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Taking Q’s: Volunteers Pt. 3: Avoiding potential & dealing w/ existing conflict
We’re taking your questions!
To Save a Life Movie – Interview with the writer
Last night I had the privilege of watching an advanced screening of the movie “To Save a Life” and interviewing the writer of the movie Jim Britts who isn’t corporate Christian filmmaker, but a youth pastor who’s still in the trenches.
Have a listen:
Practically Speaking: Volunteers
In the last 2 G-140 Podcasts, we’ve been discussing working with volunteers.
In this weeks show, I talked about the importance of helping volunteers understand their commitment and getting their signoff on those very things.
The majority of youth workers don’t have a formal process of this and it causes tons of problems down the road:
The volunteer [...]
Volunteers, Pt. 2: How to Keep Them
This week is part 2 of Paul & Nick’s thoughts on volunteers.
* What makes volunteers stick around for the long haul?
* The importance of giving ownership
* What about volunteers who don’t get it?
* Tips on how you can set your team up for success when they begin with you
* Volunteers who aren’t working out
* Evaluating volunteers
* Importance of feedback & celebration
* Eliminating your frustration with volunteers
& more…
Also check the blog because we will be adding some examples of volunteer commitment documents that we’ve used in the past.
Taking your questions for tonight’s Podcast: “Volunteers: How to Keep Them”
How can you keep from leaking volunteers?
Bonus Material: Paul talks vision
In Part 1 of the G-140 Podcast focusing on volunteers, Paul & Nick discussed the importance of vision and calling people into something rather than desperate pleas to serve. It was mentioned that Paul shared his passion and a snapshot of the point of youth ministry to the adult congregation at his church. Less than 10 days later, his youth ministry had 200 volunteers.
Here is an archive of that live talk from 2006:
Volunteers I – How to Get Them
Paul & Nick discuss recruiting volunteers including:
* Desperation recruiting vs. Vision-based recruiting
* Recruiting strategically for position
* Placing people to serve based on gifting
* Balancing young & mature volunteers
Triage while you’re in the Trenches – for youth pastors
People argue over the stats of youth workers in ministry. I know the stat used to be that youth workers last approximately 2 years before washing out.
I know in our denominational region in South Florida, youth pastors lasted about 10 months.
Youth ministry is tough – arguably the toughest job in the church.
And a lot of [...]
G-140 Youth Ministry Podcast – Rethinking Big Events, Part 2
Paul teams up with Nick Diliberto from PreteenMinistry.net in this second episode looking at Big Events.
Paul & Nick discuss:
Less is more.
Simplifying & maximizing events.
If you had 140 characters, could you drive home a message?
Tips on successfully promoting events.
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Taking Your Questions for this weekend’s show
For the next G-140 Podcast, Paul is joined by PreteenMinistry.net’s Nick Diliberto to discuss Re-Thinking Big Events Pt. 2. Nick is a longtime megachurch children’s/middle school pastor who has an amazing track record with attraction events.
More about Paul’s experience at: http://www.pauldabdoub.com/bio.html
We’ll be taking all questions related to this topic, as well as any questions [...]
