Chapter 10 · 45 min
Travel Logistics and Mobility
Big idea
Moving a team on foot across a region takes planning, pace and margin. Logistics is a spiritual discipline when people are involved.
Session objectives
- ◆Audit the real cost of how your team moves and meets
- ◆Build margin into the calendar deliberately
- ◆Reduce friction that drains volunteer energy
Opening question
What are we asking people to do that is harder than it needs to be?
Discussion questions
- 1.Where does our schedule assume unlimited energy?
- 2.What logistics repeatedly break, and who absorbs the failure?
- 3.How much travel or setup time do we count as ministry time?
- 4.What could we simplify without losing anything essential?
Group exercise
Friction list
- 1Walk through one typical event from setup to cleanup
- 2Write each step and the minutes it takes
- 3Circle every step that frustrated someone last time
- 4Remove or reassign the top three
Commitment before next session
Cut one recurring logistical burden from a volunteer's plate this month.
JOI categories addressed
Stewardship & Resources
Facilitator note: open with the question, keep discussion to half the session, and end with every participant naming their commitment aloud.