by churchhires | Apr 24, 2017 | volunteers
One area of ministry that often gets overlooked is volunteer management. Depending on how close you are to executive leadership at a church, you may be quite out of touch with it all; but there is a dance, a very delicate dance that most ministry leaders do with their...
by churchhires | Nov 15, 2016 | volunteers
at christmastime, it seems people come together and elevate all the right things. One of the things that everyone loves most about Christmas is that Christmastime is all about celebrating. People are often bogged down by life and find themselves at a loss when it...
by churchhires | Aug 6, 2016 | volunteers
it’s easy to expect too much About five years ago I sat in a meeting where we discussed a failing event. It was a Sunday evening family event, that we had hosted once a month for about five years and the attendance had started to decline. People had been there and...
by churchhires | Jul 1, 2016 | volunteers
it always comes back to people Any ministry leader with a thriving ministry will tell you how important volunteers are to making each and every experience “go.” You can have hundreds or thousands of people show up to an event. You can have the best lights and...
by churchhires | Feb 3, 2016 | volunteers
One thing that I love about my ministry story is that I served as a high capacity volunteer for years before I went into ministry. Not long after I came on as a paid staff member, I was at a meeting with all the people that served in our Family Ministry. The meeting...
by churchhires | Dec 29, 2015 | volunteers
Anyone who has served in any Next Generation ministry has found themselves searching for volunteers on Friday or Saturday night for the weekend. Whether you use a large group/small group model or a Sunday school model, or even if you just offer childcare, able bodied...
