Team Charter (proposed for retirement); First Impressions Team Charter (proposed to absorb Sanctuary Preparation).

Team Charters

Evangelism Team Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Evangelism Team Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

This team carries the gospel itself, and it trains the whole body to carry it too.

The gospel is not the trade of a specialist squad; it overflows from the whole body. So this team evangelizes with its own hands and equips the congregation to do the same, never the squad that witnesses so the church does not have to. It also cares for those the Lord brings in.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Elders (Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.2, outreach explicitly under the elders). Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Every team has a home; this team works first with the elders.

2. Purpose

Mayflower's outward calling is not one ministry among many. It is the overflow of the five priorities the church guards. This team exists to do two co-equal things: to engage in gospel witness and run evangelistic outreach itself, and to equip, mobilize, and catalyze the whole congregation for personal and corporate gospel witness. It also shepherds new believers and gospel contacts into the life of the church. The team carries the gospel with its own hands and trains the body to do the same. It is never the church's substitute for evangelizing; the calling stays the whole church's.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves the church's outward calling, which overflows from all five of the Five Priority Ministries We Guard (System 01) and is bound most closely to Disciple-Making Pathways and Gospel-Driven Prayer.

4. The Commission

The elders commission this team to keep Mayflower a witnessing congregation, and to be a witnessing team within it. The work has four parts and a steady scale. First, do: engage in gospel witness and run evangelistic outreach as a working team, carrying the gospel into Kingston and the surrounding area with its own hands. Second, equip: provide ongoing training and encouragement so ordinary members are ready to share the gospel in their own circles, offered on a regular rhythm through the year rather than once. Third, mobilize: organize a small number of corporate outreach occasions each year that give the body shared opportunities to bear witness together. Fourth, follow up: coordinate the personal follow-up and early discipleship of new believers and gospel contacts, handing them into the church's assimilation and discipleship pathways. The team both bears witness itself and trains the body to bear witness; it never carries the congregation's calling so the congregation does not have to.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

The team's own direct gospel witness and evangelistic outreach in Kingston and the surrounding area, carried out by the team itself.
Training and equipping the congregation for personal evangelism on a regular rhythm.
Organizing corporate local and regional gospel-outreach occasions through the year.
Coordinating one-on-one follow-up and early discipleship of new believers and gospel contacts.
Tracking gospel conversations and professions of faith as a pastoral record for the elders, not as a performance scoreboard.

Out of scope:

Supporting and sending global and regional missionaries, and standing up the ad hoc teams for larger outreach events. That is the Missions Team's charge (see Coordination).
Owning the long-term discipleship curriculum and membership pathway. That belongs to EQUIP Discipleship and the church's assimilation process; this team hands contacts into it.
The full first-Sunday welcome and guest connection at the gathering. That belongs to First Impressions; this team receives the handoff of new believers and contacts from it.
Becoming the church's substitute for evangelizing. The team witnesses with its own hands, but the calling stays the whole congregation's; the team's witness never replaces the body's.
Setting numerical conversion goals as the measure of faithfulness. Fruit is the Lord's to give.

6. Scale

Shape: a small permanent core team that expands with volunteers for specific outreach occasions, drawing commitment categories from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The core team carries two charges at once: it goes out and bears witness itself, and it recruits, trains, and mobilizes the wider body to do the same. It is a working evangelism team, not only an organizing one, and it does this without becoming the only ones who evangelize. Leadership is two appointed co-leaders, Jacob Bennette and Joanna Bennette (System 07).

7. Key responsibilities

Go out and bear witness as a team, engaging in direct gospel outreach in Kingston and the surrounding area on a steady rhythm.
Provide ongoing equipping and encouragement for personal evangelism across the congregation.
Plan and run the year's corporate outreach occasions, recruiting volunteers as needed rather than staffing every occasion from the core team.
Coordinate personal follow-up and early discipleship of new believers and contacts.
Keep a pastoral record of gospel conversations and professions of faith for the elders.
Communicate regularly with the elders on plans, encouragements, and needs.

8. Coordination

Missions Team (Elders): clean boundary. Missions carries global and regional missionary support and the larger ad hoc outreach event teams. Evangelism carries the local field: its own direct gospel witness here, the body's everyday readiness and equipping, and new-believer follow-up. The dividing line is reach, not who does the work. Local and near-regional outreach is Evangelism's to run and to do; sending and supporting workers beyond it is Missions'. Where a local-and-regional occasion touches both, the two plan it together so neither overlaps the other nor leaves a gap.
First Impressions (Deacons): receives the handoff of new believers and gospel contacts from the gathering into follow-up.
EQUIP Discipleship (Elders) and the assimilation pathway: receives followed-up new believers into ongoing discipleship and the membership process.

9. Resources

Budget line: "Discipleship and Evangelism supplies," administered by the Elder Chair (Purchasing Policy). Facilities needs for outreach occasions are coordinated with the Trustees. Outreach scheduling and volunteer requests run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive, not a conversion scoreboard. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the elders each August.

The team is itself out bearing witness on a steady rhythm, not only planning for others to do so.
The congregation is being equipped on a regular rhythm, not occasionally.
Members report gospel conversations happening in their ordinary circles.
New believers and contacts are followed up promptly and handed into discipleship, with few falling through.
The team is doing the work and multiplying it, bearing witness itself while recruiting and mobilizing the wider body rather than carrying the calling alone.

11. Review and approval

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.2 (outreach under the elders); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard; Missions and Outreach ("the gospel overflows from the five priority ministries").
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map; Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "28 — Evangelism Team Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Purchasing Policy (Discipleship and Evangelism supplies, Elder Chair).
Missions Team Charter (sibling form for parallelism); Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

Worship Team Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Worship Team Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

We do not stage a performance; we lead the gathered church in sung praise of the Word.

Worship is the response of the whole congregation to God's self-revelation in Scripture. This team's music exists to carry that response, never to replace it or eclipse it. The aim is a singing congregation, not an admired band.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Elders (Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.1-2, worship and music explicitly under the elders). Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Every team has a home; this team works first with the elders.

2. Purpose

This team leads the congregation in worshiping God through music on the Lord's Day. It serves the gathered church so that the truths preached from the Word are also sung, confessed, and carried home in the heart. Its concern is not the quality of a show but the faithfulness of the church's praise: that the songs are biblical, the music serves the words, and the people are lifted to sing rather than left to watch.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves the Ministry of the Word and the Lord's Day Gathering (System 01). The music it leads is the Word sung, set inside the weekly gathering of God's people.

4. The Commission

The elders commission this team to lead Word-shaped congregational worship through music every Lord's Day, and at appointed special services through the year. The work has a steady weekly scale. Each week the team selects songs that are biblically sound and fitted to the day's sermon and Scripture, rehearses them to a standard that serves the singing without drawing attention to itself, and leads the gathered congregation in singing them in the service. The standard is congregational: the people sing, the words are heard, and the music carries the truth rather than competing with it. The team builds and trains a roster of vocalists and instrumentalists sufficient to cover the Lord's Day every week without exhausting a few. This is a working, leading team; its measure is a congregation lifted to praise, not an audience pleased by a set.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Selecting worship music that is biblically faithful and aligned to the sermon theme and Scripture for each Lord's Day.
Rehearsing and leading the congregation in sung worship every Lord's Day and at appointed special services.
Recruiting, training, and scheduling vocalists and instrumentalists for weekly worship.
Maintaining musical standards and proper use of song copyrights and licensing.
Coordinating the musical flow of the service with the Senior Pastor and the order of service.

Out of scope:

The technical audio, video, and slide operation of the service. That is the Audio-Visual Team's charge (see Coordination); this team states its musical and technical needs and the AV Team runs the equipment.
Setting and ordering the public reading of Scripture. That belongs to the Scripture Reading Team; this team coordinates placement of readings within the service.
Owning the order of service and pastoral content of the gathering. The Senior Pastor and elders hold that; this team serves it.
Treating worship as a performance to be evaluated by polish or applause. The measure is the congregation's praise, not the team's showcase.

6. Scale

Shape: a permanent core of worship leaders, vocalists, and instrumentalists scheduled across the Lord's Days, expanding for special services such as Advent, Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, and Reformation Sunday. Commitment categories are drawn from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The team recruits and trains musicians rather than leaning on the same few each week. Leadership is one appointed Worship Team Leader (System 07).

7. Key responsibilities

Choose biblically faithful songs fitted to the sermon and Scripture each Lord's Day.
Rehearse and lead congregational singing every Lord's Day and at appointed special services.
Recruit, train, and schedule a sustainable roster of vocalists and instrumentalists.
Keep musical standards high in service of the congregation's singing, not as an end in itself.
Steward song copyrights and licensing properly.
Communicate musical and technical needs to the Senior Pastor and the AV Team in good time.
Communicate plans, encouragements, and needs to the elders.

8. Coordination

Senior Pastor and elders: worship planning flows to the sermon. The Senior Pastor sets the preaching text and theme; this team fits the songs and the musical flow to it and serves the order of service.
Audio-Visual Team (Elders): clean boundary. This team leads the music and states its sound, projection, and recording needs; the AV Team operates the equipment. Worship music selection and leadership belong here; the technical operation belongs to AV.
Scripture Reading Team (Elders): coordinates the placement of public readings within the order of service.

9. Resources

Budget line: the church Music budget, administered by the Elder Chair (Purchasing Policy). [Confirm the exact budget-line label as it appears in the Purchasing Policy.] Facilities needs, such as instrument storage or sanctuary setup, are coordinated with the Trustees. Worship scheduling and volunteer requests run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive, not a measure of polish or stage presence. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the elders each August.

The congregation is singing, not watching; the people's voices carry the room.
Songs are biblically sound and clearly tied to the day's Word.
A widening roster of musicians is being trained and scheduled, so the load does not fall on a few.
Worship planning is consistently aligned to the sermon ahead of the Lord's Day.
The music serves the words rather than competing with them; the team is not chasing a show.

11. Review and approval

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.1-2 (worship and music under the elders); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard (Ministry of the Word; The Lord's Day Gathering).
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map; Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "18 — Worship Team Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Purchasing Policy (Music budget, Elder Chair).
Audio-Visual Team Charter and Scripture Reading Team Charter (sibling forms for parallelism); Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

Audio-Visual Team Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Audio-Visual Team Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

When the technology is invisible, the Word is heard.

This team's success is measured by what the congregation never notices: clear sound, fitting images, and a faithful recording. It serves the gathering so that nothing technical stands between the people and the Word, in the room and over the air.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Elders (Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.4, the audio-visual ministry named directly under the elders). Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Every team has a home; this team works first with the elders.

2. Purpose

This team carries the technical operation of the Lord's Day Gathering so the worship service can be heard and well presented, both in the room and for those joining by recording and radio broadcast. It exists so the preaching of the Word and the congregation's worship reach every listener clearly, with images and sound that serve worship rather than distract from it.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves the Lord's Day Gathering (System 01). It is the technical hands that let the gathered church hear the Word and join in worship, in person and beyond the room.

4. The Commission

The elders commission this team to run the technical operation of every Lord's Day Gathering and appointed special services, so that the service can be heard, seen, and recorded faithfully. The work has a steady weekly scale. Before each service the team conducts sound, camera, and slide checks and confirms all needed equipment is in place and working. During the service it operates and adjusts sound, camera, and slides for the fullest worship participation of the congregation, and records the service for radio broadcast. The team keeps the equipment maintained and the work areas orderly, responds to Planning Center requests in good time, and arranges substitutes when members cannot serve. The standard is faithful and unobtrusive: the technology serves the Word and disappears from notice.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Pre-service sound, camera, and slide checks, and confirming all equipment is in place and working before the service.
In-service operation and adjustment of sound, camera, and slides for full congregational worship participation.
Recording the worship service for radio broadcast, and post-service shutdown and cleanup.
Keeping work areas clean and uncluttered; labeling or discarding broken equipment.
Participating in quarterly assessments of the worship service video and in-person worship quality.
Responding to Planning Center requests in a timely manner and arranging substitutes when unable to serve.
Recruiting, training, and scheduling AV volunteers; maintaining and troubleshooting equipment.

Out of scope:

Worship music selection and leadership. That is the Worship Team's charge (see Coordination); this team operates the equipment to serve the music chosen and led there.
Setting the order of service and the pastoral content of the gathering. The Senior Pastor and elders hold that.
Building repairs and facilities work beyond AV equipment. Those are coordinated to the Trustees.

6. Scale

Shape: a permanent core of trained operators scheduled across the Lord's Days, expanding to cover special services such as Advent, Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, and Reformation Sunday. Commitment categories are drawn from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The team trains and schedules operators rather than relying on one or two. Leadership is one appointed Audio-Visual Team Leader (System 07).

7. Key responsibilities

Conduct pre-service sound, camera, and slide checks and confirm equipment readiness.
Operate and adjust sound, camera, and slides through the service for full congregational participation.
Record the service for radio broadcast and perform post-service shutdown and cleanup.
Keep the AV areas clean and orderly; label or remove broken equipment.
Take part in the quarterly worship-quality assessments.
Respond to Planning Center requests promptly and arrange substitutes when needed.
Recruit, train, and schedule AV volunteers; maintain and troubleshoot equipment.
Escalate equipment needs to the Elders and facilities concerns to the Trustees when they cannot be resolved by team members.

8. Coordination

Worship Team (Elders): clean boundary. The Worship Team selects and leads the music and states its technical needs; this team operates the sound, projection, and recording to serve it. The technical operation belongs here; the music belongs to Worship.
Senior Pastor and elders: receives the order of service and pastoral content the gathering requires; escalates equipment needs to the elders.
Trustees: facilities concerns that AV members cannot resolve are escalated to the Trustees.

9. Resources

Budget line: general audio-visual expenses are administered by the Elder Chair (Purchasing Policy), consistent with this team's elder oversight. Note a known oddity to keep on the record: the church's "Audio/Visual fund" is administered by the Deacon Chair, while the team itself is overseen by the Elders. The team is elder-overseen; the named fund sits under the Deacon Chair. [Confirm with Anton whether the fund administration should be realigned to the Elder Chair to match oversight, or left as is and simply documented.] Facilities needs are coordinated with the Trustees. Scheduling and volunteer requests run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive, not a measure of gear or production gloss. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the elders each August.

The Word and the worship are heard clearly, in the room and on the broadcast, week after week.
The technology serves quietly; the congregation is not pulled out of worship by technical trouble.
The recording for radio broadcast goes out reliably each week.
A trained roster covers the Lord's Day without leaning on one or two operators.
Planning Center requests are answered promptly and substitutes are arranged when needed.
Equipment is maintained and orderly, and needs are escalated to the right board in good time.

11. Review and approval

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.4 (audio-visual ministry under the elders); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard (The Lord's Day Gathering).
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map; Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "19 — Audio-Visual Team Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Purchasing Policy (general A/V under Elder Chair; "Audio/Visual fund" administered by the Deacon Chair).
Prior AV Team Charter draft (substance inherited); Worship Team Charter (sibling form for parallelism); Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

Scripture Reading Team Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Scripture Reading Team Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

Give attention to the public reading of Scripture.

The reading of God's Word in the gathering is itself a means of grace, not a transition between other parts of the service. This team's care is that the Word is read clearly, reverently, and well, so the congregation hears God speak.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Elders (Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c, the ministry of the Word within the Lord's Day Gathering under the elders). Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Every team has a home; this team works first with the elders.

2. Purpose

This team prepares and delivers the public reading of Scripture in the Lord's Day Gathering. It exists so that the Word is read aloud to the gathered church with clarity and reverence, taking its proper place as an act of worship and a means of grace, not a filler between songs.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves the Ministry of the Word (System 01). The public reading of Scripture is the Word itself, read to the people in the gathering.

4. The Commission

The elders commission this team to prepare and deliver the public reading of Scripture every Lord's Day and at appointed special services. The work has a steady weekly scale and a small team to carry it. Each week the team confirms the passages to be read, in coordination with the Senior Pastor and the order of service, recruits and prepares readers, and ensures the Word is read clearly and reverently in the service. Where the service includes responsive readings or congregational recitations of Scripture, the team coordinates those as well. The measure is faithful, clear reading that lets the congregation hear God speak through his Word.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Confirming the Scripture passages for each Lord's Day in coordination with the Senior Pastor and order of service.
Recruiting, preparing, and scheduling readers so each is ready to read clearly and reverently.
Coordinating responsive readings and congregational Scripture recitations within the service.
Placing the readings well within the order of service in coordination with worship planning.

Out of scope:

Preaching and the exposition of the text. That belongs to the Senior Pastor and the elders; this team reads the Word, it does not expound it.
Worship music selection and leadership. That is the Worship Team's charge.
The technical sound and projection of readings. That is the Audio-Visual Team's; this team states its needs.

6. Scale

Shape: a small permanent team of prepared readers scheduled across the Lord's Days, with readers added for special services. Commitment categories are drawn from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). Leadership is one appointed Scripture Reading Team Leader (System 07).

7. Key responsibilities

Confirm the passages to be read each Lord's Day with the Senior Pastor and order of service.
Recruit, prepare, and schedule readers; ensure each reads clearly and reverently.
Coordinate any responsive readings or congregational recitations of Scripture.
Communicate reading plans and needs to worship planning and the elders.

8. Coordination

Senior Pastor and elders: receives the sermon text and the passages to be read, and serves the ministry of the Word in the gathering.
Worship Team (Elders): coordinates the placement of readings within the order of service.
Audio-Visual Team (Elders): states its sound and projection needs for the readings; the AV Team operates the equipment.

9. Resources

No budget line is specifically named for this team; any incidental need is coordinated with the Elder Chair (Purchasing Policy). Facilities needs are coordinated with the Trustees. Scheduling runs through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive, not a measure of polish. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the elders each August.

The Word is read clearly and reverently every Lord's Day; the congregation hears it well.
Readers come prepared, knowing the passage before they stand.
A small roster of readers is maintained and trained, so the reading does not fall to one or two.
Readings are confirmed and placed in good time, in step with the order of service.

11. Review and approval

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c (ministry of the Word under the elders); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard (Ministry of the Word).
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map; Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "26 — Scripture Reading Team Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Worship Team Charter and Audio-Visual Team Charter (sibling forms for parallelism); Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

Prayer Team Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Prayer Team Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

A praying church is the work; this team tends the fire it does not own.

Prayer is the breath of the whole congregation, not the assignment of a few. This team coordinates and cultivates the church's prayer so the body prays together and the body prays alone, never the squad that prays so the church does not have to.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Elders (recommended placement; see review note). Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Corporate prayer is bound up with the ministry of the Word and the Lord's Day gathering, which sit under the elders, so this team works first with the elders. Every team has a home.

2. Purpose

This team exists to cultivate a praying church. Corporate prayer is a real ministry of the church, not a private preference or an optional add-on; it is one of the priorities the church guards. The team coordinates the congregation's shared and intercessory prayer, keeps the church's needs and concerns before the throne, and builds a culture in which the whole body prays. Its concern is not the size of a prayer roster but the faithfulness and reach of the church's praying.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves Gospel-Driven Prayer (Priority 3, System 01), and through it the Ministry of the Word and the Lord's Day Gathering, since the church's prayer rises out of the Word and gathers the people before God.

4. The Commission

The elders commission this team to keep Mayflower a praying church and to coordinate the work of corporate and intercessory prayer within it. The work has three settled lines. First, coordinate corporate prayer: organize the church's shared prayer meetings and prayer occasions on a steady rhythm, and arrange prayer before services, meetings, and events so the gathered body is carried in prayer. Second, carry intercession: maintain a prayer-request system so the congregation's needs and concerns are gathered, kept current, and brought before God, and develop focused prayer initiatives for the church's pressing needs. Third, build the culture: provide resources and encouragement that move ordinary members to pray, both alone and together, so prayer is the climate of the church and not the task of a committee. The team prays with its own hands and stirs the body to pray; it never carries the congregation's praying so the congregation does not have to.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Organizing the church's corporate prayer meetings and prayer occasions on a steady rhythm.
Arranging and coordinating prayer before services, meetings, and events.
Maintaining a prayer-request system that gathers, keeps current, and circulates the congregation's needs and concerns appropriately.
Developing focused prayer initiatives for the church's needs, concerns, and direction.
Providing resources and encouragement that equip the congregation to pray personally and corporately.
Recruiting and training prayer-team volunteers and intercessors.

Out of scope:

Setting the pastoral content and order of the Lord's Day gathering. The Senior Pastor and elders hold that; this team serves it and arranges prayer within and around it (see Coordination).
Pastoral counsel, shepherding decisions, and the care of members in crisis. That belongs to the elders, the deacons, and the church's counseling ministry; this team intercedes and points needs to the right care rather than carrying it.
Handling confidential or sensitive matters as public prayer requests. The team keeps appropriate discretion and does not circulate what was shared in confidence.
Becoming the church's substitute for praying. The team coordinates and stirs prayer; the praying stays the whole congregation's, and the team's intercession never replaces the body's.

6. Scale

Shape: a small permanent core of intercessors who coordinate the church's prayer rhythm, expanding with recruited volunteers for special prayer occasions and seasons, drawing commitment categories from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The team recruits and trains intercessors and mobilizes the wider body rather than absorbing all the praying itself. Leadership is one appointed Prayer Team Leader (System 07, "21 — Prayer Team Leader").

7. Key responsibilities

Coordinate the church's corporate prayer meetings and prayer occasions on a steady rhythm.
Arrange prayer before services, meetings, and events, in step with Worship and First Impressions.
Maintain a prayer-request system and circulate needs appropriately, keeping confidences.
Develop focused prayer initiatives for the church's needs, concerns, and direction.
Recruit, train, and encourage prayer-team volunteers and intercessors.
Provide resources that cultivate personal and corporate prayer across the congregation.
Partner with the Senior Pastor in praying for the church's direction and leadership.
Communicate plans, encouragements, and needs to the elders.

8. Coordination

Worship Team and First Impressions: this team coordinates pre-service prayer and the Sunday prayer huddle, fitting the praying around the order of service that Worship leads and the welcome that First Impressions runs, so the gathered body and those serving it are prayed for before the doors open.
Senior Pastor: partners with this team in praying for the church's direction and leadership, and brings the church's pressing concerns into the prayer initiatives.
All teams and boards: this team carries prayer support for the whole body, receiving the needs and concerns of other teams and bringing them before God. Prayer support flows to every ministry; pastoral decisions and care do not flow back to this team.

9. Resources

Budget line: none specifically named for this team; resource needs are coordinated with the Senior Pastor and met through the elders' provision (Purchasing Policy). [Confirm whether a dedicated prayer-resources line should be established.] Facilities needs for prayer meetings and occasions are coordinated with the Trustees. Prayer scheduling and volunteer requests run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive, not a measure of attendance numbers. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the elders each August.

The church prays together on a steady rhythm, and the gathered body is consistently carried in prayer before services and events.
The congregation's needs and concerns are gathered, kept current, and brought before God, with little falling through.
Members are praying in their own homes and circles, not only at appointed meetings; prayer is the climate of the church.
A widening group of intercessors is being trained and encouraged, so the load does not fall on a few.
The church's pressing needs and its direction are being prayed for in step with the Senior Pastor and elders.

11. Review and approval

Standing charter, reviewed annually at the August Leadership Summit. Re-ratified by the Servants Council on material change. Escalation beyond the team's or elders' authority follows the Decision-Making Framework (System 09). Leadership succession follows the Leadership Handoff Guidelines (System 12). Review note: the bylaws are silent on the oversight home for prayer. The Team-to-Board Oversight Map places this team under the elders as a recommendation, on the ground that corporate prayer is bound up with the Word and worship, which the elders oversee. This placement awaits elder ratification; confirm at the next review.

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters); bylaws silent on prayer's oversight home (see review note).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard (Gospel-Driven Prayer, Priority 3).
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map (prayer placed under elders as a recommendation); Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "21 — Prayer Team Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Worship Team Charter, First Impressions material (sibling forms for parallelism); Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

Baptism Team Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Baptism Team Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

The elders open the gate; this team prepares the way and helps the church rejoice.

Baptism is the church's public welcome of a believer who has trusted Christ. The elders examine and approve who comes to the water; this team makes the day ready, walks the candidate through it, and helps the body celebrate and gather the newly baptized into its life.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Elders (Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.2, baptism explicitly under the elders). Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Every team has a home; this team works first with the elders.

2. Purpose

This team exists to serve the church's celebration of believer's baptism, the public sign by which a believer who has trusted Christ is received and the body rejoices. Mayflower practices believer's baptism by immersion. The team prepares candidates practically and pastorally for the day, handles the logistics that make it ready, and helps the church celebrate and incorporate the newly baptized into its life. The theological gate stays with the elders; this team makes ready the welcome.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves Membership and Shepherding Care, the church's front door, and Disciple-Making Pathways (System 01). Baptism is where a new believer is publicly received and set on the path of following Christ within the body.

4. The Commission

The elders commission this team to make Mayflower's baptisms ready, dignified, and joyful, and to help the church receive the newly baptized well. The work follows the elders' lead: once the elders have examined and approved a candidate and their testimony, this team prepares that candidate practically and pastorally for the day, handles the logistics that make the service ready, and helps the body celebrate and incorporate the newly baptized. The scale is modest and event-shaped: a small core that gathers around each baptism as it comes, rather than a standing program. The team does not set the church's baptismal theology or decide who is baptized; it serves the ordinance the elders steward.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Preparing approved candidates practically and pastorally for the day of their baptism, including walking them through what to expect.
Handling logistics: water, clothing, equipment, and the readiness of the service.
Arranging photography or videography of baptisms.
Helping the church celebrate baptisms publicly and incorporate the newly baptized into the life of the body.
Communicating with the elders on scheduling and candidate readiness.

Out of scope:

Examining or approving candidates and their testimony for baptism. The elders hold the theological gate; this team does not examine or approve anyone (Coordination).
Setting or deciding the church's baptismal theology or who is eligible. That belongs to the elders.
The ongoing discipleship and membership process beyond the day itself. That belongs to EQUIP Discipleship and the assimilation pathway; this team helps hand the newly baptized into it.

6. Scale

Shape: a small permanent core team that gathers around each baptism service as it comes, expanding with recruited helpers as a particular service needs, drawing commitment categories from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The core does not staff every task itself; it recruits help around each occasion. Leadership is one appointed Baptism Team Leader (System 07, "29 — Baptism Team Leader").

7. Key responsibilities

Prepare approved candidates practically and pastorally for the day, after the elders have approved them.
Ready the logistics of each baptism: water, clothing, equipment, and the flow of the service.
Arrange photography or videography and any keepsake of the day.
Help the church celebrate each baptism publicly and welcome the newly baptized into the body's life.
Hand the newly baptized toward ongoing discipleship and the membership pathway.
Communicate with the elders on scheduling and readiness.

8. Coordination

Elders: hold the theological gate. The elders examine and approve each candidate and their testimony; only then does this team prepare the candidate and ready the day. The dividing line is clear: the elders decide who is baptized and what baptism means; the team makes the day ready and helps the church rejoice.
Evangelism Team and EQUIP Discipleship (Elders): receive and walk new believers arriving toward baptism, handing them to the elders for examination and to this team for preparation once approved.
First Impressions (Deacons) and the assimilation pathway: coordinate the welcome and incorporation of the newly baptized into the ongoing life and membership process of the church.

9. Resources

Budget line: none specifically named; incidental costs are coordinated with the Elder Chair under the elders' budget (Purchasing Policy). Facilities and equipment needs for the baptistery and service are coordinated with the Trustees. Scheduling and volunteer requests run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive, not a baptism-count scoreboard. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the elders each August.

Each baptism is ready, dignified, and unhurried, with logistics handled so the day points to Christ and not to glitches.
Candidates arrive at the water prepared and cared for, knowing what to expect.
The line with the elders holds: the team never finds itself examining or approving candidates.
The newly baptized are celebrated by the body and handed well into discipleship and membership, with few drifting after the day.

11. Review and approval

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.2 (baptism explicitly under the elders); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard (Membership and Shepherding Care; Disciple-Making Pathways).
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map; Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "29 — Baptism Team Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Evangelism Team Charter and Missions Team Charter (sibling form for parallelism); Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

Missions Team Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Missions Team Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

The gospel that gathers us here sends us out beyond here.

This team carries the church's reach past its own field: it supports the workers Mayflower sends and supports far off, and it raises up the larger shared occasions that take the body into Kingston and Plymouth County together. The going is the whole church's; this team gives it shape and sends it well.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Elders (Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.2, missions and outreach under the elders). Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Every team has a home; this team works first with the elders.

2. Purpose

Mayflower's outward calling is not one ministry among many. It is the overflow of the five priorities the church guards. This team exists to extend that calling beyond the local field: to support and send the global and regional missionaries the church stands behind, and to develop and run the larger shared gospel-outreach occasions that gather the body for witness across Kingston and Plymouth County. It gives the church a way to reach those its own everyday witness cannot reach alone, and it keeps the going well-ordered and well-prayed.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves the church's outward calling, which overflows from all five of the Five Priority Ministries We Guard (System 01) and is bound most closely to Gospel-Driven Prayer and Disciple-Making Pathways.

4. The Commission

The elders commission this team to carry Mayflower's gospel reach beyond its own doorstep, in two settled lines of work. First, support and send: maintain the church's relationships with the global and regional missionaries it stands behind, coordinating prayer, giving, and communication so they are known, carried, and not forgotten. Second, mobilize the larger occasions: develop and run two to four gospel-outreach activities each year in Kingston and Plymouth County, recruiting ad hoc teams for each specific event rather than staffing every event from the core team. The work is steady, not sprawling: a small core that organizes and recruits, a handful of named occasions a year, and a faithful tie to the workers far off. Gospel-outreach work requires the church's evangelism training as a prerequisite, so those who go are ready to bear witness.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Supporting and sending the church's global and regional missionaries, including coordinating prayer, giving, and ongoing communication with them.
Developing and running two to four gospel-outreach occasions each year in Kingston and Plymouth County.
Recruiting ad hoc teams for specific outreach events as needed, and standing up the larger event teams.
Requiring the church's evangelism training as a prerequisite for gospel-outreach work.
Communicating regularly with the elders on plans, partners, and needs.

Out of scope:

The local field itself: the body's own direct, everyday gospel witness here, ongoing equipping for personal evangelism, and the follow-up of new believers. That is the Evangelism Team's charge (see Coordination).
Examining or approving people for membership or baptism. That belongs to the elders.
Becoming the team that does the going so the congregation does not have to. The going stays the whole church's; this team sends and mobilizes rather than substitutes.
Setting numerical conversion or sending goals as the measure of faithfulness. Fruit is the Lord's to give.

6. Scale

Shape: a small permanent core team that expands with recruited volunteers for specific outreach occasions, drawing commitment categories from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The core team organizes and recruits rather than absorbing every event itself; for each named occasion it stands up an ad hoc team rather than carrying the whole load alone. Leadership is one appointed Missions Team Leader (System 07, "20 — Missions Team Leader").

7. Key responsibilities

Maintain the church's missionary relationships, coordinating prayer, giving, and communication with the global and regional workers Mayflower supports.
Develop and run the year's two to four local-and-regional gospel-outreach occasions.
Recruit ad hoc teams for specific events rather than staffing every event from the core team.
Keep the evangelism-training prerequisite in front of those serving in gospel-outreach work.
Coordinate with the Evangelism Team so the local field and the wider reach neither overlap nor leave a gap.
Communicate regularly with the elders on plans, partners, and needs.

8. Coordination

Evangelism Team (Elders): clean boundary. Missions carries global and regional missionary support and the larger ad hoc outreach event teams. Evangelism carries the local field: its own direct gospel witness here, the body's everyday readiness and equipping, and new-believer follow-up. The dividing line is reach, not who does the work. Sending and supporting workers beyond the local field is Missions' to carry; the everyday local witness and follow-up is Evangelism's. Where a local-and-regional occasion touches both, the two plan it together so neither overlaps the other nor leaves a gap.
Elders: approve missionary partnerships and the year's outreach occasions, and receive regular reports on partners and plans.
Trustees: facilities needs for outreach occasions are coordinated here for space only.

9. Resources

Budget line: Outreach Fund, administered by the Elder Chair (Purchasing Policy). Facilities needs for outreach occasions are coordinated with the Trustees. Outreach scheduling and volunteer requests run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive, not a sending scoreboard. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the elders each August.

The church's missionaries are known, prayed for, given to, and in regular contact, not merely names on a list.
The year's two to four outreach occasions happen, are well-prepared, and are carried by recruited teams rather than the core alone.
Those serving in gospel-outreach work have come through the church's evangelism training.
The boundary with Evangelism is working: shared occasions are planned together, and nothing in the local field is falling between the two teams.
The congregation, not only the team, is going on the shared occasions.

11. Review and approval

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.2 (missions and outreach under the elders); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard; Missions and Outreach ("the gospel overflows from the five priority ministries").
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map; Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "20 — Missions Team Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Purchasing Policy (Outreach Fund, Elder Chair).
Missions Team Charter draft 2 (substance inherited and upgraded); Evangelism Team Charter (sibling form for parallelism); Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

Shoebox Ministry Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Shoebox Ministry Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

A small gift, packed in love, carries the gospel where we cannot go.

This ministry gives the whole congregation a simple, tangible way to send mercy and the good news of Christ to children in need. The work is seasonal and concentrated, but the heart behind it is the church's outward calling, kept small enough to strengthen the priorities rather than drain them.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Elders. Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Every team has a home; this team works first with the elders. (See Review note: a formal change is pending to align the System 07 position description, which currently names the Deacons, with the placement under the elders.)

2. Purpose

This ministry exists to give Mayflower a simple, shared act of gospel mercy: the church's participation in Operation Christmas Child, packing and sending shoeboxes of gifts and the good news to children in need. It is a seasonal supporting ministry. It does not stand alongside the five priorities as a rival; it serves the church's outward calling in a small, concrete way, and it must strengthen the priorities without draining the church's people or capacity (System 01).

3. Priority-ministry link

This ministry serves the church's outward calling, which overflows from the Five Priority Ministries We Guard (System 01). As a supporting ministry it exists to feed that calling, not to compete with the priorities for the church's limited capacity.

4. The Commission

The elders commission this ministry to lead Mayflower's participation in Operation Christmas Child each year, concentrated at collection time. The work is seasonal: a small core ministry that, for one season a year, mobilizes the wider congregation to pack shoeboxes, then handles collection, sorting, and handoff to the partner organization. The scale is deliberately modest. The core stays small the rest of the year and grows only seasonally through congregational participation, so the effort lifts the whole body for a season without becoming a standing draw on the church's capacity. As a supporting ministry, its measure is whether it strengthens the church's outward heart, not whether it grows into a year-round program.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Leading the church's seasonal participation in Operation Christmas Child (Operation packing, collection, sorting, handoff).
Mobilizing the wider congregation to take part during the collection season.
Communicating the ministry to the congregation and fostering a spirit of generosity and service.
Coordinating with the partner organization on logistics and deadlines.

Out of scope:

Becoming a year-round or expanding program. This is a seasonal supporting ministry by design; growth in scope is an elder decision, not the team's to assume.
Carrying the church's benevolence or mercy budget, or local benevolence cases. That belongs to the Deacons.
The broader missionary support and the larger outreach event teams. That is the Missions Team's charge (see Coordination).
Drawing on the church's people or capacity in a way that competes with the five priorities. A supporting ministry serves the priorities; it does not drain them.

6. Scale

Shape: a small permanent core ministry that mobilizes the wider congregation seasonally, concentrated at collection time, drawing commitment categories from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The core does not staff the whole effort itself; it recruits and mobilizes the body for the season. Leadership is one appointed Shoebox Ministry Leader (System 07, "30 — Shoebox Ministry Leader").

7. Key responsibilities

Organize the church's seasonal shoebox effort: packing, collection, sorting, and handoff.
Mobilize and equip the congregation to participate during the season.
Communicate the ministry clearly and on time so the body can take part.
Coordinate logistics and deadlines with the partner organization.
Keep the ministry seasonal and right-sized, flagging to the elders before any expansion of scope.
Communicate with the elders on plans, timing, and needs.

8. Coordination

Missions Team (Elders): Shoebox sits within the same outward-calling family. Missions carries the broader missionary support and the larger outreach event teams; Shoebox carries this one seasonal, concrete act of gospel mercy. The two coordinate so the church's outreach calendar is not overloaded in any one season and the ministries reinforce rather than compete.
Elders: approve the seasonal effort and any change in its scope, and receive reports at season's end.
Trustees: facilities needs for packing and collection space are coordinated here for space only.

9. Resources

Budget line: Outreach Fund, administered by the Elder Chair (Purchasing Policy). Facilities needs for packing and collection are coordinated with the Trustees. Scheduling and volunteer requests run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the ministry is alive, not a box-count scoreboard. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the elders each August.

The seasonal effort happens well and on time, with the partner organization's deadlines met.
The wider congregation takes part, so the ministry lifts the body rather than resting on a few.
The ministry stays seasonal and right-sized, not quietly expanding into a year-round draw on capacity.
The work is held as gospel mercy, not as a logistics drive, and the congregation understands what the gifts carry.

11. Review and approval

Standing charter, reviewed annually at the August Leadership Summit. Re-ratified by the Servants Council on material change. Escalation beyond the team's or elders' authority follows the Decision-Making Framework (System 09). Leadership succession follows the Leadership Handoff Guidelines (System 12). Review note: a formal change is pending. The current System 07 position description ("30 — Shoebox Ministry Leader") names the Board of Deacons as the accountable board. This charter places the ministry under the Elders to preserve the bylaws' pattern of missions and outreach under the elders (Art. II §B 1.c.2). A proposal will be brought to the Servants Council on July 11, 2026 to formalize the move from Deacon to Elder oversight and update the position description to match.

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.2 (board oversight of ministry); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard (supporting ministries must strengthen the priorities without draining capacity).
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map (Shoebox assigned to Elders; note that deacons "could equally be argued"); Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "30 — Shoebox Ministry Leader" (names Board of Deacons; conflict flagged in Review note).
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Purchasing Policy (Outreach Fund, Elder Chair).
Missions Team Charter (sibling form for parallelism); Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

EQUIP Discipleship Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

EQUIP Discipleship Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

We do not leave growth to chance; we lay out a path and walk people down it.

A new believer should not have to guess how to grow. This team builds the structured road from first faith toward maturity, and trains the people who walk it with others. The aim is settled disciples, not finished programs.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Elders (Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.2, discipleship explicitly under the elders). Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Every team has a home; this team works first with the elders.

2. Purpose

This team exists to grow believers into maturity through structured, ongoing discipleship. It builds and maintains the church's learning pathways, develops the curriculum that fills them, and trains the facilitators who carry them. Its concern is not the running of classes for their own sake but the forming of disciples: that members move along a clear path from first faith toward settled, biblically grounded Christian living.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves Disciple-Making Pathways (System 01). It is the structured backbone of how Mayflower moves a believer from new faith toward maturity.

4. The Commission

The elders commission this team to own the church's structured, ongoing discipleship and its learning pathways. The work has a steady scale across the year. First, build: develop or adopt sound, theologically faithful curriculum and lay out the learning pathways that carry a believer from new faith toward maturity. Second, train: recruit and equip the facilitators who lead the cohorts, so that the teaching does not rest on one or two people. Third, run: convene the discipleship cohorts on a regular rhythm through the year and shepherd participants along the path. Fourth, receive: take new believers handed in from the Evangelism Team and the assimilation process and set them on the path. This is a curriculum-and-cohort team, not a fellowship-group network; it carries the structured training of the church and trains the body to carry it too.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Developing or adopting the church's discipleship curriculum and learning pathways.
Recruiting, training, and supporting EQUIP cohort facilitators.
Convening structured discipleship cohorts on a regular rhythm through the year.
Receiving new believers from Evangelism and the assimilation process and setting them on the path.
Keeping a pastoral record of who is moving along the pathways for the elders, not a completion scoreboard.

Out of scope:

Ongoing small-group fellowship and study. That is the Bible Fellowship Groups' charge (see Coordination); BFGs are ongoing fellowship and study, EQUIP is structured cohort training with a curriculum.
The church's direct gospel witness and the early follow-up of new believers. That belongs to the Evangelism Team, which hands followed-up new believers into EQUIP.
The membership process and new-member orientation as such. EQUIP supplies the discipleship content the path runs on; the membership pathway is the church's to administer.
Treating a finished course as the goal. The measure is a maturing disciple, not a completed syllabus.

6. Scale

Shape: a small permanent core that builds curriculum and trains facilitators, expanding through the facilitators it raises to run cohorts across the year. Commitment categories are drawn from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The team multiplies facilitators rather than teaching every cohort itself. Leadership is one appointed EQUIP Discipleship Leader (System 07).

7. Key responsibilities

Build or adopt sound discipleship curriculum and maintain the learning pathways.
Recruit, train, and support cohort facilitators so the teaching is not carried by a few.
Convene structured discipleship cohorts on a regular rhythm through the year.
Receive new believers from Evangelism and assimilation and set them on the path.
Keep a pastoral record of participants' progress for the elders.
Communicate plans, encouragements, and needs to the elders.

8. Coordination

Evangelism Team (Elders): mirror boundary. Evangelism hands new believers and followed-up gospel contacts INTO EQUIP; EQUIP receives them and sets them on the structured path. The dividing line is the stage of the journey, not who does the work: Evangelism carries first witness and early follow-up, EQUIP carries the ongoing structured training that follows.
Bible Fellowship Groups (Elders): clean boundary. EQUIP runs structured cohorts with a set curriculum for a season; BFGs are ongoing fellowship and study with no end date. EQUIP develops the leader-track training that BFGs draw on; BFGs are where formed disciples keep growing in community. The two are complements, not competitors.
The assimilation and membership process: receives and feeds the discipleship pathway alongside Evangelism.

9. Resources

Budget line: "Discipleship and Evangelism supplies," administered by the Elder Chair (Purchasing Policy). This is a shared line with the Evangelism Team; the two coordinate their draws on it. Facilities needs for cohorts are coordinated with the Trustees. Cohort scheduling and volunteer requests run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive, not a course-completion scoreboard. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the elders each August.

Cohorts are running on a steady rhythm, not starting and stalling.
A widening bench of trained facilitators is carrying the teaching, not a few.
New believers handed in from Evangelism are reliably finding a place on the path.
Curriculum stays sound and is reviewed for faithfulness, not just kept running.
Participants are visibly maturing in the Word and in Christian living, the path bearing fruit beyond attendance.

11. Review and approval

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.2 (discipleship under the elders); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard (Disciple-Making Pathways).
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map; Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "27 — EQUIP Discipleship Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Purchasing Policy (Discipleship and Evangelism supplies, Elder Chair; shared with the Evangelism Team).
Evangelism Team Charter and Bible Fellowship Groups Charter (sibling forms for parallelism); Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

Bible Fellowship Groups Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Bible Fellowship Groups Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

The church grows in the Word together, in rooms small enough to be known.

Bible Fellowship Groups are where the gathered church becomes the knowing church. Here the Word is studied, prayer is shared, and members are cared for by name. The aim is believers who are both fed and held, not a count of groups on a chart.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Elders (Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.2, Bible Fellowship Groups explicitly under the elders). Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Every team has a home; this ministry works first with the elders.

2. Purpose

The Bible Fellowship Group ministry exists so that the church studies the Word and cares for one another in groups small enough for members to be known. It carries two of the church's callings at once: it forms believers in Scripture, and it is the first place much of the church's pastoral care happens. Its concern is not the number of groups but the health of them: that the Word is rightly handled, that members are known and prayed for, and that no one is left to grow alone.

3. Priority-ministry link

This ministry serves Disciple-Making Pathways and Membership and Shepherding Care (System 01). Groups are where ongoing formation in the Word and frontline pastoral care meet.

4. The Commission

The elders commission this ministry to maintain a healthy network of Bible Fellowship Groups that form believers in the Word and care for one another. This charters the ministry as a whole, not a single team: it is a network of ongoing groups, each meeting regularly under its own appointed leader who is accountable to the elders. The work has a steady scale. First, form: each group studies Scripture together on a regular rhythm using sound resources. Second, care: each group prays for and shepherds its members, carrying frontline pastoral care and surfacing needs to the elders. Third, sustain: the ministry as a whole keeps the network healthy, raising and supporting group leaders so the church is served by enough good groups without burning out a few. The measure is groups that feed and hold their people, not the size of the network.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Convening ongoing Bible Fellowship Groups that meet regularly for study of the Word.
Frontline pastoral care within groups: praying for, knowing, and shepherding members, and surfacing needs to the elders.
Group evangelism and the welcome of new believers and visitors into group life.
Keeping the network of groups healthy: enough groups, well-led, so members have a place to be known.
Communicating group needs and prayer requests to the elders.

Out of scope:

Structured, time-bound discipleship cohorts with a set curriculum. That is EQUIP Discipleship's charge (see Coordination); BFGs are ongoing fellowship and study with no end date.
The church's direct gospel witness and early follow-up of new believers. That belongs to the Evangelism Team; groups receive and assimilate new believers handed to them.
Formal counseling and care needs that exceed what a group can carry. Those bridge to the Director of Biblical Counseling and the elders (see Coordination).
Treating the count of groups or attendance as the measure. The measure is members fed in the Word and known in care.

6. Scale

Shape: this is a ministry-level charter for a network, not a single team. The ministry is the standing body of Bible Fellowship Groups taken together; each individual group is a small, ongoing fellowship led by one appointed Bible Fellowship Group Leader (System 07), accountable to the elders. The network expands by raising new leaders and starting new groups as the church grows, drawing commitment categories from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The aim is to multiply healthy groups, not to enlarge any one beyond knowing. This single ministry-level charter governs the Bible Fellowship Groups ministry as a whole; each group runs under it rather than under its own separate charter.

7. Key responsibilities

Convene ongoing groups that study the Word regularly using sound resources.
Pray for, know, and shepherd group members as frontline pastoral care.
Welcome new believers and visitors into group life and assimilate them.
Keep the network healthy: raise, support, and sustain group leaders.
Surface care needs and prayer requests to the elders, and bridge needs that exceed a group to biblical counseling.
Communicate plans, encouragements, and needs to the elders.

8. Coordination

EQUIP Discipleship (Elders): clean boundary and a feed line. BFGs are ongoing fellowship and study; EQUIP runs structured cohorts with a curriculum. EQUIP develops the leader-track training that BFG leaders draw on; BFGs are where formed disciples keep growing in community. The two are complements, not competitors.
Evangelism Team (Elders): groups carry group evangelism and receive new believers handed in for assimilation into group life.
Director of Biblical Counseling (Elders): bridge for care. A group carries frontline care; when a member's need exceeds what a group can hold, the leader bridges it to the Director of Biblical Counseling and the elders.

9. Resources

Budget line: [no budget line is specifically named for this ministry in the source; confirm whether group resources draw on a discipleship line administered by the Elder Chair, or whether groups are self-resourced.] Facilities needs for groups that meet on church property are coordinated with the Trustees. Group scheduling and rosters run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the network is alive, not a group count or attendance scoreboard. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the elders each August.

Groups are handling the Word rightly and meeting on a steady rhythm.
Members report being known, prayed for, and cared for in their group.
New believers and visitors are landing in groups, not falling through.
A bench of group leaders is being raised, so new groups can start as the church grows.
Care needs beyond a group are bridged to counseling and the elders, not left to sit.

11. Review and approval

Standing charter, reviewed annually at the August Leadership Summit. Re-ratified by the Servants Council on material change. Escalation beyond the ministry's or elders' authority follows the Decision-Making Framework (System 09). Leadership succession follows the Leadership Handoff Guidelines (System 12). Review note: this is the single ministry-level charter for the Bible Fellowship Groups ministry as a whole, charters as a group-network rather than as a single team. Each individual group runs under this one charter and does not carry its own separate charter.

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.2 (Bible Fellowship Groups under the elders); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard (Disciple-Making Pathways; Membership and Shepherding Care).
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map; Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "17 — Bible Fellowship Group Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Director of Biblical Counseling position description ("16 — Director of Biblical Counseling," bridge between group care and formal counseling).
EQUIP Discipleship Charter and Evangelism Team Charter (sibling forms for parallelism); Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

Women's Ministry Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Women's Ministry Leadership Team Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

We disciple the women of the church in the Word, in friendship, and in care.

The women of Mayflower grow as the whole church grows: under the Word, alongside one another, and held in care. This team leads that work and raises up the women who carry it. The aim is women who are formed in Scripture and known by name.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Elders. [The oversight map places this team under elder discipleship oversight as a recommendation; confirm with the elders.] Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Every team has a home; this team works first with the elders.

2. Purpose

This team exists to disciple the women of the church through Bible study, fellowship, and care, led by a women's leadership team. It serves the formation of the women of Mayflower: that they are grounded in Scripture, joined to one another in genuine friendship, and held in care through the seasons of life. Its concern is not a calendar of events but the spiritual growth of women in the body.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves Disciple-Making Pathways (System 01). It carries the discipleship of the women of the church within the church's wider work of forming believers.

4. The Commission

The elders commission this team to disciple the women of the church through Bible study, fellowship, and care, led by a women's leadership team. The work has a steady scale through the year. First, study: convene women's Bible study so that the women of the church are formed under Scripture on a regular rhythm. Second, gather: create occasions for genuine fellowship and friendship among the women of the body. Third, care: attend to needs that arise among women and surface them to the elders and the church's care. Fourth, lead: a leadership team carries this work together and raises up other women to share it, so the ministry does not rest on one. The measure is women formed in the Word and known to one another, not a full event calendar.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Convening women's Bible study on a regular rhythm through the year.
Creating occasions for fellowship and friendship among the women of the church.
Attending to needs among women and surfacing them to the elders and the church's care.
Raising up and mentoring women to share the leadership of this work.

Out of scope:

The ongoing Bible Fellowship Groups, including women's groups. Those are the Bible Fellowship Groups' charge (see Coordination); this team coordinates with the BFG ministry rather than running a parallel group network.
The structured discipleship cohorts and curriculum. Those belong to EQUIP Discipleship, whose pathways this team points women toward.
Formal counseling and care that exceeds what the team can carry. Those bridge to the elders and biblical counseling.
Treating the count of events or attendance as the measure. The measure is women growing in the Word and known in the body.

6. Scale

Shape: a women's leadership team that leads the work together, expanding through the women it raises to carry studies, gatherings, and care, drawing commitment categories from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The team mobilizes other women rather than leaning on one or two. Leadership is one appointed Women's Ministry Leadership Team Leader (System 07).

7. Key responsibilities

Convene women's Bible study on a regular rhythm.
Plan occasions for fellowship and friendship among the women of the church.
Attend to needs among women and surface them to the elders and the church's care.
Raise up and mentor women to share the leadership of the work.
Point women toward the church's wider discipleship pathways and groups.
Communicate plans, encouragements, and needs to the elders.

8. Coordination

Bible Fellowship Groups (Elders): clean boundary. Women's groups belong to the BFG ministry; this team coordinates with it and points women into groups rather than running a parallel network of its own.
EQUIP Discipleship (Elders): this team points women toward the structured discipleship cohorts and pathways EQUIP carries.
The elders and biblical counseling: care needs among women that exceed the team are surfaced and bridged here.

9. Resources

Budget line: [no budget line is specifically named for this team in the source; confirm whether women's ministry draws on a discipleship line administered by the Elder Chair, or is funded per event.] Facilities needs for studies and gatherings are coordinated with the Trustees. Scheduling and registrations run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive, not an event or attendance scoreboard. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the elders each August.

Women's Bible study is running on a steady rhythm and handling the Word well.
Women report genuine friendship and being known within the body.
Needs among women are noticed and brought into the church's care, not left unseen.
A widening group of women is being raised to share the leadership of the work.
Women are being pointed into the church's wider groups and discipleship pathways, not held in a silo.

11. Review and approval

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.2 (board oversight of ministry); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard (Disciple-Making Pathways).
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map (women's ministry placed under elder discipleship oversight as a recommendation); Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "31 — Women's Ministry Leadership Team Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Bible Fellowship Groups Charter and EQUIP Discipleship Charter (sibling forms for parallelism); Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

DiscipleTown Charter — Version A (Elders-only, proposed)

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

DiscipleTown Charter

Version A — Elders-only oversight (proposed for Servants Council, July 11, 2026)

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

We teach the children the truth, and we keep them safe while we do it.

The church's children are owed two things at once: the sound Word taught in a way they can hold, and a safe place to receive it. This team carries both. The aim is children who know the gospel and parents who can trust the room.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Elders. Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Every team has a home; this team works first with the elders. The Elders hold program oversight for the whole of the ministry: content, curriculum, theological direction, and the conduct of the program. The team follows the church-wide Child Safety Policy in every gathering. Three distinct roles meet here, and they do not compete. Program oversight belongs to the Elders. The Child Safety Policy itself is owned and overseen by the Servants Council, which holds the church's policies. The Deacons are responsible for ensuring that the Child Safety Policy is managed and applied properly across all children's ministry, DiscipleTown included. Because these are three different roles, moving DiscipleTown's program oversight to the Elders does not weaken child protection: the policy stays with the Servants Council, the Deacons keep ensuring it is applied, and only program oversight moves to the Elders.

2. Purpose

This team exists to disciple the church's children with sound, age-appropriate Bible teaching in a safe environment. It carries the church's children's Christian education: teaching the truth in a way children can receive, and keeping them safe while it does. Its concern is not the running of a children's program for its own sake but the forming of young disciples within a room parents can trust.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves Disciple-Making Pathways (System 01), specifically the children's Christian education by which the church forms its youngest in the faith.

4. The Commission

The Elders commission this team to disciple the church's children with sound, age-appropriate Bible teaching in a safe environment. The work runs on a steady weekly scale and carries two charges that must stay joined. First, teach: deliver sound, age-appropriate Bible instruction to the church's children on the Lord's Day and at appointed children's occasions through the year, under curriculum and theological direction the Elders own. Second, protect: keep children safe in every gathering, under the church-wide Child Safety Policy, so that every worker is screened and trained before serving. Both charges sit under elder program oversight. The Child Safety Policy is owned by the Servants Council and its proper application is ensured by the Deacons; this team follows it in full within elder program oversight. The measure is children learning the gospel within a room that is demonstrably safe, not a headcount in the classroom.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Teaching sound, age-appropriate Bible content to the church's children on the Lord's Day and at appointed children's occasions.
Owning the children's curriculum and lessons under the Elders' theological direction.
Recruiting, training, and scheduling children's ministry workers.
Keeping children safe under the Child Safety Policy: screening and training every worker, and following the safety protocols in every gathering.
Communicating with parents about their children's growth in the faith.

Out of scope:

The care of infants and toddlers. That is the Nursery Team's charge (see Coordination); this team receives children handed up from the Nursery at the appointed age.
Setting the Child Safety Policy itself. The Servants Council owns and oversees the policy; this team follows it and keeps children safe within it.
Setting the church's theological direction. The Elders own the doctrine and the curriculum direction; this team teaches faithfully within it.
The recruitment process and worker screening mechanics as a standalone system. Those follow the Volunteer Chapter and Child Safety Policy; this team applies them rather than redefining them.
Treating attendance as the measure. The measure is children formed in sound truth within a safe room.

6. Scale

Shape: a permanent core of teaching leaders and a roster of trained, screened children's workers scheduled across the Lord's Days, expanding for special children's occasions such as Vacation Bible School and the Christmas program. Commitment categories are drawn from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The team recruits and trains workers rather than leaning on a few. Leadership is one appointed DiscipleTown Leader (System 07).

7. Key responsibilities

Teach sound, age-appropriate Bible content to children weekly and at appointed occasions.
Maintain the children's curriculum and lessons under the Elders' theological direction.
Recruit, train, and schedule children's workers.
Keep children safe under the church-wide Child Safety Policy in every gathering.
Communicate with parents about their children's growth in the faith.
Communicate plans, encouragements, and needs to the Elders.

8. Coordination

Elders: program oversight for the whole ministry, content and conduct alike. The children's leaders work with the Elders on curriculum, content, theological direction, and the conduct of the program, and keep children safe under the church-wide Child Safety Policy within that oversight.
Servants Council: owns and oversees the Child Safety Policy as one of the church's policies. This team follows the policy in full.
Deacons: responsible for ensuring the Child Safety Policy is managed and applied properly across all children's ministry, DiscipleTown included. The team works with the Deacons on the proper application of the policy, screening, and protocols, while program oversight stays with the Elders and the policy itself stays with the Servants Council.
Nursery Team: handoff. The Nursery cares for infants and toddlers; this team receives children handed up at the appointed age and folds them into children's teaching.
Parents: this team works with parents, communicating their children's growth and partnering with the home in the children's discipleship.

9. Resources

Budget line: "DiscipleTown Curriculum," administered by the Elder Chair (Purchasing Policy). Facilities needs for classrooms and children's occasions are coordinated with the Trustees. Scheduling, rosters, and worker screening records run through Planning Center. Workers must hold a current CORI check and complete child-safety training before serving, per the Volunteer Chapter and Child Safety Policy; this is a standing requirement of the role.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive, not an attendance scoreboard. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the Elders each August.

Children are receiving sound, age-appropriate Bible teaching on a steady rhythm.
Every serving worker is screened and trained before serving, with no gaps in coverage.
The Child Safety Policy is followed in every gathering, and parents can trust the room.
A widening roster of trained workers is carrying the load, not a few.
Parents are hearing how their children are growing, and the home and the church are partnered in it.

11. Review and approval

Standing charter, reviewed annually at the August Leadership Summit. Re-ratified by the Servants Council on material change. Escalation beyond the team's or the elders' authority follows the Decision-Making Framework (System 09). Leadership succession follows the Leadership Handoff Guidelines (System 12). Review note for Anton: this is Version A, the Elders-only program-oversight version, proposed to the Servants Council on July 11, 2026. It rests on the three-role division this charter names: program oversight with the Elders, the Child Safety Policy owned and overseen by the Servants Council, and the Deacons ensuring the policy is properly applied across children's ministry. On that division, moving program oversight to the Elders does not weaken child protection, so the earlier reconciliation blocker no longer applies. A Version B exists as the dual program-oversight alternative, kept on file at discipletown-charter-dual-oversight-alternative.md, retained as a fallback if the Council specifically wishes the Deacons to share DiscipleTown's program oversight. The choice between the two versions is the July 11 proposal.

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.2 (board oversight of ministry); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Child Safety Policy, Bylaws Policy Page viii (CORI and child-safety training required of workers). The policy is owned and overseen by the Servants Council; the Deacons ensure it is managed and applied properly across all children's ministry. The bylaw line naming the Deacons in connection with child protection refers to this operational application role and should be read consistent with this division of roles.
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard (Disciple-Making Pathways; children's Christian education).
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map; Volunteer Chapter (worker recruitment, CORI, child-safety training).
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "24 — DiscipleTown Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Purchasing Policy (DiscipleTown Curriculum, Elder Chair).
Nursery Team Charter (sibling form and handoff partner); Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

DiscipleTown Charter — Version B (dual oversight, alternative)

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

DiscipleTown Charter

Version B — Dual program oversight: Elders and Deacons (fallback alternative)

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

We teach the children the truth, and we keep them safe while we do it.

1. Oversight (the home)

Dual oversight, by design. The Elders oversee what is taught: content, curriculum, and theological direction. The Deacons oversee how children are kept safe, per the Child Safety Policy (Bylaws Policy Page viii). The children's leaders work primarily with the Elders for WHAT they teach and primarily with the Deacons for HOW they keep children safe. Where the boundary between teaching and safety is unclear, the matter is taken to the Elder-Deacon Roundtable. Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Every team has a home; this team works first with both boards in their lanes. This is the status quo arrangement; an Elders-only oversight version of this charter exists as the proposed alternative, and the choice between the two is the Servants Council proposal of July 11, 2026.

2. Purpose

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves Disciple-Making Pathways (System 01), specifically the children's Christian education by which the church forms its youngest in the faith.

4. The Commission

The Elders and Deacons together commission this team to disciple the church's children with sound, age-appropriate Bible teaching in a safe environment. The work runs on a steady weekly scale and carries two charges that must stay joined. First, teach: deliver sound, age-appropriate Bible instruction to the church's children on the Lord's Day and at appointed children's occasions through the year, under curriculum and theological direction the Elders own. Second, protect: keep children safe in every gathering, under the Child Safety Policy the Deacons own, so that every worker is screened and trained before serving. The two charges report into two boards: the Elders for what is taught, the Deacons for how children are kept safe. The measure is children learning the gospel within a room that is demonstrably safe, not a headcount in the classroom.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Teaching sound, age-appropriate Bible content to the church's children on the Lord's Day and at appointed children's occasions.
Owning the children's curriculum and lessons under the Elders' theological direction.
Recruiting, training, and scheduling children's ministry workers.
Keeping children safe under the Child Safety Policy: screening and training every worker, and following the safety protocols in every gathering.
Communicating with parents about their children's growth in the faith.

Out of scope:

The care of infants and toddlers. That is the Nursery Team's charge (see Coordination); this team receives children handed up from the Nursery at the appointed age.
Setting the Child Safety Policy itself. The Deacons own the policy; this team follows it and keeps children safe within it.
Setting the church's theological direction. The Elders own the doctrine and the curriculum direction; this team teaches faithfully within it.
The recruitment process and worker screening mechanics as a standalone system. Those follow the Volunteer Chapter and Child Safety Policy; this team applies them rather than redefining them.
Treating attendance as the measure. The measure is children formed in sound truth within a safe room.

6. Scale

7. Key responsibilities

Teach sound, age-appropriate Bible content to children weekly and at appointed occasions.
Maintain the children's curriculum and lessons under the Elders' theological direction.
Recruit, train, and schedule children's workers.
Keep children safe under the Deacons' Child Safety Policy in every gathering.
Communicate with parents about their children's growth in the faith.
Communicate plans, encouragements, and needs to the Elders (teaching) and the Deacons (safety).

8. Coordination

Elders (content) and Deacons (safety): the standing dual relationship. The children's leaders work primarily with the Elders for WHAT they teach (curriculum, content, theological direction) and primarily with the Deacons for HOW they keep children safe (the Child Safety Policy, screening, protocols). When a question sits on the line between teaching and safety, it goes to the Elder-Deacon Roundtable rather than to one board alone.
Nursery Team (Deacons): handoff. The Nursery cares for infants and toddlers; this team receives children handed up at the appointed age and folds them into children's teaching.
Parents: this team works with parents, communicating their children's growth and partnering with the home in the children's discipleship.

9. Resources

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive, not an attendance scoreboard. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the Elders and Deacons each August.

Children are receiving sound, age-appropriate Bible teaching on a steady rhythm.
Every serving worker is screened and trained before serving, with no gaps in coverage.
The Child Safety Policy is followed in every gathering, and parents can trust the room.
A widening roster of trained workers is carrying the load, not a few.
Parents are hearing how their children are growing, and the home and the church are partnered in it.

11. Review and approval

Standing charter, reviewed annually at the August Leadership Summit. Re-ratified by the Servants Council on material change. Because oversight is shared, both boards weigh in: the Elders on content and the Deacons on safety, reconciled at the Elder-Deacon Roundtable. Escalation beyond the team's or boards' authority follows the Decision-Making Framework (System 09). Leadership succession follows the Leadership Handoff Guidelines (System 12). Review note for Anton: this is Version B, the dual program-oversight alternative. A Version A exists that places program oversight with the Elders, kept on file at discipletown-charter.md, and is the recommended version. The choice between the two versions is the Servants Council proposal of July 11, 2026. Clarifying note: at Mayflower, policy oversight properly belongs to the Servants Council (which owns and oversees the Child Safety Policy) and application belongs to the Deacons (who ensure the policy is managed and applied properly across children's ministry). Because those two roles are not program oversight, this dual program-oversight arrangement is likely unnecessary. It is retained only as a fallback if the Council specifically wishes the Deacons to share DiscipleTown's program oversight. Where this version still speaks of the Deacons owning the Child Safety Policy, read it consistent with that correction; the policy belongs to the Servants Council, and the Deacons ensure its proper application.

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Commissioned by: Deacon Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.2 (board oversight of ministry); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Child Safety Policy, Bylaws Policy Page viii (Deacons own child safety across all children's ministry; CORI and child-safety training required of workers).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard (Disciple-Making Pathways; children's Christian education).
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map (dual oversight: Elders for content, Deacons for child safety); Volunteer Chapter (worker recruitment, CORI, child-safety training).
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "24 — DiscipleTown Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Purchasing Policy (DiscipleTown Curriculum, Elder Chair).
Nursery Team Charter (sibling form and handoff partner); Team Charter Standard, this folder.
DiscipleTown Charter, Version A (Elders-only oversight, proposed), discipletown-charter.md.

Team Charters

Biblical Counseling Ministry Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Biblical Counseling Ministry Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

Scripture is sufficient for the soul's troubles; this ministry brings the Word to bear in love.

The God who made us speaks fully and finally in his Word about how we are to live, suffer, repent, and be restored. This ministry offers Christ-centered, Scripture-saturated care to people in real struggle, and refers to licensed clinical providers only for what is genuinely beyond its scope.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing boards: Senior Pastor and Board of Elders. The ministry is led by the Director of Biblical Counseling, a part-time paid staff position recruited by the Senior Pastor and hired and directed by the Servants Council (Bylaws Art. II §B 4.c.9). This is a staff-led ministry, not a volunteer team appointed by a board, and this is a ministry-level charter accordingly. Every ministry has a home; this one works first with the Senior Pastor and the elders.

2. Purpose

This ministry exists to provide the church's biblical counseling: Christ-centered, Scripture-saturated care for individuals and families facing personal, relational, marital, family, grief, and spiritual struggles. It also builds the church's capacity for one-another care by raising up lay counselors. Its care rests on the sufficiency of Scripture for the troubles of the soul. It does not integrate secular psychology as a parallel authority; it brings the Word to bear, and refers out only for matters that are genuinely medical or psychiatric in nature.

3. Priority-ministry link

This ministry serves Membership and Shepherding Care (Priority 5, System 01), and through it the Ministry of the Word, since the care it gives is the Word applied to the struggles of the soul.

4. The Commission

The Senior Pastor and elders commission this ministry, led by the Director of Biblical Counseling, to provide and develop the church's biblical counseling. The work has three settled lines, carried within the Director's part-time weekly schedule (the hours are set in the position description, System 07, not here). First, counsel: provide direct biblical counseling to members and regular attenders in personal, relational, marital, family, grief, and spiritual struggles, screening and assigning cases by their nature and severity. Second, build: recruit, train, and supervise a team of lay biblical counselors so the church grows in its capacity for one-another care, and maintain counseling standards and procedures grounded in Scripture and consistent with the Statement of Faith. Third, bridge and refer: serve as the bridge between small-group pastoral care and formal counseling, and maintain referral relationships with licensed clinical providers for cases requiring medical or psychiatric intervention beyond the scope of biblical counseling. The Director carries cases personally and multiplies the work through trained lay counselors; the ministry never becomes the only place care happens in the church.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Direct biblical counseling of members and regular attenders in personal, relational, marital, family, grief, and spiritual struggles.
Screening, assessing, and assigning counseling cases by their nature and severity.
Recruiting, training, and supervising a team of lay biblical counselors for one-another care.
Maintaining counseling standards, policies, and procedures grounded in Scripture and consistent with the Statement of Faith.
Maintaining confidential, appropriate case documentation in keeping with best practice and applicable law.
Maintaining referral relationships with licensed clinical providers for medical or psychiatric needs beyond the ministry's scope.
Supporting the church's Biblical Conflict Resolution and Restoration process (Bylaws Art. I §A 4) with mediation and counsel when requested by the elders.

Out of scope:

The ordinary pastoral care given in Bible Fellowship Groups. BFG leaders shepherd their members in everyday care; this ministry receives the cases that exceed that care and bridges into formal counseling (see Coordination).
Elder shepherding and church discipline. Cases that touch church discipline or require elder action escalate to the elders; the Director collaborates and supports but does not carry the elders' authority or decisions.
Integrating secular psychology, psychological assessment, or therapeutic models as a parallel authority alongside Scripture. The ministry's care rests on the sufficiency of the Word.
Clinical, medical, or psychiatric treatment. The ministry refers such matters to licensed providers rather than treating them.
Examining or approving people for membership, baptism, or restoration. That belongs to the elders.

6. Scale

Shape: the Director of Biblical Counseling, a part-time paid staff position (hours and terms set in the position description, System 07), together with a team of lay biblical counselors the Director recruits, trains, and supervises. Lay counselor commitment categories are drawn from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The Director carries a regular counseling caseload and multiplies care through the lay team rather than absorbing every case personally. Caseload and team size are kept within what the part-time schedule can faithfully sustain.

7. Key responsibilities

Provide direct biblical counseling and maintain a regular caseload within the part-time schedule.
Screen, assess, and assign cases by nature and severity, matching counselees to counselors.
Recruit, train, and supervise lay biblical counselors and develop the church's one-another care.
Develop and maintain Scripture-grounded counseling standards, policies, and procedures.
Keep strict confidentiality and appropriate case records.
Maintain referral relationships with licensed clinical providers for matters beyond the ministry's scope.
Bridge Bible Fellowship Group care and formal counseling, in step with leaders and deacons.
Collaborate with the Senior Pastor and elders on pastoral-care strategy, crisis response, and cases requiring elder involvement or discipline.

8. Coordination

Senior Pastor and elders: receive collaboration on pastoral-care strategy and crisis response; receive the escalation of cases that touch church discipline or require elder action; hold the authority this ministry serves but does not carry.
Bible Fellowship Group leaders and deacons: identify congregational care needs and refer cases that exceed ordinary group care; this ministry is the bridge between small-group pastoral care and formal counseling.
Licensed clinical providers: receive referral of cases requiring medical or psychiatric intervention beyond the scope of biblical counseling; this ministry maintains those relationships and refers, but does not provide clinical treatment.

9. Resources

Budget line: Counseling Resources, administered by the Lead Counselor (Purchasing Policy), covering counseling resources and professional development. The church provides dedicated counseling space and administrative support through the Church Secretary. [Confirm whether "Lead Counselor" and "Director of Biblical Counseling" are the same role label in the Purchasing Policy and position description.] Facilities needs for counseling space are coordinated with the Trustees. Scheduling and any volunteer requests for lay counselors run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the ministry is alive, not a caseload scoreboard. Confidentiality is preserved in every indicator; none names a counselee. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the Senior Pastor and elders each August.

People in real struggle are receiving Christ-centered, Scripture-saturated care, and the care is genuinely biblical rather than therapeutic in a borrowed key.
A team of trained lay counselors is growing, so care is multiplied and the Director is not the only one who counsels.
The bridge from Bible Fellowship Group care to formal counseling is working; cases that exceed group care reach the ministry rather than going unaddressed.
Cases that touch discipline or require elder action are escalated promptly and handled with the elders, not held inappropriately.
Confidentiality is kept; counselees trust the ministry's discretion.
Referrals to licensed providers happen when, and only when, a matter is genuinely beyond the ministry's scope.

11. Review and approval

Standing charter, reviewed annually at the August Leadership Summit. Re-ratified by the Servants Council on material change. Escalation beyond the ministry's, the Director's, or the elders' authority follows the Decision-Making Framework (System 09). Leadership succession follows the Leadership Handoff Guidelines (System 12); because the Director is a paid staff position, hiring and contractual terms are directed by the Servants Council (Bylaws Art. II §B 4.c.9) rather than by board appointment. This is a ministry-level charter, paired with the Director's staff position description (System 07): the ministry is led by a part-time paid staff member, not a volunteer team leader appointed by a board, and the ministry-level charter is the right artifact for it.

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 4.c.9 (Servants Council directs hiring of staff positions); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters); Art. I §A 4 (Biblical Conflict Resolution and Restoration).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard (Membership and Shepherding Care, Priority 5).
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map; Volunteer Chapter (lay counselor commitment categories).
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "16 — Director of Biblical Counseling" (Staff Position; sufficiency of Scripture, no psychology-as-integration, clinical referral only beyond scope).
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Purchasing Policy (Counseling Resources, administered by the Lead Counselor).
Team Charter Standard, this folder (the form), and the sibling charters for parallelism.

Team Charters

Hospitality Team Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Hospitality Team Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

A welcomed guest is already being loved with the gospel.

Food, a clean room, and an open table are not the work beneath ministry; they are ministry. This team builds belonging in the body and makes the table ready, so that the warmth of Christ is felt before a word is spoken.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Deacons (Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.2, service ministries under the deacons). Day-to-day point person: Deacon Chair. Every team has a home; this team works first with the deacons.

2. Purpose

This team exists to build belonging and fellowship in the body of Christ at Mayflower, and to make the church's tables ready. It organizes food and beverage for the gatherings of the church, keeps the Briggs Building kitchen sound and clean, and lends its welcome to other ministries when they host. The work serves the church's common life and its care for those who grieve.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves The Lord's Day Gathering (System 01) as one of the Sunday Support Teams, and overflows into the church's fellowship and common life.

4. The Commission

The deacons commission this team to build belonging in the body and to carry the food, beverage, and hospitality of the church's gatherings, at a scale that rises and falls with the calendar. The work has three parts. First, fellowship: provide opportunities for members, attenders, visitors, and families to gather in formal and informal settings, building a sense of belonging and family. Second, the table: take the lead in organizing food and beverage for church dinners, socials, outreach activities, coffee hour, and funeral collations, planning the set-up, preparation, serving, and clean-up of each. Third, the kitchen: keep the Briggs Building kitchen supplied, clean, and organized to Board of Health standards. A small permanent core team carries the steady rhythm and recruits a wider circle of volunteers for specific events rather than absorbing every task itself.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Initiating and hosting social and fellowship events that build belonging in the body.
Organizing food and beverage, set-up, serving, and clean-up for church dinners, socials, outreach occasions, coffee hour, and funeral collations.
Maintaining the Briggs Building kitchen supplies, cleanliness, and organization to Board of Health standards.
Lending hospitality support to other ministries' events when asked.

Out of scope:

The Sunday welcome and guest connection at the door. That belongs to First Impressions; this team supports the fellowship side of Sunday (see Coordination).
Kitchen as a facility: repairs, equipment replacement, and building systems are the Trustees' charge; the team keeps the kitchen clean and stocked and escalates facility concerns.
Owning another ministry's event. The team lends hospitality; the hosting ministry owns its event.

6. Scale

Shape: a small permanent core team that expands with volunteers for specific events, drawing commitment categories from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The core team carries coffee hour and the steady rhythm; larger dinners, socials, and collations are staffed by recruiting the wider body rather than staffing every event from the core.

7. Key responsibilities

Plan and host fellowship and social occasions that build belonging across the body.
Organize food and beverage, set-up, serving, and clean-up for the church's gatherings and collations.
Keep the Briggs Building kitchen clean, supplied, and organized to Board of Health standards.
Recruit and mobilize volunteers for specific events rather than carrying every event from the core team.
Support other ministries with hospitality when asked.
Communicate regularly with the deacons on plans, supplies, and needs.

8. Coordination

Sanctuary and First Impressions (Deacons, Sunday support): the three serve the Lord's Day together. First Impressions carries the welcome at the door; Sanctuary readies the room; Hospitality readies the table and the fellowship that follows.
Kitchen Team: coordinates use of the Briggs Building kitchen and its readiness for events.
Other ministries needing event hospitality: Hospitality lends its welcome; the hosting ministry owns the event.
Trustees: facility concerns with the kitchen that exceed the team's ability are escalated to the Trustees.

9. Resources

Budget lines: the Hospitality and Coffee Hour budgets, administered by the Deacon Chair (Purchasing Policy). Facilities needs are coordinated with the Trustees. Event scheduling and volunteer requests run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive and serving well. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the deacons each August.

Guests and members alike report being welcomed and known, not merely fed.
The church's gatherings are hosted without the same few hands carrying every one.
The kitchen stays clean, stocked, and ready to Board of Health standards.
Families who grieve are cared for promptly when a collation is needed.
The team recruits and mobilizes the wider body rather than absorbing every task itself.

11. Review and approval

Commissioned by: Deacon Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.2 (service ministries under the deacons); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard; The Lord's Day Gathering and the Sunday Support Teams.
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map; Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "22 — Hospitality Team Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Purchasing Policy (Hospitality and Coffee Hour budgets, Deacon Chair).
Prior Hospitality Team Charter draft (v3, 2026-04-22), substance inherited and upgraded; Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

Nursery Team Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Nursery Team Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

The youngest disciples are cared for so the whole family can worship.

The care of an infant is not a service the church tolerates; it is how the church loves its families and guards its little ones. This team keeps the youngest safe and loved, so that parents can sit under the Word with quiet hearts.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Deacons (Bylaws Art. II §B 1.c.2, service ministries under the deacons). Program oversight of the Nursery is a deacon charge; this is a deacon service team. The Child Safety Policy itself is owned and overseen by the Servants Council, which holds the church's policies; the Deacons are responsible for ensuring that policy is managed and applied properly across the church's children's ministry, this team included. Day-to-day point person: Deacon Chair. Every team has a home; this team works first with the deacons.

2. Purpose

This team exists to provide safe, loving care for infants and toddlers during Sunday worship and special meetings, so that the youngest are nurtured and their parents are freed to worship. The care is practical, but it is not merely practical: it is the church loving its families and guarding the children the Lord has given.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves The Lord's Day Gathering (System 01) as one of the Sunday Support Teams, and serves the church's care of families.

4. The Commission

The deacons commission this team to provide safe and loving care for infants and toddlers, roughly ages one month to four years, during Sunday worship and special meetings, on a steady weekly rhythm. The work has three parts. First, care: receive, comfort, and tend the youngest children in a clean and safe room, with coverage about twenty minutes before worship and fifteen minutes after. Second, readiness: prepare the nursery with age-appropriate, God-honoring supplies, toys, and books, and respond to Planning Center scheduling requests in good time. Third, safety: keep every worker screened and trained to the church's child-safety standard before they serve. The team recruits and schedules a roster of trained workers rather than resting the work on a few.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Safe, loving care for infants and toddlers, roughly one month to four years, during Sunday worship and special meetings.
Coverage about twenty minutes before and fifteen minutes after worship or a special event.
Preparing the nursery with age-appropriate, God-honoring supplies, toys, and books.
Responding to Planning Center scheduling requests promptly and arranging coverage when a worker cannot serve.
Resolving routine room and supply needs the team can handle.

Out of scope:

Teaching and discipleship of children old enough for the children's program. That belongs to DiscipleTown; this team hands children up as they age (see Coordination).
Setting the Child Safety Policy itself. The Servants Council owns and oversees the policy; the Deacons ensure it is properly applied; this team works inside it (see note below).
Building and facility matters beyond the room's cleanliness and supplies, which are escalated.

6. Scale

Shape: a permanent team built on a roster of trained, screened workers scheduled across the year, drawing commitment categories from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The team carries a steady weekly need; it recruits and trains a wide enough roster that the rotation does not fall on the same few hands.

7. Key responsibilities

Provide safe, loving care for infants and toddlers during Sunday worship and special meetings.
Prepare the nursery with age-appropriate, God-honoring supplies, toys, and books.
Keep the room clean and safe and resolve routine needs.
Respond to Planning Center scheduling requests promptly and cover gaps.
Keep every worker screened and trained to the church's child-safety standard before serving.
Communicate with parents about their child's care, and with the deacons on systems, supplies, and needs.

8. Coordination

DiscipleTown (Elders): the handoff as children age up out of the nursery into the children's program.
Parents: communication about a child's care, comfort, and any needs during the service.
Deacons: program oversight of this service team, the proper application of the Child Safety Policy, supplies, and systems. The Child Safety Policy itself is owned by the Servants Council; the Deacons ensure it is properly applied here.

9. Resources

Budget line: the Nursery Fund, administered by the Deacon Chair (Purchasing Policy). Facilities needs are coordinated with the Trustees. Scheduling and volunteer requests run through Planning Center.

Wise requirements (per the Volunteer Chapter, named not duplicated): every nursery worker completes a CORI background check and the church's child-safety training before serving. The full requirement is held in the Volunteer Chapter; this charter names it as a non-negotiable condition of service.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive and serving well. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the deacons each August.

Children are received and cared for safely, and parents trust the room.
Every serving worker is screened and trained before they serve, without exception.
The nursery is clean, stocked, and ready each week.
The schedule is covered without the same few carrying every Sunday.
Children are handed up to DiscipleTown smoothly as they age.

11. Review and approval

Commissioned by: Deacon Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.2 (service ministries under the deacons); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters). The Child Safety Policy (Bylaws Policy Page viii) is owned and overseen by the Servants Council; the Deacons ensure it is managed and applied properly across children's ministry. The bylaw line naming the Deacons in connection with child protection refers to this application-and-management role.
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard; The Lord's Day Gathering and the Sunday Support Teams.
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map; Volunteer Chapter (CORI check and child-safety training requirements).
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "25 — Nursery Team Leader."
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Purchasing Policy (Nursery Fund, Deacon Chair).
Prior Nursery Team Charter draft (Draft 3, 2026-04-22), substance inherited and upgraded; Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

First Impressions Team Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

First Impressions Team Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

The front door is a doorway into the body, not just into the building.

A guest is welcomed at the door, but the welcome is not finished there. This team opens the door warmly and walks the guest the whole way in, from the first hello to a place in the life of the church.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Elders. Day-to-day point person: Senior Pastor. Every team has a home; this team works first with the elders. First Impressions is under the elders because of its essential role in discipleship and assimilation, which is clearly elder oversight.

2. Purpose

This team exists to welcome guests at the Lord's Day gathering and to walk them into the life of the church. It carries both the warmth of the first welcome and the patient work of assimilation, so that a visitor is not merely greeted but is helped toward belonging, membership, and a place in the body.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves The Lord's Day Gathering (System 01) at the front door, and serves Membership and Shepherding Care as the church's assimilation pathway. It is the threshold where the two meet.

4. The Commission

The elders commission this team to welcome guests at the gathering and to assimilate them into the life of the church, on the steady weekly rhythm of the Lord's Day. The work has three parts. First, welcome: staff greeters and ushers each Sunday so that every guest is met, oriented, and helped to feel expected rather than noticed. Second, identify and follow up: build and run the systems that identify first-time guests, gather their information, and follow up promptly and warmly in the days after. Third, assimilate: coordinate welcome materials and new-member orientation, walking guests along the path from visitor toward membership and belonging. The team leader leads the weekly pre-service huddle that readies the Sunday welcome.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Staffing and training greeters and ushers for the Lord's Day gathering.
Identifying and tracking first-time guests and following up with them promptly.
Coordinating welcome materials and new-member orientation as part of the assimilation pathway.
Leading the weekly pre-service huddle that readies the Sunday welcome.

Out of scope:

The fellowship table, food, and coffee hour. That belongs to Hospitality, which carries the fellowship side of the Sunday welcome.
Direct gospel witness and the evangelistic outreach itself. That belongs to Evangelism; this team hands new believers and gospel contacts into and receives them from that work (see Coordination).
The long-term discipleship curriculum and the full membership process beyond orientation. That belongs to EQUIP Discipleship and the Baptism team; this team walks guests to the threshold and hands them in.

6. Scale

Shape: a permanent team built on a roster of greeters and ushers scheduled each Sunday, expanding for special services, drawing commitment categories from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The team recruits and trains a wide enough roster that the weekly welcome does not rest on the same few.

7. Key responsibilities

Welcome, orient, and seat guests each Lord's Day through trained greeters and ushers.
Run the systems that identify first-time guests and follow up with them promptly and warmly.
Coordinate welcome materials and new-member orientation.
Lead the weekly pre-service huddle that readies the Sunday welcome.
Hand new believers and gospel contacts along the assimilation pathway, and receive them from Evangelism.
Communicate with the elders on plans, guest feedback, and needs.

8. Coordination

Hospitality (Deacons): partners on the Sunday welcome. First Impressions carries the welcome at the door; Hospitality carries the fellowship table that follows.
Evangelism (Elders): the handoff of new believers and gospel contacts. First Impressions receives contacts the team meets at the gathering and hands new believers into follow-up; Evangelism hands its own contacts in for the Sunday welcome and connection.
Baptism and EQUIP Discipleship (Elders): the assimilation pathway. First Impressions walks the guest to the threshold of membership and the ordinances and hands them into ongoing discipleship and the membership process.

9. Resources

Budget line: none specifically named; the team coordinates needs through the elders and with sibling teams. Facilities needs are coordinated with the Trustees. Scheduling and volunteer requests run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive and serving well, not a headcount scoreboard. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the elders each August.

First-time guests are met and oriented, and report being welcomed rather than overlooked.
Guests are identified and followed up promptly, with few falling through.
The path from visitor toward membership is walked, not merely opened, with handoffs to discipleship landing.
The weekly welcome is staffed and the huddle runs without resting on the same few hands.

11. Review and approval

Standing charter, reviewed annually at the August Leadership Summit. Re-ratified by the Servants Council on material change. Escalation beyond the team's or elders' authority follows the Decision-Making Framework (System 09). Leadership succession follows the Leadership Handoff Guidelines (System 12). Review note for Anton: First Impressions is settled under the Elders because of its essential role in discipleship and assimilation, which is clearly elder oversight. Pending change: a proposal is going to the Servants Council on July 11, 2026 to move Sanctuary Preparation into the First Impressions Team. If that proposal is approved, this charter expands to absorb sanctuary preparation, and the Sanctuary Team Charter retires into it.

Commissioned by: Elder Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 1.c.2 (assimilation under the elders); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard; The Lord's Day Gathering and Membership and Shepherding Care.
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map (table names Elders; summary prose raises the Deacon question); Volunteer Chapter (the team leader leads the weekly pre-service huddle; huddle guide held there, not reproduced).
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity, "23 — First Impressions Ministry Leader" (Accountable To: Board of Elders).
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Evangelism Team Charter (assimilation handoff boundary); Team Charter Standard, this folder.

Team Charters

Sanctuary Team Charter

MAYFLOWER CHURCH

Sanctuary Team Charter

Streamline System 06 — Team Charters

Governing Principle

The room is made ready so the people can meet with God.

A prepared room preaches nothing of itself, but a cluttered or careless one distracts from the One who is worshiped. This team readies the space week by week so that nothing in the room competes with the worship offered in it.

1. Oversight (the home)

Overseeing board: Deacons (Sanctuary preparation is named under deacon oversight, Bylaws Art. II §B 2.c). Day-to-day point person: Deacon Chair. Every team has a home; this team works first with the deacons.

2. Purpose

This team exists to prepare the sanctuary and foyer for worship each week so the space is attractive, uncluttered, and inviting to those who gather and to those who visit. The work is plain, but it serves the gathered worship of God's people and the welcome of the stranger who comes through the door.

3. Priority-ministry link

This team serves The Lord's Day Gathering (System 01) as one of the Sunday Support Teams.

4. The Commission

The deacons commission this team to ready the sanctuary and foyer for worship each week, and to keep watch over how the worship space appears to those who visit. The work has two parts. First, prepare: make the sanctuary and foyer attractive, uncluttered, and inviting for worship each week, responding to Planning Center scheduling requests in good time. Second, see with a visitor's eyes: periodically assess how the sanctuary, foyer, and restrooms appear to a first-time guest, and put right what the team can. Where a concern is a building or facility matter beyond the team's reach, the team escalates it to the Trustees rather than leaving it or carrying it alone.

5. In scope / Out of scope

In scope:

Preparing the sanctuary and foyer for worship each week so the space is attractive, uncluttered, and inviting.
Keeping the foyer welcoming to visitors.
Periodically assessing how the sanctuary, foyer, and restrooms appear to a first-time guest.
Responding to Planning Center scheduling requests promptly and arranging coverage when a member cannot serve.
Resolving routine room needs the team can handle.

Out of scope:

Building repairs, equipment, cleaning contracts, and facility systems. Those are the Trustees' charge; the team prepares the room and escalates facility concerns.
The welcome at the door and guest connection. That belongs to First Impressions; this team readies the room they welcome people into.
The fellowship table and food. That belongs to Hospitality.

6. Scale

Shape: a small permanent team carrying a steady weekly rhythm, drawing commitment categories from the Volunteer Chapter (System 06). The team recruits and schedules enough hands that the weekly preparation does not rest on a few.

7. Key responsibilities

Prepare the sanctuary and foyer for worship each week.
Keep the foyer attractive and inviting to visitors.
Periodically assess how the sanctuary, foyer, and restrooms appear to a first-time guest.
Respond to Planning Center scheduling requests promptly and cover gaps.
Resolve routine room needs; escalate facility concerns to the Trustees.
Communicate with the deacons on worship and special-service schedules and supplies.

8. Coordination

Hospitality and First Impressions (Deacons, Sunday support): the three serve the Lord's Day together. Sanctuary readies the room; First Impressions carries the welcome; Hospitality readies the table.
Trustees (facilities): concerns about the building, equipment, or systems that exceed the team's ability are escalated to the Trustees.

9. Resources

Budget line: supplies coordinated with the Deacons (Purchasing Policy); no separate named budget line. Facilities needs are coordinated with the Trustees. Scheduling and volunteer requests run through Planning Center.

10. Health indicators

Faithfulness-shaped signs the team is alive and serving well. The year's specific targets live in the System 11 annual goals, set with the deacons each August.

The sanctuary and foyer are ready and uncluttered each week without scramble.
A first-time guest finds the space attractive and inviting, not neglected.
Facility concerns are escalated to the Trustees promptly rather than left or absorbed.
The weekly rhythm is covered without resting on the same few hands.

11. Review and approval

Standing charter, reviewed annually at the August Leadership Summit. Re-ratified by the Servants Council on material change. Escalation beyond the team's or deacons' authority follows the Decision-Making Framework (System 09). Leadership succession follows the Leadership Handoff Guidelines (System 12). Review note for Anton: there is no System 07 position description for a Sanctuary Team Leader. This charter is built from the prior team-charter draft and the deacon-oversight reference in the bylaws, not from a leader position description. The team needs a decision: either author its own Sanctuary Team Leader position description in System 07, or fold the team's work into another Sunday Support team (Hospitality or First Impressions). Flagged for Anton. Pending change: a proposal is being brought to the Servants Council on July 11, 2026 to move Sanctuary Preparation from Deacon oversight into the First Impressions Team (Elder oversight). If that proposal is approved, this standalone charter retires and its scope is absorbed into the First Impressions Charter.

Commissioned by: Deacon Chair ____________________________ Date __________

Ratified into the operations documentation by: Servants Council ____________________________ Date __________

Sources

Mayflower Church Constitution and Bylaws, Art. II §B 2.c (sanctuary preparation under deacon oversight); Art. II §B 4.c.7 (Servants Council receives and approves Ministry Team charters).
Streamline System 01 — The Five Priority Ministries We Guard; The Lord's Day Gathering and the Sunday Support Teams.
Streamline System 06 — Team-to-Board Oversight Map; Volunteer Chapter.
Streamline System 07 — Role Clarity (no Sanctuary Team Leader position description presently exists; see review note).
Streamline System 09 — Decision-Making Framework; System 11 — Annual Goals; System 12 — Leadership Handoff Guidelines.
Prior Sanctuary Team Charter draft (2026-04-22), substance inherited and upgraded; Team Charter Standard, this folder.