Comments for VolunteerCentered http://www.volunteercentered.com Volunteer leadership, management, and recruiting for church ministries and non-profits Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:46:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Leadership Essentials: Increase Your Serve by Gail Bumala http://www.volunteercentered.com/2010/06/16/leadership-essentials-increase-your-serve/comment-page-1/#comment-5183 Gail Bumala Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:46:07 +0000 http://www.volunteercentered.com/?p=810#comment-5183 Our food based ministry, the "Food Fairies," received a plea for churches to help with aps in the budget of the HIV Day Center, run by the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon. The plea was for local churches to provide for the Friday lunches at the Day Center, saving it about $4000 a year. We eventually got to where we serve Friday lunch once a month. The clients at the center look forward to the first Friday, when we will appear with our lunches. Not long after we started our monthly lunches, five of the clients from the Day Center began serving as volunteers at our church's weekly Loaves and Fishes lunch. They are our most faithful volunteers. Our food based ministry, the “Food Fairies,” received a plea for churches to help with aps in the budget of the HIV Day Center, run by the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon. The plea was for local churches to provide for the Friday lunches at the Day Center, saving it about $4000 a year. We eventually got to where we serve Friday lunch once a month. The clients at the center look forward to the first Friday, when we will appear with our lunches. Not long after we started our monthly lunches, five of the clients from the Day Center began serving as volunteers at our church’s weekly Loaves and Fishes lunch. They are our most faithful volunteers.

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Comment on Taking a Sabbatical by Andrew Fuqua http://www.volunteercentered.com/2010/07/15/taking-a-sabbatical/comment-page-1/#comment-5082 Andrew Fuqua Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:12:11 +0000 http://www.volunteercentered.com/?p=845#comment-5082 Thanks James. God bless. Looking forward to hearing from you in the future. Thanks James. God bless. Looking forward to hearing from you in the future.

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Comment on Taking a Sabbatical by Ernie Stevenson http://www.volunteercentered.com/2010/07/15/taking-a-sabbatical/comment-page-1/#comment-5077 Ernie Stevenson Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:56:00 +0000 http://www.volunteercentered.com/?p=845#comment-5077 A wise choice my friend. I'm not sure when I will go back to writing but I don't think it will be soon. Thank you for always reading my mind. :) A wise choice my friend. I’m not sure when I will go back to writing but I don’t think it will be soon. Thank you for always reading my mind. :)

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Comment on Taking a Sabbatical by Larry Baxter http://www.volunteercentered.com/2010/07/15/taking-a-sabbatical/comment-page-1/#comment-5074 Larry Baxter Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:34:32 +0000 http://www.volunteercentered.com/?p=845#comment-5074 James, thanks for your encouragement, great ideas and persistence over the years on this excellent blog! Enjoy a good rest, and when you feel like the Lord has got more for you to say, jump on back in. (Yay for RSS which means we won't miss when that happens!) God bless, Larry James, thanks for your encouragement, great ideas and persistence over the years on this excellent blog! Enjoy a good rest, and when you feel like the Lord has got more for you to say, jump on back in. (Yay for RSS which means we won’t miss when that happens!)

God bless,
Larry

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Comment on FREE Volunteer Management and Leadership eBook by FREE Leadership eBook: Becoming Volunteer Centered | VolunteerCentered http://www.volunteercentered.com/free-volunteer-management-and-leadership-ebook/comment-page-1/#comment-5073 FREE Leadership eBook: Becoming Volunteer Centered | VolunteerCentered Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:34:38 +0000 http://www.volunteercentered.com/?page_id=831#comment-5073 [...] the release of the latest FREE eBook from Volunteer Centered: Becoming Volunteer Centered. For those of you that have been a reader of this website for a while, this book was formally [...] [...] the release of the latest FREE eBook from Volunteer Centered: Becoming Volunteer Centered. For those of you that have been a reader of this website for a while, this book was formally [...]

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Comment on Leadership Essentials: Forward Progress by David Tonen http://www.volunteercentered.com/2010/06/21/leadership-essentials-forward-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-5066 David Tonen Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:44:46 +0000 http://www.volunteercentered.com/?p=816#comment-5066 Ah! This resonates with me too. I am learning (slowly) that I need to converse with God daily about my projects, my work, and my clients. He has been teaching me this - the more of His vision I receive, the more exciting the project is. Ah! This resonates with me too. I am learning (slowly) that I need to converse with God daily about my projects, my work, and my clients. He has been teaching me this – the more of His vision I receive, the more exciting the project is.

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Comment on Leadership Essentials: First Things First by James Higginbotham http://www.volunteercentered.com/2010/05/26/leadership-essentials-first-things-first/comment-page-1/#comment-5047 James Higginbotham Wed, 26 May 2010 13:46:39 +0000 http://www.volunteercentered.com/?p=783#comment-5047 Wow Tim, glad to hear that! I know you've mentioned some recent struggles and I'm so happy to hear that God has pulled you through! Thanks for sharing your highs and lows with me and the community! Wow Tim, glad to hear that! I know you’ve mentioned some recent struggles and I’m so happy to hear that God has pulled you through! Thanks for sharing your highs and lows with me and the community!

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Comment on Leadership Essentials: First Things First by Tim http://www.volunteercentered.com/2010/05/26/leadership-essentials-first-things-first/comment-page-1/#comment-5046 Tim Wed, 26 May 2010 13:39:01 +0000 http://www.volunteercentered.com/?p=783#comment-5046 "...much of my hesitation was related to past experience, not the foundation that God would provide joy and peace no matter the circumstance." Wow, that's exactly where I have been over the past few months. I've really been wrestling with "signing on" with the church for another season of ministry. All my reasons for wanting to walk away were based on things that happened in the past, but, through circumstances and the voices of others, I continually felt God's undeniable pull to stay put. That's what I have done. Now I must continue the hard work of daily giving everything over to God so that His work can be done. Thanks for sharing, James. “…much of my hesitation was related to past experience, not the foundation that God would provide joy and peace no matter the circumstance.”

Wow, that’s exactly where I have been over the past few months. I’ve really been wrestling with “signing on” with the church for another season of ministry. All my reasons for wanting to walk away were based on things that happened in the past, but, through circumstances and the voices of others, I continually felt God’s undeniable pull to stay put. That’s what I have done. Now I must continue the hard work of daily giving everything over to God so that His work can be done.

Thanks for sharing, James.

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Comment on How To Build A Great Powerpoint For Your Volunteers by Scot Vessell http://www.volunteercentered.com/2010/02/04/how-to-build-a-great-powerpoint-for-your-volunteers/comment-page-1/#comment-5034 Scot Vessell Wed, 12 May 2010 00:26:14 +0000 http://www.volunteercentered.com/?p=643#comment-5034 10/20/30. Numbers to live by and the key to my success (well, public speaking success anyway). Thanks for sharing. 10/20/30. Numbers to live by and the key to my success (well, public speaking success anyway). Thanks for sharing.

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Comment on Are You Out of Control? by Scot Vessell http://www.volunteercentered.com/2009/09/16/are-you-out-of-control/comment-page-1/#comment-5033 Scot Vessell Wed, 12 May 2010 00:24:10 +0000 http://www.volunteercentered.com/2009/09/16/are-you-out-of-control/#comment-5033 James, <strong>This</strong> post will <strong>ALWAYS</strong> be timely. Thank you for all you do. --Scot James,

This post will ALWAYS be timely. Thank you for all you do.

–Scot

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