Abundant Life Church of Deliverance · Ministry Leader Guide

Adding People to Your Ministry Team

A cheat sheet for team owners — one page you can print or save on your phone.

1 Add someone with a church email

Anyone with an @abundantlifecod.org address.

  1. Open Microsoft Teams → find your team on the left
  2. Click the (three dots) next to the team name
  3. Choose Add member
  4. Type their name or church email
  5. Click Add

They're in immediately. They'll see the team in their Teams app the next time they open it.

2 Add someone with a personal email

Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, etc. — anyone without a church account.

  1. Open Microsoft Teams → find your team
  2. Click the next to the team name
  3. Choose Add member
  4. Type their full personal email address (not their name)
  5. Choose Add [their email] as a guest (Teams uses the word "guest" for anyone with a personal email — that's normal)
  6. Click Add

They will receive an invitation email within a minute.

📧 What the invitee sees + what they should do

From: Microsoft Invitations <invites@microsoft.com>
You're invited to the Abundant Life Church of Deliverance organization
[Ministry Leader] has invited you to access their organization's applications. Click the button below to get started.
→ [Get Started] button

Tell them:

  1. Open the email (check spam / promotions folder if not in inbox)
  2. Click Get Started or Accept invitation
  3. If prompted, sign in with the personal email they were invited with, or create a free Microsoft account using that email
  4. Once accepted, they can access Teams at teams.microsoft.com or by installing the free Teams app on their phone
Tip: Send them a quick text or message letting them know an invite is coming so they don't delete it as spam. The email comes from invites@microsoft.com, not from you.

3 See who's on your team

  1. Click the next to the team name
  2. Choose Manage team
  3. Click the Members tab

You'll see everyone with their role — Owner or Member. Ministry members using a personal email will show a small "Guest" tag by Teams — that's just how Teams marks anyone signed in from outside the church tenant.

4 Remove someone

  1. Click the next to the team name
  2. Choose Manage teamMembers
  3. Find their name and click the × on the right
  4. Confirm

Removes them from the team, its chats, and any shared files. Please do this promptly when someone steps down from the ministry.

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