Building Your Volunteer Team: A 30-Day Change Project for Youth Ministry
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0830841210 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 155 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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It's also the book I wish I'd had each time I started a new youth ministry position, once again finding myself having to build a team from scratch. DeVries and Stratman write: 'Faithful ministry is almost never meant to be a do-it-yourself project. "This book is filled with wisdom and reminds youth workers, 'faithful ministry is almost never meant to be a do-it-yourself project. Mark DeVries, founder of Ministry Architects, and Nate Stratman, staff consultant for Ministry Architects, have developed an effective plan to help youth directors outline their goals and find the needed volunteers and project leaders, as well as establish a clear timetable to accomplish specific goals. If you lead a team of volunteers or wish yo
Five Stars amie Great book, very insightful. Lots of tips for building a volunteer teem.. An essential book for every minister's tool kit I was a youth pastor in some form for 13 years. For the last 7 years I have been a solo pastor of churches in Colorado and South Dakota. The last three school years I have been assisting with our youth ministry program while serving as the pastor. If I were to jump back into youth ministry again, I would grab a hold of this book and run with it, implementing the 30 day plan at some point very early in my ministry at my new church.This book is written by the fine folks at Ministry Architects, a wonderful, thoughtful, research based operation t. "Calling Partners For Youth Ministry & Beyond" according to James Matichuk. I have been apart of an effective youth ministry team. I was not the pastoral leader but a team member, so I wasn't responsible for creating and building the team, but it was great. We met together, did retreats together and did team building exercises.We called ourselves the 'Youth Support Team' (insert your favorite jock strap/bra joke here, we made them all). As the Youth Support Team (YST) we planned our weekly youth worship service, we mentored, we prayed with and for kids and planned special events. On a whole, we did effective and frui
Youth leaders Mark DeVries and Nate Stratman have heard dozens of reasons why leaders choose not to build a solid volunteer team. Do you find yourself again and again wondering what it would take to get some new volunteers onboard for your ministry? And yet does it seem that you are never able to focus your energy on recruitment? Maybe you find yourself saying things like: "Its just easier for me to do it myself." At one level, of course, this is true. DeVries and Stratman are so commited to the ideas that they offer the following guarantee: If you work this 30-day process for one to two hours a day, six days a week, for 30 days, and it does not create significant change in your ministry, Ministry Architects will gladly refund the cost of this book and offer a credit of $20 toward any downloadable resource in their online store at ymarchitects. But faithful ministry is not a do-it-yourself project. Its more than just recruitingit involves changing the culture of your ministry so that volunteers want to become involved.That's why they have developed this 30-day change approach. In these pages you will find the step-by-step support you need to actually make one of the most important changes you want to see in your ministry. You have so little to risk and everything to gain. It's time to put together that team you've be
DeVries is the author of Family-Based Youth Ministry and coauthor of The Most Important Year in a Woman's Life/The Most Important Year in a Man's Life, and he has been a contributing writer for Josh McDowell's Youth Ministry Handbook, Starting Right and Reaching a Generation for Christ. . A staff consultant with Ministry Architects,Nate also started the Restoration Project through Youth Conference Ministries and co-dreamed an intentional community for minist