4 Ways High Impact Creates Unlimited Leverage

Leverage Leverage comes from the word “lever”. One of six simple machines, a lever creates more force permitting us to move big rocks or open stuck doors. Similarly, High Impact volunteers can multiply force in any ministry. Let’s explore four ways: 1). Uncover that a...

The One Thing Every Volunteer Needs

  I’m apprehensive; what will this church be like? Parking lot volunteers and greeters give a glance and offer, “Good morning, welcome to 1st Christian.” Each week, the same people perform their duty faithfully. Yet, why is it that I feel...

Volunteers are BACK! Six things to expect and what to do?

With many restrictions lifted, volunteers are beginning to return. As a Christian leader, what should you expect? And how should you deal with it? 1). EXPECT A MAD BREAKOUT!  Air traffic increased by 500% on Memorial Day weekend. There is a mad rush to travel, to take...

9 Ways to Engage your Volunteers – While we wait out COVID-19

An unexpected day off affords me the opportunity to catch up on things I’ve neglected, cross off overdue items on my to-do list, or do some real strategic thinking. COVID-19 has opened up far more than a day. We along with our volunteers may be trying to replace...

Appropriate Affirmation or False Flattery?

Question: Our church has an unwritten rule that we don’t recognize volunteers because it is flattery. That doesn’t “feel” right, but how do I distinguish between flattery and recognition? Answer: On the surface it may be difficult to...

Culture Change: Teaching Volunteers to Beg!

by Al Newell “Begging” for volunteers makes long term recruiting worse. Desperate pleas create diminishing returns, dulling the ears of prospects. Worse yet, “begging” cheapens the value of the ministry position itself. Consider a dad of a teenage girl placing a...