Communication: An Essential Element Of The Bus Ministry

Communication with drivers

– If you need a driver don’t wait until Saturday night to ask for one

– Tell your driver to let you know as soon as possible if they will be absent

– Sub drivers who teach Sunday School want to be back to church at 9:45

– Sub drivers don’t want to be regular drivers

– If you suspend a bus rider, let the Sunday School teacher know

– Tell the bus director before asking someone to work on your bus

– The bus director will run it by the Pastor

– No matter who it is, check with the bus director before asking people to work on your bus

– Decision list: If I, as the bus director, don’t get to it, then you go ahead and check on it

– If I forget mention something important then remind me

– If your not in the meeting then ask for a bus report

– If you can’t be there then send me a text or call me ahead of time

– If the rider rides your bus and lives on another route, pass it to the captain with that address

– When you are going to be gone, make sure you have all the addresses lined up in order of pick up for the workers who will cover your route

– Do you have a driver?

– Are your workers ready?

– The dates vacation bible school are July 11-13 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

– Let’s do our best to get the right information down with new riders

– Follow up work on decisions is frustrating without the right address

– Don’t plan anything on this weekend

– Everybody comes on this day

– All the bus routes need to have a bus board display up on anniversary Sunday

– Bus captains will be responsible to make sure their workers are there

– Bus awards will be handed out

– Bus captain of the year award

– Bus worker of the year award

– Bus riders who have attended 50 weeks from end of July 2011 to July 2012

– Do you know what riders you who have made it so far?

– We all should have records of this. There should be no guess work please

– Riders who have made it 50 weeks will receive the award

– If I were a salesman and each rider or non rider was a contract worth thousands of dollars then how would my effort be?

– If 50 years from now I look down from heaven and see my great grandkids getting passed by, it will be too late. I will just hope someone tries to reach them

– I wonder, if up in heaven parents and grandparents of bus kids, are looking down on the bus routes every Saturday could they perhaps be saying, “It is Saturday again, I hope somebody will talk to them”