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Areas of coordination include scheduling facilities and transportation, utilizing human resources, number of events, the toll on participants and leaders, and promotion of events. Every ministry in the church will desire the most qualified and gifted leaders. Two ministries should not recruit the same person to lead two different ministries, for this can result in further conflict.

Ministers must coordinate events so that the same people are not expected to participate in events that are held simultaneously.

Youth Ministry

Youth choirs rarely achieve their full potential without healthy support of the youth minister. Typically, music and youth ministers desire intense allegiance from the people involved in their ministries. Sometimes, these allegiances cause conflict between youth choir and youth ministry when ministers fail to see that their efforts should combine for the good of the youth.

Youth ministers and music ministers must work together closely and always have the good of the youth at heart. All activities of the youth choir must be coordinated with youth ministry schedules. Weekly activities should be coordinated, and each group must stick closely with the time allotted to avoid taking time from the other group. Semester events should be coordinated so that there is not a youth lock-in the weekend before a youth choir retreat. Yearly activities should be coordinated so that the youth choir tour does not directly precede youth camp. If youth choir tours are a yearly event, these may preclude other major trips during the summer. Otherwise, youth will be made to choose and it will eventually become difficult for the ministers to support each other's events when they feel as though they have to promote their own events. Some churches alternate summer youth events such as a youth choir tour, mission trip, or other activities; and others combine events by having a youth choir mission trip.