10 Best Practices for Volunteer Management in Ministry

Description

This online article will help pastors and lay leaders build healthy volunteer systems that will support people well. The author believes that forming a healthy volunteer culture will strengthen the church and support long-term service. To congregational leaders seeking to establish or strengthen programming and outreach carried out by lay or community volunteers, this article establishes an easy-to-follow framework for creating or improving a complete strategy for recruiting, training, and managing volunteers for service programming within the congregation or in the wider community.

Features

• List of best practices for building a healthy volunteer system
• Links to additional resources embedded in the article
• Step-by-step instructions on carrying out each of the best practices

Practical Applications

• Learn to write clear role descriptions for each volunteer position within your congregation to manage volunteer duties, time commitment, and parameters to help with both recruitment and management of volunteers.
• Create a multi-channel recruitment plan for each ministry in your congregation to to maintain sufficient personnel to carry out the congregation's programming and outreach.
• Build a culture of recognition and appreciation within your volunteer ministry system to assist with retention of trained, participating volunteers.