Volunteers
How To Effectively Train Your Volunteer Teams
It’s one thing to recruit a number of volunteers but it’s another thing to effectively train your volunteer teams. With a solid training strategy, you’ll avoid having volunteers milling around without any idea of what to do, or a high volunteer dropout rate, which then leaves you with too few people to help you out on a Sunday.
Read MoreThe Ultimate Guide to Your Portable Church Volunteer Structure
The impact of gathering the right number of volunteers for a typical Sunday morning goes beyond what meets the eye. Too many volunteers can be unproductive, while too few can be a burden. Planning your portable church volunteer structure requires consideration of several aspects, which we’ll discuss in this article.
Read More10 Tips for Keeping Your Volunteers Engaged
You have various tasks and obligations as a ministry leader. One of them is leading a group of volunteers to assist you in ministering to others so that you can reach as many people as possible for Christ. However, merely having a team isn’t enough to ensure success. You’ll need a completely invested and engaged team. How do you keep a volunteer team engaged so that you can have maximum impact?
Read MoreThe Positive Volunteer Impact of Your Portable Church
As a portable church plant, you are going to launch in a rented, secular space. Is that a blessing or a curse? The difference between a problem and an opportunity is what we do with it. Let’s explore 5 reasons a portable environment can have a positive impact on your church, particularly your volunteers.
Read MoreLaunching Strong – The Secret to Excellence and Volunteer Retention in Portable Churches
The church multisite trends are clear: growth through multiple smaller venues, financial stewardship through leasing, and reaching people in their neighborhoods.1 Yet, churches are leaving traditional facilities in favor of rented spaces that still provide for: Excellent environments for worship, children’s ministry, and community. A culture that matches the DNA of their main campus. Engaged,…
Read More5 Ways Churches Can Bless Moms on Mother’s Day
Who doesn’t love Mother’s Day? It is the one designated day when we get to pamper our moms and try to thank them for just being so awesome! And it is almost that time of year again! Did you know that Mother’s Day is the third most likely day – after Easter and Christmas –…
Read MorePrinciples of Portability – #5 Volunteers are your most valuable asset
3 surprising key learnings from 26+ years of portability! The first church plant I was a part of as a leader, I gave an outpouring of encouragement, handed out nice gifts of appreciation, and threw grand celebration meals/events. I certainly thought I was valuing the volunteer! But it wasn’t until the next plant, years later…
Read MoreAll You Need to Know About Kids Ministry Ratios
A deep dive into kids ministry ratios…How many kids to expect for your launch, how much space will you need for the kids and the number of workers/volunteers you will need to keep everything safe and functioning well. So let’s start at the beginning. How many kids should you expect to have in your kids…
Read MoreCreating the Team & Establishing the Process
The way you treat your volunteers and the way they feel about serving will greatly impact the success, discipleship, spiritual formation, community impact and long-term growth of your church. The truth is, existing in a rented space is not the glass half empty version of your church. But, your attitude and approach make all the…
Read MoreVlog: Recruiting & Retaining Portable Church Volunteers
In this vlog with special guest Rich Birch from unSeminary, he dives into how to recruit and retain portable church volunteers. Rich has been a 15 year client and friend of Portable Church Industries. He has been a part of 13 campuses with most of them being portable as so he knows a few things…
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