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Profiles

A Culture of Serving: Immanuel, Macomb, MI

A Modern Parable of the Talents

A Smokin' Ministry Fair

How to . . .

About Time and Talent Surveys

DO Something with that Interesting Article

Helping New Members Serve

Profiles

How Does a Garden Grow?

How to . . .

How to Assess Church Volunteerism

How to Be the Boss

How to Delegate

How to Discourage your Church's Volunteers

How to Do Job Descriptions

How to Eat an Elephant

How to Fire a Church Volunteer

How to Help New Members Serve

How to Improve Volunteerism

How to Recruit Church Volunteers

Hungry for Relationships

Profiles

Inviting EVERYONE to serve

How to . . .

Lord, What are You Calling Me to Do?

Ministry Fair: Getting Connected

No Train, No Gain: How to Train Volunteers

Profiles

Our Father Lutheran: A Commitment

Our Father Lutheran: Margaret's Story

Our Father Lutheran: The Process

How to . . .

Protecting People and Ministry

Recruiting Tips

Remember Middle Management

Simple Volunteering

Profiles

St. Peter Lutheran, Arlington Hts, IL: Beginnings

How to . . .

Surviving as a Team Leader

The Equipping Sunday School Teacher

When My Volunteer is Smarter than Me

When Parents Volunteer

Equipping Basics

A Comparison: Recruiting and Equipping

An Equipping Culture

An Equipping System

Encouragement & Motivation

Acts of the Non-Apostles

Also Called

Christmas Gifts

Goals Get Us Going

In Sickness and In Health

Love Shows

Mary the Servant

Recruiting? or Equipping?

Screwtape Writes on Church Volunteers?

Stories: God's, Mine, Yours and Others'

Tending the Flame

The Power of Together

The Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership

Volunteers Are Not Free

Miscellaneous

A Good Good-bye (exit interviews)

Conversation Starters

Do You Know What You're Doing?!

Go for the Gold

Governance Change . . . Volunteerism Change?

Lessons of a Book Bee

Sacred and Secular Volunteering

The Chip (ministry conversations)

Volunteer Ministry Entrepreneurship

Volunteering as We Age

When Dreams Should Die