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12 Simple Ways to Re-Energize Weary Ministry Volunteers

Volunteers are human! That means they get weary, especially during the “final stretch” of serving. Here are 12 ways to re-energize your volunteers. Some seasons can leave our volunteers feeling…

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Creativity Rules: 4 Creative Exercises to Do With Your Team

4 creative exercises to do with your team that’ll help you refresh, revitalize, and reimagine your ministry Back in the old days, the most popular way to get a new…

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Value Your Volunteers — Don’t Just Appreciate Them

Valuing the people who volunteer in your ministry matters more than appreciating them. Here’s why. New to children’s ministry, I had it all together. The best curriculum, programs, policies, and…

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5 Ways to Better Equip Your Children’s Ministry Volunteers

Are you missing the boat with volunteer training? Leadership expert Sue Mallory offers five ways to better equip your volunteers. One of my greatest surprises when asked to serve at…

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7 Tips for Recruiting Volunteers We Can Learn From Jesus

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…

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31 Expert Tips for Outstanding Volunteer Management

Even if you’re conflict-adverse, you can handle coaching, discipline, and even dismissal like a pro with these expert tips for outstanding volunteer management. Volunteers are human. They get stressed, fall…

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A Solid Strategy to Keep Your Volunteers After VBS

Once the dust settles following VBS, you may worry about whether your weary volunteers will stick around. Never fear! They will continue serving when you employ a strategy for volunteer…

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What the Bible Says About Casting Your Recruiting Net

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…

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8 Critical Principles Every Person in Leadership Should Know

Much of learning seems to happen through trial and error, and that’s true of learning to be a leader. We know when something hasn’t gone well, but often we aren’t…

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4 Reasons Why Your Children’s Ministry Volunteers Quit

What’s causing your children’s ministry volunteers to quit, to slip out the door of your ministry? And what can you do about it? Children’s ministry volunteers are loving, caring people…

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3 Reasons It’s Important to Communicate With Others

Can we talk? Maybe a cat’s got your tongue, but we’re here to help. Here are three reasons it’s important to communicate with others! 1. It’s important to communicate with…

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7 Summer Staffing Solutions to Maximize Your Ministry

Great news! We scouted the best ways to get temporary summer staffing — tried and true ways to maximize all the human resources surrounding you. 7 Summer Staffing Solutions to…

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Top 10 Behind-the-Scenes Children’s Ministry Volunteer Roles

Consider recruiting these 10 behind-the-scenes volunteer roles to serve in children’s ministry at your church. When you picture “children’s ministry volunteers,” you may see teachers, worship leaders, and classroom helpers.…

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3 Ways to Make Life Easier for Your VBS Volunteers

From Group Publishing’s vacation Bible school editors, check out these 3 ways to make life easier for your VBS volunteers! We know that volunteers are vital to making VBS a…

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How to Use Network Recruiting to Staff Your Vacation Bible School

Need help recruiting for your vacation Bible school? These three tips can help! Let’s face it, the most dreaded part of vacation Bible school and almost every other children’s program…

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How to Equip Your Teen Volunteers to Take the Lead in Children’s Ministry

Looking to expand your children’s ministry volunteer team? Learn how teen volunteers can take your ministry to the next level. When kids finally graduate to a church’s junior or senior…

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10 Recruiting Mistakes to Avoid in Children’s Ministry

As a volunteer recruiter, you think you’ve done what’s necessary to win and impress. But then you discover that your words or actions sent the potential volunteer running for the…

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8 Tried and True Recruiting Secrets for Children’s Ministry

Veteran children’s ministers share what really works when it comes to recruiting a great volunteer team. What if recruiting enough capable, eager volunteers for your children’s ministry was as simple…

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7 Ways to Maximize Your Small Volunteer Team This Easter

Lacking lots of Easter volunteers this year? These seven ways to maximize a small volunteer team will help children’s ministry leaders overcome volunteer recruitment challenges and embrace new opportunities for…

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4 Ways to Build an Unstoppable Volunteer Team

Do-it-yourself strategies on building an unstoppable volunteer team—straight from the Carpenter. Have you ever wondered what ministry would be like with a dedicated and faithful volunteer team—a team filled with…

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11 Ways to Challenge Your Volunteers to Grow Their Faith

Just as Jesus’ investment in the 12 disciples resulted in future generations of disciples, your investment in your volunteer team will ensure that life-changing ministry continues to occur with the…

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12 Simple Ways to Re-Energize Weary Ministry Volunteers

Creativity Rules: 4 Creative Exercises to Do With Your Team

Value Your Volunteers — Don’t Just Appreciate Them

5 Ways to Better Equip Your Children’s Ministry Volunteers

7 Tips for Recruiting Volunteers We Can Learn From Jesus

31 Expert Tips for Outstanding Volunteer Management

A Solid Strategy to Keep Your Volunteers After VBS

What the Bible Says About Casting Your Recruiting Net

8 Critical Principles Every Person in Leadership Should Know

4 Reasons Why Your Children’s Ministry Volunteers Quit

3 Reasons It’s Important to Communicate With Others

7 Summer Staffing Solutions to Maximize Your Ministry

Top 10 Behind-the-Scenes Children’s Ministry Volunteer Roles

3 Ways to Make Life Easier for Your VBS Volunteers

How to Use Network Recruiting to Staff Your Vacation Bible School

How to Equip Your Teen Volunteers to Take the Lead in Children’s Ministry

10 Recruiting Mistakes to Avoid in Children’s Ministry

8 Tried and True Recruiting Secrets for Children’s Ministry

7 Ways to Maximize Your Small Volunteer Team This Easter

4 Ways to Build an Unstoppable Volunteer Team

11 Ways to Challenge Your Volunteers to Grow Their Faith

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