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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 [...]
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
