Background Since the beginning, YOUR CHURCH has relied on ministry leaders to individually recruit, train, deploy, and recognize volunteers serving in their ministry areas. Much of this recruiting has been done face-to-face through Leadership Evangelism and the relationships that have developed as a result. Corporately, volunteer recruiting has been accomplished via the “big event need” (Kids’ Camp, Stretch, … [Read more...]
The Best Volunteer Scheduling Tool
A Couple Of Fundamental Truths, When It Comes To Working With Volunteers
One of the things I've done a bunch of all the way back to when I was a volunteer Tech Team Leader, is volunteer scheduling. I've done it many ways. I've used Word, Excel, and probably PowerPoint somewhere along the way to create and distribute the schedule for the weekend. Regardless of how timely I was, how much e-mail communication I did, or how many lobby conversations I had, inevitably someone (sometimes more … [Read more...]
Training And Placing Your Greatest Ministry Asset
An In-Depth Look At Chris Mavity’s E-Book "Your Volunteers: Recruit"
I’m excited about a new e-book Church Community Builder and Chris Mavity have recently released: Your Volunteers: Recruit. Chris Mavity has taken an in-depth look at volunteers in the church, essentially looking at how to better enable, empower and equip church leaders to better enable, empower and equip our greatest ministry asset – people. A couple of weeks ago I posted an article by Church Community Builder … [Read more...]
Recruiting Your Greatest Ministry Asset
An In-Depth Look At Chris Mavity’s E-Book "Your Volunteers: Recruit"
I’m going to say something that we all know: Successful churches don’t operate without a corp of volunteers. Volunteers are the boots-on-the-ground that make every facet of ministry possible because, without them, ideas and objectives would be left to wither on the vine of imagination. Volunteers take our loftiest hopes and aspirations and breathe into them an actionable reality. They’re like the fairy godmothers of … [Read more...]