Category: Volunteers

We're almost half way through September and it has been a very busy time for us!  I'm sure you can relate.  The month of August found us finishing out the summer and prepping for fall - updating our volunteer handbooks, recruiting leaders and planning for our volunteer training. At the…

The following post was originally published in June 2013 and is part of a series of summer-related posts.   Today, we'll look at recruiting volunteers. For the past few weeks we have been busy making the transition to Summer Sunday school.  Our ministry gives school-year volunteers the summer off to…

For the past several weeks, it's been all about the students who serve in our ministry. We started the month of June with a special appreciation event for our student leaders (elementary - high school aged leaders). We've never done an appreciation event just for students but we thought it…

One of our adult leaders called me last week to let me know what a fabulous job the student leader working with her was doing.  So, I wanted to acknowledge the student leader's service with a personal note.  Here's an edited version of what I wrote: Dear [Student Leader}, I…