One of the questions I hear a lot about volunteers is how do you recruit them? Here is what I have learned:
1. Make it personal. From my experience the most committed volunteers are ones who have personal connection to the ministry. Encourage current volunteers to recruit people they have relationships with and recruit parents of students in your youth ministry.
2. Be persistent and never stop. Every week look for new volunteers to recruit. Constantly remind current volunteers to recruit. Recruiting takes hard work!
3. Try a Sunday morning blitz. We have done this two ways: 1. Text current leaders on Sunday morning to talk to one person that day at church about serving in our student ministry. 2. Get some of your top volunteers who are super out going, give them a clipboard and have them meet and sign up people before and after your experiences to check out your youth ministry.
4. This is the most important and should be applied to the top 3 techniques, whenever recruiting someone always cast vision. Share with them the need and impact they can help make in the lives of students.
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