I need volunteers — and then what?

February 7, 2006 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

One of the most difficult things I see for church staff is how to effectively get and utilize volunteers. This seems to be one of the most difficult areas for me and because of that I’m always trying to find ways to get better at that whole area of ministry life. One of the reads that I’ve kept hidden in my Bloglines are these posts from the Agile Ministry blog. Here are the post in their original posting order:

There’s some great stuff in all these but I’ll start with Volunteers have higher priority in my to-do list for the remainder of this week. James makes some great points that I know I some time take for granted in the fact that while this is our job, this is normally above our volunteers jobs and is them giving of their free/self/family/sleep/etc-time that they can just as easily being doing something else with. My main group of volunteers that are here each and every week actually thank me for allowing them to help and minister to the church, WOW that’s awesome! I want to work towards allowing all of my volunteers to be able to realize this amazing part and feeling serving. One of my goals is make my volunteers my highest priority when they are serving because without them my days would be much longer, but even more importantly I want them to realize the joy of sevice. That means above other staff, lunch, projects, etc if they need me I’m here to serve them to allow them to better serve our Lord.

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