Archive for Volunteers

How to Affirm and Celebrate Our Volunteers

by Dana Welty   How do we talk about volunteering in a culture so completely different from the one the original writers of scripture addressed? Did the first-century church have teens needing community service hours? Was there an apostle who guilted them into teaching the children because there were not enough teachers for Sunday School […]

10 Practical Steps for Recruiting Volunteers

by Shannon Rains   The start of the school year typically brings a flurry of activity in our church’s education ministry. Leading education has many challenges, and recruiting is one of the most critical, yet dreaded, tasks. If I ask any team of ministers about the biggest struggle in their ministry, someone (probably the children’s […]

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