That’s great to hear that you are on your way! The more you disciple and develop new leaders, the more people that will be available to do things you do today. The approach is based on 2 Tim 2:2, where 1) you do, 2) you do, they watch, 3) you watch, they do, 4) they do, 5) they do, someone else watches.

Stick with it! God will guide you daily, give you the energy and direction, and do some mighty things!

I like the thought that developing additional volunteers can relieve burdens for areas of ministry that the core have. I can see that. I want this and that taken care of so I do it myself since I don’t see anyone else that will handle it with my passion or reliability. So I carry that burden.

You asked if I am developing more volunteers to help out. I guess I’d answer with a very qualified ‘yes’. I don’t think I’m very intentional about it.

thanks

Good post, thanks for sharing the link. Out of curiosity, are you developing a deeper set of volunteers in the church to offset the core leaders that are stretched too thin?

What I’ve seen is that if we develop new volunteers, over time the needs that many of our core feel burdened for go away or shift, rather than pile on.

James

P.S. Look for my post tomorrow on how to develop these new volunteers into future leaders!