Sustainable Children's Ministry by Mark DeVries

Author:Mark DeVries
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

When Volunteers Rotate

Most children’s ministries have settled into an uneasy and complicated rotation system with their volunteers. We don’t want to wear out our volunteers, so instead of giving them a mission they can sink their teeth into, a calling that will actually change children’s lives, we ask them to help out by filling a slot once a month.

Most of us have known (and some of us have been) people who have had a calling to children’s ministry, who couldn’t imagine not being with “their kids” every Sunday. It is these kinds of people you want to build your children’s ministry on.

When it comes to recruiting great volunteers, most of us start with this assumption: Despite the fact that I think there is no more important ministry in the church than children’s ministry, I’m pretty sure no one in our church would be willing to give more than an hour and a half or so a month. Maybe the committed folks would be willing to work with kids two Sundays a month. So I won’t even ask anyone to serve every week.

When we approach the recruiting process this way, we rob people of the chance to fall in love with children’s ministry the way we have. So we always start by asking people to work with children on a weekly basis. Here’s why:

Our potential volunteers can always do less than weekly, but if we ask for once a month, there’s not much chance they’ll think we need them every week.

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