Tag: volunteers
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Top Posts of 2019 #4: “How to Help Guests Self-Identify at your Church”
Guest services is a big topic of conversation in churches. How do churches provide a great guest experience without being creepy, overbearing, or treating people like customers? After all the Church is the Body of Christ not a business. Churches are notorious for making guests feel awkward and out of place. I attended a church…
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Top Posts of 2018 #2 “5 Core Issues that will Fuel Growth in your Church”
Every church leader I meet with wants to know what they need to do to grow their churches. The majority of these leaders are well intentioned and really have a sincere desire to see people who don’t know Jesus, meet Him. I wrote this particular article at the beginning of 2018 hoping to give church…
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5 Symptoms Your Church Needs More Volunteers
I’ve never worked with a church that has said they don’t need more volunteers. But I’ve worked with a bunch of churches that have trouble getting people to volunteer and stay engaged volunteering. Through our research at the Unstuck Group we’ve discovered that the average church in America has 43% of their adults and students…
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Five Reasons People don’t Volunteer at Your Church
Do you need more preschool workers to serve children? Do you need more greeters to greet? Do you need more ushers to…ush? If so, you’re in familiar territory. I’ve never met a church that said, “You know…when it comes to volunteers, we’re good. We’ve got plenty. In fact, there’s a waiting list for the nursery.”…
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Overcomming the Fear of Moving to Multiple Worship Services
Churches are often stuck because of their systems and structures. Many churches cannot grow because they have maximized their building’s capacity and they lack the financial resources to expand. Eight common fears cause them to fixate on building a bigger building instead of adding multiple services. 1. The fear of losing the unity of the…