Take the Time - and Make the Time - to Know Your Volunteers!

There are many things to think about when it comes to recruiting volunteers for your Children's Ministry, so today I want to write about one way to do this . . . take the time - and make the time - to know your volunteers.

Consider these questions . . . 

• When someone volunteers, do you make sure you smile and greet them when you see them on a Sunday or do you just go about your business?
• Do you make sure you find out some basic, yet important, information on each volunteer; such as their birthday, anniversary, make up of their family?
• Do you make sure you send a card - or at least an email - on their birthday?
• Are you sure to let them know if they have a prayer request you truly want to know so you can pray for and with them?
• Do you make time to regularly touch bases with them to see how things are going for them with their class and in their own life?

These are just a few of the basic ways to take the time and make the time to know your volunteers. And yes, doing these things will take and does take time, but it absolutely is time well spent. If someone volunteers and then is "left to their own", they very well may feel like they and their time are not valued or appreciated so when their lives get busy it is all so easy to drop volunteering from their "to-do list". Plus, I fully believe with all my heart when God sends a volunteer to you, He has entrusted part of the care for those people to you. Be sure you are excelling as a "care-taker" and take the time - and make the time - to get to know your volunteers! Check my book for more ideas on how to do this - No Cookie-Cutter Children's Ministries at this link.