Training: Shepherding Adults

How to Help Volunteers Serve in the Right Places
Gift-based volunteerism is critical to on-going ministry success. This session will help you set up your volunteers to serve with joy and longevity. Learn what to know before a volunteer begins and what to look for when they are in place serving.

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"The Volunteer"
When Parker stops into a church office he is treated as just one more person who wants something, until he happens to mention the word "volunteer," then Ann sets off the alarm to alert everyone that there is a volunteer available. When he is finally able to get a word in, he says he was just looking for directions to the blood drive where he was going to volunteer to give blood, but now he already feels totally drained.

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Promiseland Conference breakout sessions

Promiseland has partnered with Christianity Today to create downloadable ministry resources.

· Interview and Evaluate Volunteers
· Lead a Volunteer Orientation Meeting
· Develop a Volunteer Training Program
· Grow and Care for Volunteers
· Recruit and Retain Volunteers
· Attracting First-Time Volunteers
· Coordinate Training for Sunday Morning
· Helping Volunteers Get Started
· What Every Volunteer Needs
· Find and Keep Next Gen Volunteers

Featured Shepherding Adults Resource

Children's Ministry Team Edition:
Volunteerism

As the leader of a children's ministry, one of your major challenges is to recruit, develop, and envision volunteers to lead kids in meeting Jesus and growing in relationship with him.

This resource is designed to help you, your staff, and/or key volunteers in leadership to develop a vision and plan for recruiting, inspiring, and growing a strong team of volunteers for your children's ministry.

Through sessions selected from Willow Creek Association conferences and a corresponding handout, you will be guided in discussing the transferable principles and applying them in your unique setting.

Included with this resource are:

• Six messages from WCA conferences on DVD (four sessions for leadership training, and two bonus sessions for volunteer training)
• A downloadable, reproducible handout with message outlines and discussion questions (instructions for downloading the handout are included with the DVD package)
• Key Takeaways Chart for capturing both your personal and your team's takeaways and for planning next steps.

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