Volunteers & Leadership

Been trying figure out how thank volunteers without spending money we don't have. Our budget's basically nothing. Maybe fifty bucks month if we're lucky. Can't do fancy dinners or expensive gifts like big churches. But volunteers work their butts off. Sarah shows

Mark starts helping with our 5th graders last month. Really nice guy wants help. First Sunday hand him this packet. Like fifteen pages. Volunteer handbook safety policies behavior management curriculum overview emergency procedures. Everything. Next week shows up looking like I hit him with truck. Admits didn't read

Cleaning out my phone yesterday and found this text from Jennifer. She used to help with 2nd 3rd graders couple years back. "Hey I don't think I can keep doing this anymore. Just not working out." That was it. Gone. Back then I'm like

Building a Volunteer Team Culture That Lasts So last month I'm sitting in this meeting with other kids ministry leaders and this woman starts talking about her volunteer team. How they hang out outside of church. How they cover for each other without being asked. How new people

So Sarah comes up to me after service Sunday and she's got this look. You know that look when someone's been chewing on something for weeks? "I think I need to take a break." My stomach just drops through the floor. Sarah's

Honestly don't know why anyone trusts me to train volunteers. Half the time I'm figuring it out as I go and hoping nobody notices I'm winging it. But found some stuff that actually helps instead of making people more confused. Orange Videos I Found

Had to tell a volunteer last week that kids were scared of her because she yells when they spill things. That was fun. She cried and I felt like a monster but also those kids shouldn't be terrified of craft time. These conversations are the worst part of

Getting volunteers for kids ministry is like asking people to donate a kidney. Everyone thinks kids are adorable until you ask them to spend an hour with twelve of them hopped up on animal crackers and fruit punch. Been trying to staff our children's program for years. It&

Okay so last Sunday this new volunteer walks in. Sweet lady, super eager. I'm thinking great, finally some help with the preschoolers. Five minutes later she's standing in the middle of craft chaos looking like she might cry. That's when it hit me. I