November 2007

I saw this and knew my son would like it. Slapstick. Pirates. Farting. How could you not like it. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fccrd8cMKNA]

I have taken a bit of time off from the blogging by accident, busyness and stuff. What have I been doing since November 20th? 1. Importance of family. – I think during the holidays we think about family even more than usual. I know I miss my parents and sisters more than usual. I am

“A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he’s always apologizing, his children are monsters.” Mignon McLaughlin

When it comes to church marketing Lifechurch.tv gets it. I received about two weeks ago a FREE book from Lifechurch.tv they are promoting Craig’s new book Going all the way. All I have to do is blog about the book. They didn’t tell me what to say. They didn’t say it had to be positive.

Thankfulness I  thought I was done with my posts about volunteers. Then I read a post from Gina McClain’s blog. She had a link to another blog about thank you notes. I started thinking that one very important ingredient I had neglected in my posts on the recruitment of volunteers is thankfulness. We need to

I talked a little about this yesterday. One that has really helped was making a volunteer board. I got this fantastic idea from a kidology report. 1. I draw on the white board all my volunteer positions 2. I fill in each square with the name of the volunteer that functions in the position represented

Know your holes and know your roles. One of the things that has always held me back was not knowing were I needed help when someone asks. One of the greatest opportunity for recruitment is Sunday morning. People see what is going on they want to get involved. You need to know your holes and

Ask vs. Beg When we need volunteers I think we tend to come across desperate. I used to do this all the time with that frazzled look in my eyes and say “can you help with the kids”. I have learned and am still learning when it comes to recruiting: 1. If you are begging

Praying Vs. Pulpit Pleading. When I first became the children’s pastor at my church everyone quit. I was faced with my first servanteerism dilemma. What is your main recruitment tool? Everybody has a fail-safe method for when you get hit with mass volunteer exodus. I had always grown up in church and had seen mostly

We are redoing our kids wing this winter. We were planning on doing it for the fall but had to push back due to budget and contract issues. In redoing the kids wing of our church we going to be adding around 60 new volunteers. So as you can imagine I have been thinking a