Top 28 Articles for Leading Volunteers
Here are 28 articles full of tips to help you lead your children’s ministry volunteers.
Leading Volunteers: Affirmation and Encouragement
Use these 10 creative ways to thank wonderful volunteers and let them know you appreciate them!
Use these 3 devotions to encourage your volunteers in a brief team meeting or full training.
We’ve compiled 50 inexpensive volunteer affirmation ideas that you can find in your local grocery store. Simply attach a note and voilà!
If you follow these 3 P’s of volunteer affirmation, your volunteers will truly feel appreciated.
Here’s a quick and easy volunteer appreciation event you can host throughout the year to thank your amazing volunteers!
Use these 6 creative ways to affirm volunteers. You’ll find a good, better, and best option for all six!
Here are oodles of quick ideas that will help you celebrate and say thanks to your volunteers.
Gracias! Dankeschon! In any language, these ideas will help you say thank you and express your gratitude to volunteers’ hearts!
Leading Volunteers: Recruitment
Veteran children’s ministers share what really works when it comes to recruiting a great volunteer team.
In a volunteer recruiting rut? Join our conversation with veteran recruiters to discover their secrets for effective recruiting that stands the test of time!
Check out the 10 best ways to ask a volunteer to serve—from an experienced advertising director.
Recruiting volunteers can be the most difficult and discouraging area of volunteer management—if we try to do it in our time and by our plans. But in God’s time and by God’s plan, it will be done.
Do-it-yourself strategies on building an unstoppable volunteer team—straight from the Carpenter.
You worked hard to recruit an amazing team of VBS volunteers. How can you ensure they’ll want to join your VBS teams year after year?
Use these 6 ways to get more men serving in children’s ministry.
Ask children’s ministers what their top three ministry needs are, and 99.9 percent will list volunteer recruitment as one of those three needs. It’s painfully difficult to capture busy people’s affections and time for service in the church these days. So how can children’s ministers be more effective in recruiting volunteers they need?
Leading Volunteers: Training
Looking for teacher training meetings your teachers will enjoy and come back to? Use these 3 easy-to-prepare training meetings!
How to elevate your volunteers from “just helping out” to leadership roles in your ministry.
Use this fun, unusual training event to make a yearlong impact on your team of volunteers.
Are you missing the boat when with volunteer training? Leadership expert Sue Mallory says probably so and offers 5 ways to better equip your volunteers.
Here’s how to do volunteer training and leadership following in Jesus’ footsteps—regardless of your budget.
Getting volunteers to attend volunteer training can be a challenge, but one you can overcome. Your volunteers will love attending training when you follow these tips!
What can you learn about children’s ministry volunteer training from Olympic athletes? A lot more than you’d ever imagine!
Leading Volunteers: Management
Struggling with tough volunteer problems? Ask the experts who’ll give real solutions!
Letting someone go is tough. But here are 9 reasons you must fire a volunteer—and how to do it.
Uncooperative teacher or volunteer? Here’s how to know (and how) when it’s time to confront.
Can’t recruit volunteers or keep the ones you have? You’re not alone. Here’s how to avoid 6 common mistakes that cost you volunteers.
What’s causing volunteers to quit, to slip out the door of your ministry? And what can you do about it?
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