General/Overview Resources
Resources that look at the 'big picture' of equipping saints for service.
Articles:
- Simple Volunteering
- About Time and Talent Surveys
- Screwtape Writes on Church Volunteerism?
- How to Assess Church Volunteerism
- How to Improve Volunteerism
- A Comparison: Recruiting and Equipping
- An Equipping Culture
- An Equipping System
- Recruiting? or Equipping?
- Tending the Flame
- The Power of Together
- Volunteers are not Free
- Conversation Starters
- Go for the Gold
- Lessons of a Book Bee
- The Chip
Bible study: Acts of the Non-Apostles -- a six-session study that looks at how people other than the Apostles were also part of God's plan in the book of Acts. Encourages people to see themselves as the continuation of the church in Acts: people empowered by God's Word, together using their gifts for His purposes.
Governance:How church governance change and volunteerism health are connected:
- An article "Governance Change . . . Volunteerism Change?"
- A PowerPoint presentation Church Governance Change . . . Volunteerism Change?" Comments for the presenter are in the Notes area.
What do You do in Your Church?" describes a 15-30 minute activity that can be done with any group of church volunteers, to expand their vision of their volunteer tasks, and to help initiate positive volunteerism change.
Conversation Starters, formatted as handout. Questions to initiate worthwhile talk on serving/volunteering, with notes on suggested uses.
Church Volunteers by Karen Kogler - a PowerPoint presentation that uses 1 Corinthians 12 to generate discussion on how seeing ourselves as the body of Christ affects the ways we work together as volunteers in the church. It is designed for use with large or small groups in congregations.
State of Volunteerism PowerPoint presentation by Karen Kogler - It is common to hear people in the church talk about the difficulty of recruiting sufficient volunteers. This presentation gives some of the reasons why this is so, and proposes a look at what can and should be done about it. Although helpful for any church audience, this presentation is primarily designed for church leaders.
Together in His Service: a set of resources (PowerPoint and PDF's) on 12 topics. The introduction is available free, and two presentation packages are available for purchase.
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