I have heard many ideas on how to recruit volunteers, and tried everything from catchy inserts to booths at ministry fairs to pleading from the pulpit, and all have had marginal results. Why? They are impersonal. When Jesus wanted to recruit, what did he do? He walked up to people and asked them to follow him.
Every salesman will tell you that getting turned down is a fact of life. It is the same with volunteer recruitment. However, you don’t have to give up immediately. Over the years, I have developed these responses to the most common volunteer objections.
Awkward Silence. That is the most common response to questions asked in Sunday School classes across the country, but it doesn’t have to be that way. There are some simple discussion tips that can get the lips of the students moving and their brains processing what is being taught!
How can you improve on your normal icebreaker questions? Add popcorn and bad manners! It might be considered a twist on Chubby Bunny… you know, without all the death hazards.
What would happen if you took 36 hours to experiment with prayer practices and commune with God in silence? It was incredible. Not only did teens come away transformed, they were equipped with incredible tools to continue growing closer to God when they came home.
The first impression we get of the character of God is in the creation passages in Genesis. God is a brilliant creator! One way we experience this creator God is by trying to become more like Him.
Twister can be awkward; however, all that awkwardness will disappear once you add some ketchup and relish! The idea is really simple, and a little messy. Okay, it’s a little simple and REALLY messy. Create
Just enough water to be fun, and not enough to get sick if it’s still a little cool. Choose someone to be Marco. Blindfold Marco and give them the super-soaker. Then instruct the students that
New Year’s Resolutions are as overdone as they are easily forgotten. Try this idea to take them to the next level! Ask students to think over their past year and write a letter to themselves.
I have always enjoyed good working relationships with my pastors as a result of some key things early on in my career that helped me connect and gain the respect of my elder colleagues in ministry. Here are seven things I have discovered over the years that senior pastors want from their youth pastors.
Over my history in ministry I have listened as my youth pastor friends lamented their bad relationships with their senior pastors all the time feeling a little bad because I had such a good relationship
