010: Strategies to Find, Keep, and Develop More Volunteers in Your Small Church | Volunteer Series Part 1

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Mar 8, 2022

Discover the transformative shift in understanding volunteers as integral to ministry rather than mere helpers. Explore common misconceptions that lead to frustration and burnout in small churches. Learn how Jesus prioritized relationships over tasks, emphasizing care for volunteers' needs. Uncover the idea that God provides the right volunteers at the right time and the importance of aligning beliefs with His purpose. Get ready for actionable strategies on effective volunteer engagement and nurturing meaningful connections.

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INSIGHT

Wrong Beliefs Block Ministry

Many common beliefs about volunteers are wrong and limit churches' effectiveness.
Aligning beliefs with God unlocks healthier, more effective ministry.

INSIGHT

Volunteers Are The Ministry

Volunteers are not primarily people who 'do' ministry tasks; they constitute the ministry itself.
Shifting from seeing people as task-fillers to seeing them as the ministry changes how we lead and serve.

ADVICE

Be Faithful With What You Have

Reorient ministry motives from program success to abiding in Jesus and caring for people.
Stop pushing programs that lack people and instead be faithful with what God has provided now.

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In this introduction to our Volunteer Series, we’re starting at the foundation and turning the tables on how some of our beliefs about volunteers - and quite a few commonly held teachings - are misguided and lead us further from the truth of what God has for us.

Could it be possible that God has already provided all the volunteers you need to do exactly what He has for your small church today?

Join me where it all begins - getting our beliefs aligned with Him so we can move forward in all He has called us to do. All the small church strategies in the world won’t help if our hearts are off balance and we’re not aligned with Him.

Today I’ll be talking about …

A few of the common lies we’ve been taught about volunteers
How wrong beliefs hold us back from experiencing the light & easy yoke of Jesus
Jesus’ process for finding volunteers when He was on the planet
Why volunteers don’t exist to DO ministry, but they actually ARE our ministry

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