Bus Teams - Nashville Inner City Ministry - Nashville Inner City Ministries

BUS TEAMS

Job Descriptions Guidelines and Expectations for members of our Bus Teams are listed below. Visit our GALLERY to see pictures of our bus teams and the Learning Centers they transport students to each week. If you would like to volunteer as a Bus Team member, please contact Mark Latham at 255-1726, x17 or email Mark at marklatham@innercityministry.org.

ROUTE SUPERVISOR (One supervisor for each route)

Responsibilities include:
- Recruit and train bus captains
- Organize route and assign workers
- Assist evangelist

BUS CAPTAINS: (One Captain per bus)

This person needs to be a Team Builder who will be responsible for:
- Recruit and train bus workers
- Maintain discipline

- Support and assist the loader
- Report attendance records and progress to route supervisor
- Plan activities for your age group
- Visit with the parents and help with family records

DRIVER

- Must have a CDL and be on Nashville Inner City Ministry auto insurance.
- If not already qualified, all drivers need to have a Class B with "P" endorsement.

LOADER OR GREETER
- Stands on the ground and welcomes each child.
- Handles confrontations before the child enters the bus
- Should be mature, fair, and caring.
- Should portray a Christian parent role model.
- If it becomes necessary to temporarily ban a child from riding the bus for misbehavior

issues,this must be handled in a positive spirit.

Guidelines and suggestions for Loaders and Greeters are:

- We teach that every person is responsible for their own actions
- Avoid a zero tolerance policy
- Continued problems with a child are handled by visiting the parent with an evangelist
- Invite the parent to ride the bus with their child.
- If there is no improvement in child’s behavior the parents are informed the child will not

be allowed to ride for a specified period or until behavior is improved.
- This may take years of trials and failures.

- Use this as a good opportunity to work with and mentor teens.
- This should be a team approach
- Consider the bus to be a rolling class room.
- The bus should feel like a welcome center or counseling center and be a safe and fun

place to be each week. This is a spiritual life flight for these children.
- The Program (memory drills and Bible verses) should begin as soon as children start

to board the bus
- Bus Rules are to be reviewed each week as soon as the bus is loaded

SONG LEADER
- A good place for teens
- Have songs planed before leaving the bus lot
- Because of noise sing on the interstate
- As the bus approaches the Learning Center, sing slow songs to bring down the

energy level of the children to a teaching attitude

HELPERS
- It is good to have 4 or 5 loving Christians to sit with children and build relationships.

This is a good job for grandparents and teens.
- As buses approach the Learning Center, designate a quiet street where everyone

is focusing on noise levels
- No snacks before class

GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR BUS TEAMS

Once students are in class, this is a good time for the bus team to meet together in order to debrief and set goals for the trip home. Bus Teams should also be available to assist teachers with a difficult child. Every trip should help each child to become more like Christ.

During unloading in the community, walk all small children to the door if parents don’t meet the bus. If there is a crime in progress, avoid unloading the children at that location. USE JUDGMENT AND DISCRETION! Older children will unload most any place with few exceptions.

Each Route will take on average 3 hours.
Bus teams arrive at the bus lot at 6:15 p.m..
Busses leave for route at 6:30 p.m.
Arrive Learning Center at 7:30 p.m.
Leave Learning Center at 8:30 p.m.
Back at Bus Lot 9:15 p.m.

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