Many of us assume that everyone will want to join our volunteer team. Why not? We are doing awesome things in our [insert your team name here]! It doesn’t work this way.
The problem is that …

Jesus taught us the single most step in recruiting volunteers to minister to those in need:

I am routinely asked how to recruit new volunteers. Each time, I ask how they have been doing so far and I get varied responses, including “we ask the same people until they say ‘yes’” and “we don’t have a volunteer recruiting strategy”. Recruiting volunteers takes time, focus, and effort. Here are my top 7 steps to help make recruiting volunteers a little less painful.

Volunteer recruiting is about more than just asking people to join your team. It requires an understanding of how your leadership will translate into a healthy, vibrant team. Much of this becomes your recruiting message:
You …

Yesterday, we talked about selecting keywords for your ministry. Today, I want to emphasize selecting keywords that reflect the true intent of your ministry.
Have you ever done a Google search, found a result that looked …

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. …

Now that you have learned about the staircase method of leadership development, and have seen examples of this in action, now it is time to start taking your first steps. We want to identify three …

Have you ever thought about how many potential volunteers you could recruit tomorrow by investing some time on them today? One of the recurring patterns I have been seeing recently is the reactive nature of …

Would your volunteers say they are “Bored Now” and yawn?
I stumbled across some interesting volunteer statistics from a UK research firm:
Younger people aged 16-24, were more likely to be involved in informal volunteering than any …

In a recent podcast, a question was posed to the group about how to recruit volunteers for church ministries that require specific skills. While it can be difficult to locate volunteers with the specific skillset …