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20 Ways to Promote Serving and Recruit Volunteers in Your Church

Recruiting volunteers doesn’t always come easy. So consider these 20 ways to promote serving in your church! In most churches the congregation seems to be struck by blindness when it…

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What It Takes to Recruit Seasoned Volunteers for Kidmin

Someone once asked this question on childrensministry.com: We have an older congregation and frequently hear “I taught Sunday school for 30 years, I have done my time.” How do we…

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5 Ways to Grow a Healthy Culture in Your Ministry

Here are five ways you can begin to grow a healthy culture within your church’s children’s ministry. Simply put, culture is “the way we do things around here.” A healthy…

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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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12 Ways to Develop Friendships With Kids

Mentorship studies show the power of kids having at least one Christian adult friend in their lives. Share these 12 friendship tips with your volunteers that will help kids form…

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3 Ways to Make Life Easier for Your VBS Volunteers

From Group’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 great…

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Creative Ways to Find VBS Volunteers!

Where in the world can you find VBS volunteers? When it comes to recruiting volunteers for VBS, the obvious place to start is with your regular weekly children’s ministry volunteers…

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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 (VBS)and almost every other children’s program…

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Giving Volunteers Better Than 20/20 Vision

If you want to be an effective recruiter who retains volunteers from year to year, you must give them vision for your ministry. There are two kinds of streams: one…

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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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Tips for Effective Volunteer Recruiting

In a volunteer recruiting rut? Join our conversation with veteran recruiters to discover their secrets for effective recruiting that stands the test of time! Will the kids in your ministry…

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4 Practical Tips for Building a Strong Sunday School Team

As a Sunday school leader, you want to ensure that your ministry has a solid foundation—and that includes your team. Consider these practical tips for building a strong Sunday school…

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FREE Download: Overflow Volunteer Recruiting Package

Let’s face it, recruiting volunteers is a year-round responsibility. Just when you think you’ve filled your volunteer needs, another volunteer leaves. So instead of the occasional bulletin announcement or all-call…

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6 Ways to Pray for Others When You’re Limited on Time

Feeling short on time but have a list of people to pray for? Here are six ways to pray for others when you think there’s no time. Prayer refreshes us,…

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5 Reasons People Don’t Volunteer and What You Can Do About It

Volunteering is a vital component of our churches and our nation. In fact, one in four adults volunteer. People volunteer for a number of reasons from aligning with their personal…

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10 Best Ways to Ask a Volunteer to Serve

Check out the 10 best ways to ask a volunteer to serve—based on concepts from the world of marketing and sales. You’ve scouted the best prospects for your volunteer positions,…

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Desperate for Volunteers? Here’s What NOT to Do.

Here are five things you shouldn’t do when you’re desperate for volunteers.  I know. You need more volunteers. So do I. And we always will. Building a volunteer team is…

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5 Surprising Ways to Drive Away a Volunteer

You’ve likely read the tried-and-true volunteer recruiting secrets. And all the ways to make your volunteers feel appreciated. So why is it you’re still losing volunteers? Sometimes losing your leaders…

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Where Do I Find Great Volunteers for Special Needs Classrooms?

Finding volunteers called to service in special needs ministry may be one of your most difficult tasks. In my experience, I’ve found volunteers who are a great fit through the…

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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 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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