Leading a team of ministry volunteers can be challenging and rewarding. How do you recruit a quality team? Train volunteers? Keep them around? Manage different personalities? Our children’s ministry experts share key insights so you can encourage, equip, understand, and care for your volunteers.
In this section, you’ll find expert advice, tips, and ideas for leading and managing the volunteers in your ministry. Perhaps you’re looking to build your volunteer team. Check out these recruiting tips, or learn how to get more men involved. Maybe you want ideas for encouraging and caring for your volunteers to let them know how much you appreciated them. Or you might find yourself in a situation where you need to fire a volunteer or deal with difficult personalities—we can help with that, too.
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Struggling with tough volunteer problems? Ask the experts who’ll give real solutions! Volunteers are the backbone of children’s ministry, the feet on the ground that get the job done. They’re…
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Give a “hearty” thank you to your children’s ministry volunteers this Valentine’s Day by constructing this creative mobile. You can even have some of your older students help! You’ll need:…
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If you’ll follow these 3 P’s of volunteer affirmation, your volunteers will truly feel appreciated. On my desk I keep a paper heart with a handwritten note from a third-grader…
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