choosing the right volunteers for your youth ministry – Helping Youth Workers Build Successful Youth Ministries

Date:May 21, 2013Posted By:Paul TurnerComments:2 CommentsCategory:My Rants

The Correlation Between Chaos and Commitment

I was talking with one of our volunteers about people and why thy are’t very committed to our youth ministry. I told him “you can draw a line from the chaos in their lives to their commitment level”. The more chaotic their lives are, the less committed they are to anything else other than…

Date:March 7, 2010Posted By:Paul TurnerComments:1 CommentCategory:Volunteers

When Youth Ministry Volunteers Go Rogue

We’ve all been through it. We inherit a volunteer who you think you can work with and then you notice you can’t. Why? In my case it was about getting the volunteer to teach the curriculum given to him My standards for the teacher were simple, teach, connect with new students, show up to appropriate…