Challenges and Strategies for Volunteer Engagement in Churches

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Exploring the difficulties faced in engaging volunteers in churches, from the tendency to hire doers over leaders to the importance of empowering and equipping volunteers for ministry roles. The chapter emphasizes the need for designated leaders to champion volunteer engagement and highlights the significance of onboarding and tiering volunteers for effective leadership development.

Before the pandemic, we typically saw 45% to 50% of all adults and students serving on a volunteer team at least monthly. Our most recent data shows churches reporting only 35% are serving today.

In the first episode of this series on "Serving as Spiritual Formation," we talked about some of the most common mistakes churches make with their volunteer engagement strategy that are contributing to that shortage of volunteers. But in this second episode, we’re going to look at the structural mistakes churches make that lead to low volunteer engagement.

Tony and Amy talk about the structure of churches that engage the most volunteers in serving roles, and specifically, how this needs to be considered a spiritual formation issue.

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