Summary: People are very willing to do hard things for you or the church. But don’t be the leader whose poor planning causes people to have unnecessarily disrupted lives.

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There are times as leaders when we need to rally our volunteer teams on short notice. People are very willing to do hard things for you or the church. Volunteers will put their lives on hold and drop everything to help serve the church. People will literally bleed for a worthy cause and bleed for a good leader.

People will bleed for you. However, if you go to that sacred “emergency well” over and over, you will have volunteers walking around with cuts all over their bodies. Don’t be the leader whose poor planning causes people to have unnecessarily disrupted lives.

Quarterbacks sometimes need to call audibles or last minute play changes. Sometimes we all need to make a last minute ministry change, even if it is disruptive to people’s lives. However, don’t be the Quarterback who constantly calls the audible.

Last minute changes are likely due to YOUR poor planning as a leader. Your poor planning should not become your volunteer's emergency. Stop last minute requests or demands that disrupt people's lives. If you do this too often, one day you will look behind you and no one will be following. Leaders who think they are leading but no one is following and not leading, they are simply taking a walk. Don’t be that leader.

LEADVOLUNTEERS helps you get organized, stops the revolving door of volunteers and prevents burnout. Why not let me do the heavy lifting for you. You need help and I’m here to help.

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Summary: Recruiting volunteers is a one-on-one personal ask where you share a vision.

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Years ago I was sitting at a conference at a huge church. The senior pastor of this church was giving a keynote address. I'm telling you this was a huge church. As he was speaking, I thought in my mind, “It certainly must be easy to get volunteers at a church this huge." It was not 30 seconds later when he said, "You might be thinking, it must be easy to get volunteers at the church this huge." Yup, that's exactly what I was thinking. What he shared that changed everything. He said, "it takes nothing short of a tap on the shoulder." I completely agree.

Recruiting, simply stated, is a one-on-one personal ask where you share a vision. Healthy recruiting involves choosing your words based on this person, their unique gifts and their life circumstances. That's why it takes so much time to effectively recruit. It takes time to individually cast a vision one person at a time. But I tell you the truth, it's the only approach that works.

Do you have a plan for recruiting? Honestly, I see so many leaders trying to use cute videos to gain volunteers. I see leaders begging their senior pastor to beg the congregation to serve. Year after year, they find themselves understaffed and frazzled. The fact is, "it takes nothing short of a tap on the shoulder."

Lead Volunteers is a proven pathway and resource to equip you to make that personal invitation to serve in ministry. There is a better way. We have provided you with a turnkey solution to recruit more effectively.

Join Lead Volunteers today and let us help you create YOUR proven recruiting plan.

Summary: Ministry leaders know if they do not find volunteers, it means doing it by themselves. But you can set a better path.

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Life is hard as a leader of volunteers.  You live with this painful reality that if you do not find volunteers, you will have to do it all by yourself.

You have high standards that you want to keep.  You know that if YOU have to work triple time, you’ll do it.  But who are you kidding? You DON’T HAVE TIME to work triple time!

The stress level spikes again. The toll it takes on your personal life or marriage is profound.  You know what is coming: the inevitable and impending reality of personal burnout.

The Lead Volunteers course is a preventative course. It is designed to PREVENT your burn out. It is designed to help you lead in such a way that your family does not hate YOU and hate the ministry.

There is an easier path toward leading volunteers.  We have provided that path. There is a bright path ahead and you can Lead Volunteers in a healthier and more sustainable way.  Join the Lead Volunteers Community and discover how to lead in a sustainable way.

LEADVOLUNTEERS helps you get organized, stops the revolving door of volunteers and prevents burnout.

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Summary: Develop and sense of belonging - and not just doing - among your volunteers.

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Relationships in ministry are critical. Volunteers with a high sense of “belonging" will always find more fulfillment than a volunteer who has a high sense of “doing".  It is critical to make volunteering a source of biblical community and not just duties as assigned. Never forget that Jesus sent out His disciples two-by-two.

Are there people serving in isolation in your ministry? Do you have people who are sitting across the room from one another as small group leaders and still do not know each other's names?  Volunteering should be about “belonging" not just “doing".

Lead Volunteers has created a series of proven pathways to build relationships among volunteers.  We have created a series of Done-For-You resources to help leaders know each other and have a sense of community. Let us help you cultivate belonging among your people as they serve.

Lead Volunteers helps make the hard work of ministry easier.

LEADVOLUNTEERS helps you get organized, stops the revolving door of volunteers and prevents burnout. Why not let me do the heavy lifting for you.

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Summary: We’ve all felt so desperate to fill a role that we plug in an unqualified volunteer. Develop a plan for regularly recruiting and retaining volunteers so this doesn’t happen to you.

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Have you ever recruited someone out of desperation? You are massively behind and there are some pretty big holes.  Here is the worst part.  The people you do have serving are carrying a greater load because you are short staffed.

This leads to an unrealistic load for those who have said yes. Before long, you are running the risk of losing them. If this happens, you are doubly doomed.

Now you are desperate. Yet you know, when you recruit out of desperation, you are taking an even MORE dangerous path. The reality of being SO understaffed sets in and you resort to finding a warm body.

When we feel backed into a corner, we are prone to hastily plug in an unqualified volunteer and blow past checks and balances.  You resort to finding volunteers that are not as strong in their faith and maturity as they need to be.  They succumb to issues of sin and you now have to confront them.  Been there; done that.

You hate this situation because you now have “clean up on aisle 9.”  This happened because of your hastiness in recruiting the wrong people.

Stop the madness.  You need a plan. Let’s take this proven path together. I want to invite you to join the Lead Volunteers Community and make a significant move toward your leadership future.

LEADVOLUNTEERS helps you get organized, stops the revolving door of volunteers and prevents burnout. Why not let me do the heavy lifting for you. You need help and I’m here to help.

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Summary: Venture out of your specific ministry area and make yourself known to new groups of people in your church.

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When was the last time you were caught outside the children’s ministry wing of your church? When was the last time you made an appearance in the adult Sunday school classroom, even for a moment. You need to rub shoulders with people currently NOT serving in your area. Here is a radical idea: Consider sitting in a different section of church during worship.

I know, I know, that is radical. But trust me when I say that you will be instantly exposed to an entirely new group of people. We are all creatures of habit. People typically sit in the exact same seat and row of a church for 20+ years. As a leader in the church, shake it up a bit and make the rounds. Sit somewhere new and let your presence be known.

Out of sight is typically out of mind. Stop the “ministry of invisibility” and get around some fresh faces.

Summary: As a leader of volunteers, you constantly worry about volunteer burn out. But you may find yourself in a place of burn out as ministry encroaches on your personal life and quality of life.

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Here is a reality when it comes to leading volunteers. You constantly worry about volunteers burning out. I get it. That was my biggest fear when I oversaw a team of 450 volunteers, scores of people to pull off live events and more. We work tirelessly to ensure volunteers do not experience burnout. This fear of you burning out volunteers is top of mind for you on a weekly basis.

Before long, however, your mind begins to shift from volunteer burnout. You begin to worry about YOUR OWN burn out. I have met that villain burnout. I have been away from family when I needed to be home. I have taken calls that were urgent but ultimately were less important. Ministry encroached on my personal life and my quality of life. Has this happened to you?

Do you have any ministry battle wounds and scars where ministry burnout and that feeling over-extended sought to take you out? But the show must go on and you have roles to fill. The candle is burning at both ends. Your family is being dogged out. You are either losing weight from the stress or you are adding weight from the stress. These are simply symptoms of an impending burnout.

One of my personal goals with building the Lead Volunteers course is to provide a path for sustainable ministry. This is an achievable goal. Trust me. But some of the responsibility falls on you. Betterment is not passive. Betterment is active. However, you do not need to do it alone.

Let me help you. Join the Lead Volunteers team and let’s start YOUR personal betterment as a leader of volunteers TODAY.

Summary: It is normal for ministry leaders to ask themselves “is it worth it?” as they work through their many tasks and to dos. It is worth it! But you can do the work you are called to with a healthy team working with you.

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Leading volunteers is filled with pressure. But it is not what most people would think. It’s not the pressure the volunteers put on you. It’s that this role requires THIS MANY volunteers. You begin to wonder “Is this even worth it?”

Here is the thing. I will guarantee you have asked that question. Is this truly worth this cost? It may be 11:42pm and you are the last dog standing. You are now alone picking up pieces of leftover popcorn from the event you led. Sometimes you feel alone and just are exhausted. You have that question arise again. Is this worth it?

First, let me say this directly to you. YOU ARE NORMAL. This is not abnormal. If you have felt like throwing in the towel, you are experiencing a good case of the normal. I need you to hear this! I need to hear that you are normal. For me, it is so helpful to hear I am not crazy. My mind is not the ONLY one filled with thoughts of just quitting and walking away from these hard things. Your mind is not the only one wondering if it is really worth it.

Now let me plant a different seed in your mind. It is worth it. This is the Kingdom of God. You will receive treasure untold for toiling for His purposes.

But what if there was a way to labor for the Lord in a way that does not cause you to want to throw in the towel. Why in the world would any of us be standing there alone at 11:42pm? We all need a team. I am here to help you. You do NOT have to lead alone. Part of YOUR health is having a healthy team. I want you to envision a group of people surrounding you, supporting you and they just feel like family. You deserve a team.

I want to invite you on a path toward that healthier future. Lead Volunteers is a powerful course that gives you a proven path toward building a healthy volunteer ministry team. Join the Lead Volunteers family today. Let’s do this.

Summary: You know that it is important to share the vision and the need of your ministry. But it can be so hard to accomplish that when your week is filled with innumerable ministry tasks. Use our “Done For You” resource to help!

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You know you need to share more VISION and share the need. Yet the bigger problem is that people are just checking out. Now we are left alone holding an empty piece of paper with no names and no volunteers. Sharing vision is paramount. We need to remind them why this is so important and why they are so valuable to carrying out the Kingdom mission. We need to be adding to volunteers as they are giving out.

Let’s think of a bucket with a ¼ inch hole in the bottom and water leaking out at a particular rate. So many leaders wonder why their volunteers are empty, barren and parched. The ¼ inch opening is GIVING OUT water constantly. Each week, your volunteers are being poured out. However, if you as their leader are only PUTTING IN water through an 1/8 inch hose, of course they are going to go dry! You need the amount you are pouring IN to be at least equal to what they are giving OUT.

The Lead Volunteers Course has dozens of instantly implementable resources to connect with and add value to your volunteers. This is a “Done for You” resource and not a “Do it Yourself” resource. Literally, you can print and implement. You can print off over 50 scripture cards. Place one in your pocket THIS WEEK and verbally share vision with as many people as you possibly can.

We have made it simple. We made it the way it should be! This is a “Done For You” resource. I cannot wait to provide value to YOU as you seek to provide value YOUR volunteers. We have so many ways to support the busy ministry leader that it is hard to quantify. Lead Volunteers helps make the hard work of ministry easier.

Summary: Recruiting training and retaining volunteers is at the core of your job. Volunteer leadership is both an art as well as a science. The Lead Volunteers Course teaches you strategies for effectiveness and efficiency so that you can win.

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There is a pressure that can haunt you in ministry. Recruiting training and retaining volunteers is at the core of your job. If you cannot successfully recruit and retain volunteers, you are failing at one of the central reasons you were hired. Volunteer management and volunteer leadership IS a major part of your job.

None of us want to fall short. If we do begin to fall behind, volunteers are no longer signing up and following us, one of our deeper fears might come true. You know that the senior pastor will disapprove of your inability to fulfill this critical part of your job. This is so hard, because you want to work as unto the Lord and not people. But we are human and see disappointing people as one of the worst possible outcomes. Bottom line, none of us wants to fail, especially at something as important and close to our hearts as a role in ministry.

This is why I created Lead Volunteers. Through the proven path laid out in the Lead Volunteers Course, you will begin to gain the confidence you need to lead. You will begin to gather a team of well-trained and eager leaders. Volunteer leadership is both an art as well as a science. The Lead Volunteers Course teaches you proven strategies for personal effectiveness and efficiency, so you can win in a way that does not cost you so much pain.

You need a proven plan to make ministry easier. Your family needs you to have a proven plan to make ministry easier. It is time to take back your life and learn how to recruit, train and retain volunteers in a way that works for you. Join the Lead Volunteers Community today and get your personal life back.