The Week-to-Week Leader

In the last post, I asked a question: “How would you do things differently if the team that is serving you this Sunday might not be around the following weekend?” I asked you to put yourself in the place of recruiting volunteers every week.

This time, I want to challenge you to adopt the mindset of treating your volunteers as if you need to earn them back every week – because you do!

How would you be a better leader if you had to recruit every volunteer in your team every week? Would you spend as much time doing stuff, or would you spend time building relationships with your team? Would you make your team’s operations as simple as possible to enable new team members to be rapidly trained?

I think many ministry leaders get complacent. They expect the same volunteers to return every week, to do the same thing they did last week. Why should they? There are lots of opportunities for them to serve within your church or elsewhere. So, why your team?

Like it or not, ministry leaders have to make things fun and exciting. While not every task is going to be that way, your volunteers need to know they are loved and wanted. This means mixing in fun stuff with the boring stuff. It also means treating them as if you treasure them above what your team does, not a cog in “the big machine called church”.

So, next time you ask a volunteer to give their time, how about considering what you should do to make sure that you are a week-to-week leader?

Want to prevent losing your volunteers? Then get a copy of the Handle With Care eBook and find out how you can become a more people-centered leader that does exactly that!

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