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Growing Your Ministry Through…Starting Small
November 30, 2006 – 8:50 pm | Comments Off

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 …

Growing Your Ministry Through…Letting Go
November 8, 2006 – 9:07 pm | Comments Off

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 …

Growing Your Ministry Through…Constraints
October 23, 2006 – 7:31 am | Comments Off

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 …

Growing Your Ministry Through…Issues
October 11, 2006 – 10:56 pm | Comments Off

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 …

Growing Your Ministry Through…Volunteers
October 2, 2006 – 9:39 pm | 4 Comments

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 …

Growing Your Ministry Through…Adjustments
September 25, 2006 – 10:10 pm | One Comment

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 …

Growing Your Ministry Through…Training
September 20, 2006 – 7:06 pm | One Comment

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 …

Growing Your Ministry Through…Strategy
September 12, 2006 – 8:15 pm | One Comment

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 …

Growing Your Ministry Through…Procedures
August 30, 2006 – 9:10 pm | One Comment

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 …

Growing Your Ministry Through…Interviewing
August 23, 2006 – 6:11 pm | One Comment

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 …