Summary: Stop trying to organize evening meetings. Instead, access the done-for-you training videos that you can quickly copy and paste into an email to your volunteers.

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Ministry reality check! No one comes to evening meetings. This is why we have provided you with a wealth of completed “Training Without the Meeting” videos you can send to your volunteer leaders’ inboxes, starting immediately. These video trainings allow you to quickly copy and paste into an email. The hardest part is clicking send.

Each “Training Without the Meeting” video comes with a prewritten synopsis and 4 engaging questions for volunteer reflection. Truly, this is a Done-For-You resource. Maybe you have used some of these videos that I created in the past. However, maybe you have forgotten that these resources exist. Maybe it is time to find another one and send it out!

Some of you, though, may not have tapped into this resource quite yet. I want to say this in a kind and yet bold way: You are missing out. This stuff has already been built. You just need to send it out. Let’s do this! Jump into the Lead Volunteers Learning Community and let’s maximize this resource and get it into your hands.

Summary: We do the work to make an easy and clear path for you to write thank yous to your volunteers.

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Thanking volunteers in personalized ways is critical. Do you know that those who are members of the Lead Volunteers community have over 50 ready-to-use postcards? You know you need to do it, WE KNOW you need to do it! Therefore, we have taken care of everything except recording YOUR handwritten and personalized appreciation to YOUR volunteers.

Listen, it has to be easy or no one will use it. Again, this is our commitment to: A Done-For-You Resource. Here is a special hint that I used for years: I would pre-print address labels for my main volunteer leaders. I had like 8 identical labels for one of my leaders. This way, I could grab one of the PRE-PRINTED postcards and grab a PRE-PRINTED address label in seconds. I did the work that often STOPPED ME from doing anything and made a clear path.

I have done all this work for YOU. This little plan allows you to whip out a quick handwritten note with as little amount of hassle as possible. DO IT. MAKE IT HAPPEN. Let’s do this thing! Join me inside the Lead Volunteers Learning Community and get THIS amazing recourse and SO MANY OTHERS. Join today.

Summary: Job descriptions don’t often get done because of other pressing ministry needs. Lead Volunteers provides dozens of written job descriptions so you can help your volunteers know what is expected of them.

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I worked at a church for over 10 years. The church had been in existence for over 25 years. However, one important thing had never been accomplished. Job Descriptions.

Some groups had a random volunteer job description here and there but NOTHING uniform and nothing that touched every area. Listen, it is harder than it looks. Legit job descriptions take thought and intentionality. Here is one reason why this important task never got completed: EVERYTHING ELSE HAD TO BE DONE. So often the urgent overtakes the important.

If you were a member of the Lead Volunteers community, you would have access to dozens and dozens of ministry job descriptions for every area in the church. Children’s ministry job descriptions – done for you. Women’s ministry job descriptions – done for you. Junior High and High School ministry job descriptions – done for you. We have provided you with Usher, Greeter, Parking Lot Attendant Job Descriptions and more.

Beyond this, since this is a 100% digital resource, this listing will continue to grow. I will be emailing members when we add more. How cool that you could receive special notifications when we produce more value and content for you as a member. These job descriptions are ready to use or modify immediately. Why start from scratch when you can allow us to jump-start the creation of actionable job descriptions NOW?

Since this has been built for you, let’s get busy making your VOLUNTEERS understand what you expect of them. Join the Lead Volunteers Learning Community today. Let’s keep rolling with this resource. Let’s get this thing into your hands.

Summary: Volunteers who have a great experience will want more of the Lord and will know that they can get more of him through serving him.

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I want to have you leverage the Lead Volunteers Resource to its fullest capacity. I want you to SQUEEZE every last drop of value so you will grow strong in the Lord’s hand. I want your volunteers to be SO GRATEFUL that you are THEIR leader. I want them to be RUINED for normal after they have served with YOU. I want you to reset what they think is normal for how someone cares for a volunteer.

Here is the thing. A comparable resource to Lead Volunteers simply does not exist. There is nothing as thorough and comprehensive that you could find. And…we built this for you. I want you to get the most out of this resource. That is why I am reaching back out to you again and again. It matters to me that you get better. Here is the thing. There is a lot on the line. When people have a crappy experience serving as a volunteer, they get stunted. It hurts them! They now are not so sure about ever signing up to volunteer again. That ain’t right. What I want is for volunteers to have such a glorious experience that they just want more of the Lord and they KNOW they can get more of Him through serving HIM.

OK. It is time to SQUEEZE more out of life. Join today the Lead Volunteers Learning Community and make another advancement in your leadership.

Summary: Beyond leadership resources to help you recruit, train and retain volunteers, we’ve provided a training module to help you see how to multiply your ministry efforts like faithful leaders in the Bible.

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The Lead Volunteers tagline is “Recruit. Train. Retain.” We built this resource to equip you to Recruit, Train and Retain Volunteers. It is that simple. That is our goal. But that’s not all.

In addition to our core teachings around Recruit, Train and Retain, we are including a FREE bonus module as well. Our bonus, “Multiply” acts as a powerful capstone course, synthesizing all your learning into the highest order ministry plan, as laid out by Jesus Himself. The “Multiply” material is akin to placing rocket fuel into your leadership tank. This bonus will take your ministry to a level you never thought possible.

I have to say, the Multiply Module is one of my favorites. Honestly, my hope through the multiply material is to help you SEE how Old and New Testament saints have been multiplying ministry for thousands of years. You are a part of a grand procession of leaders who had one goal: That the World May Know. You are not alone. And as the classic passage in Hebrews says, “You are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses.” Be encouraged.

So here is the thing: I want you to have the ENTIRE program and get better. I want you to have the Multiply Module as well as the rest…Join today. Join the Lead Volunteer Community and multiply YOUR leadership today.

Summary: This professional development resource is like a train setting on a super smooth track, waiting to take you toward a better tomorrow.

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This Lead Volunteers Course is really nothing more than a path for YOUR leadership growth. This set of professional development resources is like a train setting on a super smooth track, waiting to take you toward a better tomorrow. Here is the thing, though. If the conductor of the train (that’s you) does not personally scoop coal into the engine and get that fire going, that train ain’t going anywhere.

Let me put it this way: I diligently created this content. I was up at 5am so many mornings and pushed hard to create this massive resource. I cut through the dense forest. I blew holes in mountain sides and made tunnels. I laid the tracks. I even placed the train ONTO THE tracks for you. I did this stuff for you. But it takes us both. I built it for YOU to be able to go to go places as a leader. You just need to jump onto that train and start shoveling coal into the engine.

Yes, it takes work. Yes, it will take focus. I do my part and now I want you to do your part. Join the Lead Volunteers Learning Community and make moves together on this ride. I can personally promise you that if you join LeadVolunteers.com and carve out just 45-minutes a week for 6-months, you WILL see major growth as a leader. I want you to go back to the LeadVolunteers.com site again. I want you to poke around again. I want you to explore this thing one more time and figure out a way to make it happen. I want you to grow. You want to grow. Jump back on the site today and let’s explore this together again.

Summary: As you complete the Lead Volunteers course material, you will finally feel like you are operating your ministry in-line with how the scriptures envision it to be: with a well-equipped team.

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As you work through the Lead Volunteers material, you WILL grow. I want you to imagine a day in the not-so-distant-future. You are deeply encouraged in your progress as a leader. You are uniquely connected to others through an elite community of like-minded and motivated leaders of volunteers just like you. You no longer feel alone. You know the SKILL of how to be empathetic and a source of inspiration to your volunteers. You have experienced growth in your ministry and above all, you are finding yourself growing in your relationship with God.

As you progress through the material, you are finally feeling like you are operating your ministry in-line with how the scriptures envision it to be: with a well-equipped team. You are already on this road of leadership growth. You just need to gain access to this material. Here is how we get there: you recommit to your own growth.

Sign up and become a part of the Lead Volunteers Learning Community. Then you start to carve out time to move through more modules and keep growing. I want to invite you to join me inside the course. Let me help you shore up areas of your ministry. Make the commitment and we can start meeting together through these lessons. I can promise you, I will be there through the power of technology. The only missing ingredient is you. Let’s do this thing. Join the Lead Volunteers Learning Community today!

Summary: Not only will you be refreshed in your purpose and calling, but you will get to lead other people to discover their purpose through serving God.

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Here is what I am asking of God through this course: I want you to have a rebirth of your purpose and your calling. That sounds so refreshing to me. I made this so you could feel empowered in your calling.

Another thing I am asking God to do through the material: I want you to uncover the hidden passions of those you are leading. By and large, God’s people don’t have an understanding of who HE MADE THEM TO BE. I want YOU to be filled with wonder, all over again, as your volunteers discover who THEY were created to be. Let me help you do that. I want you to step into your deeper purpose as a leader. Your job is to build up the body to do the work of the ministry. Your job is to lead OTHER people to discover THEIR PURPOSE. You get to…you do not have to…you GET to help others find their highest joy through serving Him.

Part of that rebirth in your calling is gaining access to the Lead Volunteers material. It is time to take another run at upping your game. This material will increase your abilities. Join the Lead Volunteers Learning Community and let’s make the most of your one and only life.

Summary: Your Volunteers have needs - even the ones who seem to always be meeting the needs of your ministry. Don’t let them go overlooked.

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There is a difference between “Needy Volunteers” and “Need-Meeting Volunteers”.

Let’s start with the “Needy Volunteers”. You have them. I have them. They require more of our time and energy. Sometimes, it feels like they can take TOO MUCH of our energy. Needy Volunteers have needs, right?

Now let’s talk about that other group of volunteers, the “Need-Meeting Volunteers.” These “Need-Meeting Volunteers” seem to find ways to meet your needs and the needs of the ministry. “Need-Meeting Volunteers” are such a breath of fresh air, aren’t they? I want to stop you for just a moment. Do you realize that both “Needy Volunteers” and “Need-Meeting Volunteers” have needs? Stop and listen to this: They both have needs.

Make sure you are meeting the needs of your “Need-Meeting Volunteers” and not ONLY meeting the needs of your “Needy Volunteers”. Here is a great danger for leaders in ministry. We can overlook one group for the other. Sometimes, our “Need-Meeting Volunteers” often go unnoticed. We can take them for granted. These “Need-Meeting Volunteers” just faithfully continue to show up, meet the needs of the ministry and are wonderfully low-maintenance. This does not mean they could be viewed as maintenance-free volunteers.

EVERYONE has needs. Personally, I want to take care of the plant that produces the most fruit. The life of many leaders is consumed with the “Needy Volunteers” as those Need-Meeting Volunteers faithfully carry the load. Do not be the leader that allows all of your energy to go to those who produce the least but whine the most. We must focus upon meeting the needs of and greasing the gears of our most productive and least needy volunteers.

Who can you reach out to today and let them know how valuable they are to the team? You see, it is little tips and reminders like this one that can keep you, as a leader, focused on the right things. This is just a tiny sample of the goals and vision behind LeadVolunteeers.com. Join today.

Summary: Get organized to better manage the volume of details associated with ministry.

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The average ministry leader stays in their position around 18 months. I hope this shocks all of us. At the 18-month mark, someone is just getting started with relationship building. At that 18-month mark, the deposits of trust start to pay.  At 18-months, these leaders are finally in a position to possibly begin enjoying their job. The first 18-months of any job is just chaos. You can’t predict what’s around the corner because every corner is a brand new corner.

Why does the first 18 months tend to defeat so many leaders? What I really think prematurely kills many ministry careers is a lack of organization. A lack of organization short circuits ministry longevity. When a ministry leader is not organized, they are unable to manage the sheer volume of tasks and demands that are bombarding their inbox and their life. There is truly not enough margin for anyone to effectively carry out the duties assigned in a ministry role.

We all have super powers. Everyone of us has an individual edge on life that the next person might not have. Honestly, one of my superpowers is order and organization. When you get Lead Volunteers, you are really getting a tool to make the disorganized, organized.  I built Lead Volunteers to bring chaos into a repeatable system.

I think most ministry leaders burn out because they can’t manage the volume of details that are associated with their job. Don’t experience premature burnout. Get organized. Stop the revolving door of volunteers. Prevent your own personal ministry burn out.

Join LEADVOLUNTEERS.com today!