InPrison CBS Leadership Roles

Community Bible Study is a servant-led ministry. The Servants Team (volunteer leadership team) is the model of shepherding, shared leadership, and accountability. The class and its leadership will reflect the example set by the Servants Team. The leadership roles in InPrison CBS include, as a minimum, a Teaching Director and an Associate Teaching Director. In addition an Administrator, and a Prayer and Worship Coordinator are most useful. Whenever possible the team also needs inmate core group facilitators, if the institution will allow. All the "outside" volunteers make up the "Servants Team" designed to seek God's will and way for the class through prayer and mutual support.

Teaching Director (TD): The role of the Teaching Director may best be summarized by saying that the Teaching Director is a teacher with a "shepherd's heart." He or she shepherds the leadership team and class; gives the "talk" or lecture at least 60% of the time; trains and leads Core Group facilitators through the Bible Study Questions; is the leader and spokesman for the class; is main liaison with the warden, chaplain and other prison officials; is the liaison with the InPrison CBS shepherding network.