I'm a big believer in churches learning to use offices, administration and administrative volutneers/staff really well. It's a great shame when a pastor does everything (and some of it badly) because he doesn't know how to organise workflow for someone else.

Even worse is when people in the church who know and expect better inthe professional lives allow this behaviour to continue in the church. Bummer.

I think it's cool to set up a church office, and even cooler to begin forming some kind of admin assistance.

Here's some advice from A J Hamilton about how a pastor might use an assistant.