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Looking After Your Volunteers

Volunteers are vital to all Christian Education programs. Not many churches have the budget to pay for staff, so recruiting and retaining volunteers is an important part of children’s ministry. In our increasingly busy society it is getting hard to find volunteers. Once you have managed to recruit some you really want to keep them with you for as long as possible. The best way to do this is to look after your volunteers really well. Continue reading

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Recruiting volunteers

Enrolling and retaining volunteers is often listed as one of the most challenging tasks for those of us running Christian Education programs. How can we find volunteers? How can we recruit enough people to ensure that we don’t end up with a few faithful individuals struggling to do everything? Unfortunately there isn’t a magic formula that solves the problem (if only) but I would like to share a few things that I have learned. Continue reading

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