How to Determine if You Manage or Empower Your Volunteers
by Bob D’Ambrosio Do you empower volunteers to serve in ministry? Or do you manage them? For many professionally trained leaders, the ministry model has been to recruit, place, and…
by Bob D’Ambrosio Do you empower volunteers to serve in ministry? Or do you manage them? For many professionally trained leaders, the ministry model has been to recruit, place, and…
By Bob D’Ambrosio Rhonda was excited to join the Sunday school team at her church to help with the first-graders. But when she heard she was scheduled to be the…
By Bob D’Ambrosio What message from the Christmas story is most needed today in your life? Peace. Hope. Love. How about—being courageous? What may be needed most is a theme…
Is it getting harder to enlist people for ministry at your church? Are volunteers stepping down from their engagement and connection? With the busy holiday season approaching and the on-going…
by Bob D’Ambrosio “Where there is no vision, the people perish…” Proverbs 29:18 (KJV) If your vision for your ministry’s future is cloudy, you’re not alone. Many ministry leaders charge…
By Bob D’Ambrosio Thriving churches know that the secret to ministry success is having great volunteers. And churches with a large percentage of their people serving understand there are key…
by Bob D’Ambrosio Have you been at any hot church meetings lately? And I’m not talking about the HVAC system. Ministry teams can generate conflict that’s often hard to defuse.…
Wearing too many hats in your church? Avoid burnout with these 4 tips… At times it can be overwhelming to keep track of all the things you’re doing in ministry.…
by Jon Vaughan Confession time: I am a lifetime member of Weight Watchers. I love hamburgers, donuts, and pretty much anything that I’m not supposed to eat—plus I have the…
by Craig Cable We’ve all experienced the negative effects of bureaucratic red tape. It doesn’t matter whether it’s been in your church life, your professional life or your personal life;…