UCAN founder and church consultant John Truscott has just published a new Article to his website:
A57: How to work with volunteers
A write up of John's training event on this topic, making the material available so that anyone can run an event on working with volunteers (also suitable for individual use). Including 13 hand-out sheets and covering three key areas:
1. Understanding people looks at why people do and do not volunteer both in the world and in church. We need to understand how people as people react to the concept of volunteering.
2. Mobilising disciples covers the idea of all-member ministry by investigating three approaches: church-centred, people-centred and kingdom-centred. This section then shows different approaches to fitting Christians to roles they might play.
3. Supporting workers emphasises that volunteers need to be given practical support through the church environment, printed information, a team approach and personal affirmation.
Click here for John’s latest E-letter and here for an index of Articles