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Does growing a ministry mean having lots of volunteers? While some of you may be managing large-scale ministries, the majority of us deal with ministries from one to ten volunteers. As leaders, we often desire …
Are you prepared for the next generation of your ministry? Every ministry goes through generations, when a new leader takes over after the previous one is called to something new. Whether your current generation lasts …
Church ministry leadership can be difficult: limited time, limited (or no) budget, and the constant need to recruit volunteers and resources. As a ministry leader in these circumstances, you can either lose hope or grow …
Sometimes you can just hit a brick wall. Whether it is because you lack the inhouse skills to get something done or just a problems in your ministry that you can’t seem to overcome. That’s …
I’ve seen some recent posts from church staff bloggers that talk about how managing volunteers can be difficult and often will slow down your ministry. I want to address this issue in this blog post …
I’m currently volunteering my time as a training coordinator to assist ministries in recruiting and retaining volunteers at my church. We call this the Volunteer Dept, and it was formed only two months ago. Now …
Do you remember when you first started volunteering? How did you learn to do your job? Or, was it a sink-or-swim situation?
To continue to grow your ministry, you need to recruit new volunteers. But, what …
I’ve recently been playing a web-based game called DiceWars, which is loosely based on the Risk board game. To win DiceWars, you must take ownership of all the territories on the game map by massing …
It was over a year ago that I posted about having a binder for your ministry. Since many of you are new readers and some may just want a fresh look at the idea, let’s …
It has been almost 9 months since we last talked about how to interview volunteers. Rather than reiterate what I’ve already written, I want to focus on something a little more specific: interviewing volunteers for …