Stop Recruiting Youth Volunteers and Start Inviting People into Your Ministry
Once I changed my mindset from recruiting to inviting, I no longer faced the preseason panic.
We are called to love and serve our volunteers as we co-labor for the gospel. Consider their care a part of your ministry.
Once I changed my mindset from recruiting to inviting, I no longer faced the preseason panic.
It’s not enough to just recruit leaders to fill a role; they need to be reminded over and over again what the goal of our ministry labor is. It’s to make disciples of students.
Volunteer leaders are not just warm bodies to make our lives easier; they are there to make an eternal deposit in the lives of teenagers with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
While we may feel tapped out, as though we have nothing to offer anymore, empty nesters are in a unique position to fill a needed place in youth ministry.
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Recently, I have had several student pastors approach me about how I train my volunteers. There are obviously many ways to train volunteers; this is by no means the final word. What follows is an explanation of how…