Volunteer Inventory: Just how full and fulfilled are your teams?
Take this volunteer inventory, add up your score to see how you’re doing, and take these steps to get full rosters and fulfilled volunteers.
Four Reasons People Are Not Volunteering and What To Do
“I will pay you $20 to clean the whole basement.” This is what it had come to. I was hoping that my lament about the disorder in our basement would eventually lead to one of my children volunteering. As the father of four, didn’t I know better? How could I be so delusional to think…
5 Reasons The Volunteer Accelerator is THE Game Changer for Volunteer Recruitment
And Why You Should Add It To Your List Of Volunteer Recruiting Strategies Finding the right volunteer recruiting strategies can be difficult. Raise your hand if you’ve heard – or said – something like this in the last few months: “I am having to rebuild teams from the ground up. First, my older volunteers weren’t…
Congregations Make Great Building Partners
It Starts with an Idea … … because someone, an individual or a group, has identified a need, or they’ve identified a problem in the community. And they either think or say, “Somebody ought to do something about this.” And then the wheels begin to turn. An individual has a need, a community has a…
Spring Into Your Fall!
It’s May and Spring has sprung! Flowers are pushing up through the earth, the snow has melted, and school is out soon. So, we’re all thinking about planning for the fall, right? Of course not! Many of us in ministry are doing good to keep up with the now; we’ve barely crossed the t’s and…
Getting Your Team on the Same Page
So, now you have cleaned up the mess from last year, and you’ve said ‘thank you’ to your great team of volunteers who served faithfully through the year. Now it’s time to turn your focus to the new program year that will kick off in the fall. At Ministry Architects we recommend that you finish…
Church-Wide Norms
If you are looking for the best church statistics and church budget data, you’ve come to the right place. As we’ve expanded our work over the years to guide and support whole church initiatives, we’ve identified seven different norms that are useful, when it comes to comparing your church numbers with numbers from other churches:…
Youth Ministry Norms
It can be difficult to find good youth ministry statistics. In a world where so much ministry is trial-and-error, it’s hard to imagine such a thing might even exist. But it does! Here you will find time-tested norms on everything you need to know for a healthy ministry. In youth ministry, we work with four…