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3 Quick and Simple Devotions to Encourage Your Volunteers

Use these three devotions to encourage your volunteers in a brief team meeting or full training. 3 Quick Devotions to Encourage Your Volunteers Devotion #1: On the Spot Encourage your…

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3 Teacher Appreciation Ideas for Your Children’s Ministry

Our ministries could not run without the help of our wonderful teacher volunteers. Here are a few ideas to help your ministry with its teacher appreciation! 3 Teacher Appreciation Ideas…

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11 Ways to Challenge Your Volunteers to Grow Their Faith

This post contains affiliate links. See bottom of post for details. Just as Jesus’ investment in the 12 disciples resulted in future generations of disciples, your investment in your…

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5 Ways to Care for Your Children’s Ministry Volunteers

We all know that eager (and reliable) volunteers can be hard to find. So once an A+ volunteer walks through your doors, you want to ensure they’ll stick around. But…

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10 Volunteer Frustrations That Are Hurting Your Ministry

Ten eye-opening things actual volunteers gripe about—and how volunteer frustrations can make your ministry better than ever. Do you know how your volunteers really feel about your children’s ministry? About…

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Ages and Stages: Lessons for Grandparents’ Day

Use these wonderful Bible activities to build relationships and engage seniors with children in your children’s ministry. These lessons are a perfect way to celebrate Grandparents’ Day! Grandparents’ Day Lessons…

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10-Minute Volunteer Devotion: Investing in a Future Harvest

Use this devotion at a meeting of all your volunteer teachers and helpers, including the “behind-the-scenes” heroes, to show just how much God appreciates everything your volunteers do for the…

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5-Step Guide to Choose the Right Background Check Provider

Here is a five-step guide to choosing the right background check provider for your church’s children’s ministry. Every year more than 3 million reports of child abuse are made in…

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Q+A: Why is it Important for Churches to Screen Volunteers?

Fewer than half of all churches screen their paid children’s ministry workers. So David Jennings talked with Melissa Towers about Group’s background checking service, Shepherd’s Watch, on why it’s so…

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Volunteer Training: Bringing Your Volunteers up to Speed

Ever wonder if you have the right person in the right volunteer role or if the volunteer understands your ministry? Here’s what you need to know to get your volunteers…

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Watch Now: Small Churches Have Big Impact

Small churches have big impact! As we read the Gospels, we see that Jesus often points to small things when explaining what God’s Kingdom is like. A widow’s small coins.…

Volunteer kneels down to assist two young girls at her Fall Fest station.

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The Ultimate, Hidden, Deepest Secret to Recruiting for Your Fall Fest!

What’s the secret to recruiting for your next fall fest? It may sound basic, but the ultimate, hidden, deepest secret to recruiting for your fall fest comes down to this:…

A man wearing a Nike hat is sitting at a table with a few other volunteers. He has his hand on his mouth and seems deep in concentration at a volunteer training.

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6 Steps to Incorporating Olympic-Style Volunteer Training

What can you learn about children’s ministry volunteer training from Olympic athletes? A lot more than you’d ever imagine! What would happen if athletes showed up at the Olympic Games…

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200 Volunteers Spill the Beans on Effective Recruiting

Effective Recruiting: Find out what captures and keeps volunteers with these exclusive survey results from Children’s Ministry Magazine. Learn from real experts on volunteering — volunteers themselves! If you oversee…

Four volunteers at a photo booth for an emoji training event. The props are a mustache, heart eyes, "ZZZ"s, and laughing crying tears.

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Emoji Volunteer Training Event Plan for a Children’s Ministry Team

Use this emoji volunteer training event to get your ministry volunteers pumped for a new year of shining Jesus’ love on kids. As a children’s minister, you’ve likely invited people…

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50 Inexpensive Volunteer Affirmation Ideas From the Grocery Store

We’ve compiled 50 inexpensive volunteer affirmation ideas that you can find in your local grocery store. Simply attach a note and voilà! What’s something we all have to do at…

A young female volunteer works with four kids at a table.

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7 Things to Do When Short on Children’s Ministry Volunteers

With these 7 things to do when short on children’s ministry volunteers, you’ll solve a volunteer crisis quickly. If you’re staring at empty rooms and you can hear the impending…

Two volunteers work to recruit a male volunteer.

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The Minute-By-Minute Volunteer Recruitment Strategy You Need

Are people running from you in the church halls again? Before you invest in a new box of Altoids, consider if your ministry recruitment techniques are responsible for the cold…

A dad is sitting in a room with his daughter and other children her age. He is a parent that was required to serve.

Volunteer Management

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Should You Require Parents to Serve in Children’s Ministry?

If parents are supposed to be their children’s primary faith influencers, why not require parents to serve in children’s ministry? Two different views; two different approaches. Yes! Require Parents to…

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The 3 P’s to Shape Your Volunteer Affirmation Ideas

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…

Tag: Volunteers

3 Quick and Simple Devotions to Encourage Your Volunteers

3 Teacher Appreciation Ideas for Your Children’s Ministry

11 Ways to Challenge Your Volunteers to Grow Their Faith

5 Ways to Care for Your Children’s Ministry Volunteers

10 Volunteer Frustrations That Are Hurting Your Ministry

Ages and Stages: Lessons for Grandparents’ Day

10-Minute Volunteer Devotion: Investing in a Future Harvest

5-Step Guide to Choose the Right Background Check Provider

Q+A: Why is it Important for Churches to Screen Volunteers?

Volunteer Training: Bringing Your Volunteers up to Speed

Watch Now: Small Churches Have Big Impact

The Ultimate, Hidden, Deepest Secret to Recruiting for Your Fall Fest!

6 Steps to Incorporating Olympic-Style Volunteer Training

200 Volunteers Spill the Beans on Effective Recruiting

Emoji Volunteer Training Event Plan for a Children’s Ministry Team

Top 10 Changes to Kidmin Post-COVID-19

50 Inexpensive Volunteer Affirmation Ideas From the Grocery Store

7 Things to Do When Short on Children’s Ministry Volunteers

The Minute-By-Minute Volunteer Recruitment Strategy You Need

Should You Require Parents to Serve in Children’s Ministry?

The 3 P’s to Shape Your Volunteer Affirmation Ideas

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