Day-in, day-out. Week-in, week-out. Month-in, month-out. What is keeping your volunteers going? What makes your volunteers stay when, unlike their day job, they have every right to leave at any time? There may be one …

Now that you are actively recruiting, you will begin to locate new volunteers that match your ministry. The next step is to integrate them into your team. Here are some suggestions:

Introduce them to the team …

Now that you are starting to recruit, you’ll begin to get some interested people to sign up. The next step is to conduct an interview to determine if the recruit is a good fit for …

If you are building your team early on, you need volunteers that have a strong walk with the Lord, a heart to serve, and some basic understanding of your ministry. I’ve seen too many ministries …

One of the patterns I’ve seen constantly in ministry is the use of the same list of people when a new volunteer is needed. You know what I mean. It usually starts off with a …

Put yourself in the shoes of a volunteer: in a 24 hour work day a volunteer will hopefully get 8 hours of sleep, work only 8 hours, and have 8 hours personal time. Of that …

Recently, Tony Dye has been asking questions related to use of volunteers, specifically for IT development purposes. I had already been planning for a month to start a series on patterns that seemed to work …