Volunteers
Should You “Stalk” Prospective Church Staff On Social Media?
Today’s post is a guest post by Tim Stevens, a team leader with the Vanderbloemen Search Group, and the former executive pastor at Granger Community Church, in Indiana. During his twenty years there, he helped grow the church to more than 5,000 gathering weekly in three locations and saw a worldwide impact. Facebook. Twitter. Tumblr.…
Read MoreWhen More Volunteers Create More Problems
As you might guess, our Volunteer Rocket coaching is primarily about helping churches get more volunteers. With that in mind, you may be surprised to learn there are instances when getting more volunteers can actually create more problems. The primary reason this happens is because you have a leadership shortage. If more volunteers create more…
Read MoreWhy Every Church Needs A Volunteer “Champion”
When volunteers are recruited, trained and released into ministry, there is a risk that they will still start to pull in different directions. Without someone to champion volunteer connections, volunteers can quickly become discouraged with their progress and confused about their specific roles and responsibilities. My friend Tim Stevens used to always say, “Unless it’s…
Read MoreHow to Recruit More Church Leaders With the 20% Rule
I recently addressed the challenge of not having enough volunteers in the post 3 Strategies For Church Volunteers Recruitment. However, the thought of adding more volunteers to the team may be overwhelming. You are maxed out. You are doing everything you can to keep up with your responsibilities and the people who are already on…
Read More3 Strategies For Church Volunteers Recruitment
I Don’t Have Enough Volunteers! This time of year can be quite fun as the worship services and other ministry environments fill up again. The challenge, of course, is that it takes people to minister to people. It’s right about now that the harsh reality begins to set in–we need more volunteers. When that happens,…
Read MoreRocketCast 006: How To Beat Volunteer Burnout
In the sixth episode of RocketCast, you will hear about the current trends in church volunteerism. You will also receive practical information concerning recruiting and keeping more and better volunteers. Casey Graham interviews Tony Morgan, Chief Strategic Officer and founder of The Unstuck Group. Tony is a consultant, leadership coach, and writer who helps churches…
Read MoreThree Tips For Recruiting Church Leaders
There’s a big difference between a volunteer and a leader. A volunteer in your church will move stuff around. A leader will move stuff forward. Both are important, but leaders will provide exponential growth. A lot of churches struggle with engaging, inspiring and working with volunteers. But we’re even worse when it comes to recruiting…
Read MoreFour Steps to Create Effective Church Systems
Back in 2006, I attended the Drive Conference with Andy Stanley. In my notebook, I wrote down something he said in a session about volunteer systems: Your system is perfectly designed to produce the results you’re getting. So, if you want better results, you have to improve the system. That got me thinking about…
Read More20 Leadership Quotes and Lessons From Greg Surratt
We’re at the ARC (Association of Related Churches) conference this week. Here are 20 Leadership Quotes On Ministry from Greg Surratt – Lead Pastor of SeaCoast Church and President of ARC who spoke on Longevity In Ministry. Weariness and discouragement are the occupational hazards of church planting. Staffs are wonderful and also cause a lot of…
Read MoreHow to Turn Volunteers into Leaders
A few months ago, I worked with a local church to help them overcome a specific problem. This particular church had a leadership issue. Specifically, they had a lot of people to do things but was having trouble turning volunteers into leaders. They could get a lot of people to show up to a work…
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