Articles by James Higginbotham
Just about every team has at least one creative volunteer. Are you allowing your team to be creative, not just perfect, in their execution? James Marsters, actor and musician, offered a great example of perfection …
How good are you at respecting your volunteers’ time? Are you considerate of the time they need for family, friends, work, and rest? Before you ask someone to volunteer every week, or show up for …
The volunteers in your church give their time, energy, and talent to help the local church make an impact. As church leaders, we need to ensure that we honor them appropriately:
“Be devoted to one another …
This week’s video pick is Farewell Down:
Visit their site or their MySpace page for more details and tour dates.
I’ve had a number of website recommendations and blog posts that I’ve been wanting to pass along, but each weren’t enough to justify a full post. So, here they are:
IT 2.0 from Tony Morgan
Twitter at …
Church Marketing Sucks has a great reminder for church marketers to take advantage of the slower summer demands at church to focus some efforts on outreach:
Well, it seems tons of churches just kind of chill …
I am excited to announce that a new ebook is available from Agile Ministry called Recruiting Volunteers: Church Edition. This FREE, easy-to-read eBook provides a simple approach to recruiting more volunteers for your church ministry. …
This week’s video pick is from the band Ives. They visited Calvary Austin this spring and I haven’t stopped playing their music since. Check out the Ives MySpace page for more information and tour dates. …
Your volunteers probably didn’t go to seminary. They don’t read Hebrew or Greek. They didn’t attend classes on church administration. But they still have a lot to contribute to your church.
The Apostle Paul says that …
Volunteers want things to be simple. They have little time to volunteer during the week, so complications reduce their effectiveness.
If you can’t explain what you want in a few minutes and with a simple diagram, …