The Pastoral Team Leaders, and Deaf Ministry Chairperson will be involved in every decision and every meeting,  planning the events for Faith Baptist Deaf Mission.  Be sure to report to and seek advice from both teams.  

Speaker Contact person:
This person will contact speakers and arrange for them to come and preach. This person will work closely with the Deaf Ministry Chairperson  and make any arrangements for honorariums, etc. This person will be responsible for advertising the services and making sure the Deaf Community is aware of the Deaf Church service.

Opening Assembly Leader:
This person will lead the service, plan a service schedule, be sure someone is ready to lead in prayer or lead him self, welcome visitors, and announcements, introduce speakers and other duties. this person will work closely with the Deaf Ministry Chairperson concerning details about the church service.

Music Director:
This person will lead the group in songs and be responsible for special music. It is important that Music Chairperson shows a positive attitude and helps everyone to get their hearts ready for worship.

Usher Chairperson:
This person will be responsible for ushers for each service to collect the money and prayers requests. Before the service he will have ushers ready to give out prayer requests and welcome visitors. the ushers will also be watchful for any disturbance in the service that needs to be taken care of as well as people with special needs.

Covered Dish Luncheon Chairperson:
This person will be responsible for contracting people to bring  enough foods and drinks for a Crowd after  Luncheon Service. This person will be responsible to set up to serve the food and be sure we will sufficient napkins, plates, cups and etc. Table Display Chairperson can be appointed by chairperson. This person will be responsible for any displays and for any vendor tables  and Covered Dish Luncheon.

Drama Chairperson:
This person will be responsible for dramas as a part of the church service. he or she will direct the group, arrange for practice, costumes, makeup and others items needed to make the performance come alive for the Deaf  Congregation.

Christmas Party Chairperson:
We have a very large outreach to the Deaf community every year with the Christmas Party. The attendance grows each year. this person will be responsible for speakers, door prizes, decorations, food menu, room reservations, advertising, etc. This person will need a  committee to assist.

                                                                      Sunday School 

The Deaf Ministry Sunday School Class is the most important outreach that we have. it is an important time for learning, sharing, supporting and showing our faithfulness.

Sunday School Director: 
All Sunday School Class teachers will have an opportunity to reach during each year. We will follow the curriculum of our church and or the Lifeway Resources or another approved lesson source.  A teacher must be prepared spiritually, mentally, and emotionally to stand and teach God's word. This person will be responsible for ordering the new Sunday School books, materials, etc on quarterly basic and also work closely to the Adult Sunday School teacher and Children's Sunday School teacher as well.

Sunday School Secretary:
The Class Secretary is a very important job. We must be sure that everyone who attends the class is counted every Sunday. This person will be responsible for adding and deleting names from the class roll. this person will work closely with The Sunday School Director and the Outreach Director to be sure absentees as well as visitors are contacted Names and address are important as they represent souls that we are responsible for.

Prayer Chain Coordinator:
This person is responsible to get information to every one concerning all prayer requests and or praise reports, either by E-mail, Pager  or TDD. this person will work closely with class shepherds and secretary. everyone is responsible to report any prayer requests. We will collect written prayer requests in Sunday School and any other reliable source. This person will report to the class every Sunday prayer requests and important events that we need to know about. this person will report any death, hospital or sickness information the person who will be sending out cards.

Website Outreach: 
This person will need to skilled in computers enough to update and continue to keep our ministry Webpage  updated. We want the Webpage to draw people with interesting and up to date information about our Deaf Ministry. It is our only source of advertising regularly.

E-Mail Outreach:
This person will need to skilled in computers enough to update and continue  to keep our ministry  E-Mail updated. We want the E-Mail to draw people  with interesting and up to date information about our Deaf Ministry. It is our only source of advertising regularly.

ABCD:
The Alabama Baptist Conference of the Deaf (ABCD) is an important event in the Deaf Ministry and we should always be represented at the annual meetings. This person will give out the necessary applications each year within the group and encourage people  to attend the meeting and workshop.

                                                                    Education

Teachers:
The Sign Language Class teachers will need to skilled in sign language enough to communicate with the Deaf. They will need a program and schedule and try to make the classes as informative and interesting as possible.

                                                                          Finance

                                                                (Will update on this soon!!!)

                                                        Visitation and Outreach

Outreach Director:
This person will also make sure to be aware of what, where, or who our members or teachers sick or dying or absent to keep in touch with each members and Teamleaders.  This person will work very close with the Sunday School Secretary  and Sunday School Director.  This person will collect names and address of new visitors of our church in order to make a team to visit or contact. Then this person will give out names and address to visitation teams each week. The Teams will make the contact and report back to the Chairperson. The Chairperson will keep records as to who was visited and the results.

Team Leader:
The team leaders will take one or two people on a visit. The leader will know how to approach a person and explain the plan  of salvation with them. The team members will be there to assist and pray. The leader will see if there are immediate needs in the home and will report back to the Chairperson.

Team Members:
The team members will go on visits with the leader and assist and pray during the visit. All the visits will be in homes, hospitals, funeral home, etc and will be for different reasons. Sometimes a person is sick, sometime a person has been absent from Sunday School and Church, sometimes it may be a death in family. There are many reasons we need to be visiting.  A rule to remember is that you will act and speak as if Jesus were standing next to you and a member of your team. Only do and say those things you would  not be ashamed for Jesus to hear and see. He knows everything but sometimes we forget.

Public Relations Director:
Our weekly  newsletter  or E-mail is  the most widely read newsletter in Alabama. We  have responses every week from people  who have read our newsletter or E-Mail. We have heard from people who were saved, people who were encouraged, people who wanted to share a prayer request with us and even used our Bible Story to teach there Sunday School Classes. The newsletter must be positive and not prone to spread gossip. The person responsible for the newsletter and  E-Mail  will keep the ministry mailing names and addresses updated. All address changes, additions and deletions must be reported to the church office so the church records will also be up to date at all ties.

Team Leader Secretary:
The person responsible for this ministry with the Outreach Director and Sunday School Secretary to send out cards for different occasions such as birthdays, wedding anniversaries, sickness, new babies, graduation, encouragement, death, thank you , etc. This has been a very effective part of our outreach ministry. People are touched that we remembered an important date in their life. the person responsible for this ministry will keep up an up-to-date list of all important dates in the Deaf Ministry members and friends lives.

Other Activities:
Through the year we will planning different activities such as parties, baby showers,  receptions, dinners, meetings, etc. We will need a team of people to volunteer to help with all these extra events. When the events happen, the team will meet and divide the various responsibilities.