#3 – Start Asking People to Serve Early  One of the mistakes we make as church leaders is not allowing new people to serve. In fact, I used to think that people should wait 6 months before they started serving. What's a mistake that was!  Today we ask people to serve early. we talk about serving in our New Believers class. We encourage people who have attended 2-3 times to get involved. Why? Because people who commit to serve stick in a church. The chances of them falling through the cracks goes down considerably.  The big idea: don't wait to ask … Read More

#2 – Don't Make it a Life Sentence One of the things that gets more people involved is the knowledge that a person can change ministries without being looked down upon. In fact, at Calvary we encourage people to change ministry areas after a season of time.  I'd rather a person serving in our Children's Ministry change ministry areas rather than stop serving. Too many times, people want to change where they serve but feel they are letting someone down if they stop. So they stop serving and many times stop attending church.  From the very beginning we let people … Read More

This week I want to talk about some ideas to increase your volunteer base. If you're like every other church in America, you could always use more volunteers. I want to share some strategies for radically increasing your volunteer base.   #1 – Make it easy for people for people to serve – Every thinks they make it easy, but few do. At Calvary, if you want to start serving you simply check off the back of your connection card. That's it.  Then we call you and get you plugged in. Yes, there's an application to fill out, but it's … Read More