This paper sought to accentuate key administrative insights in Exodus 18:13-27 and how such insights could be applied in ensuring administrative leadership effectiveness in local churches. Insights gleaned from the passage could serve as a cutting-edge for biblical model of equipping ministry in the field of church administrative leadership. This paper adopts a descriptive approach, based on ideas developed from reading editorials, articles on church administration and leadership in several journals/academic sources. Also, personal experience in church work and the teaching of the course, church administration and leadership for over a decade is core in the methodology. As a contribution to this end, this paper gives a reflective study of the passage of Exodus 18:13-27 descriptively and presents the administrative insights gleaned from Jethro’s counsel to Moses such as: delegation of responsibilities, necessity of having a shared leadership, dutifulness and commitment to given tasks, accessibility and approachability as a leader; having a sense of good decision making; winning of followers’ trust, dependability and confidence; clear visibility of the work to be done; leader’s method, strategy, approach or manner of doing any work can be questioned, critiqued and evaluated; being well informed, current and connected to God, the source of authority. Other insights include, there should be no preferential treatment for some followers but equity and justice; having value for the Law/Word of God and be well versed in it. Church Pastors as administrators should be well acquainted in church policies, procedures and their church constitution. Avoidance of burn-out in ministry, the need for synergy, teamwork and having a listening ear are essential. Recruitment/enlistment of workers. And in the enlisting or recruitment of competent people/workers, there should be clear cut and well spelt out qualities or criteria for the selection or enlisting of people/workers. Separation of power, knowing one’s jurisdiction, terms of reference should be given to those assigned responsibility. Job description and delegation of duties ranging from the lowest to the highest. Giving of feedback/report; having organizational structure and management hierarchy; assumption of duty for the leaders appointed should go with implementation of job description and operating a multi-staff ministry are some other dimensions of the insights. The paper concludes that in biblical times, the idea of leadership is the idea of guiding something or someone. This means that the essence of a leader in biblical times is to motivate others into action in order to achieve a God given purpose and goal through the grace of God.