{"id":31393,"date":"2017-02-23T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wwv.group.com\/childrens-ministry\/?p=31393"},"modified":"2017-02-22T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:22:30","slug":"volunteer-essentials-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwv.group.com\/childrens-ministry\/blog\/lead\/volunteer-essentials-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Why These Volunteer Essentials are&#8230;Essential!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great volunteer teams consist of passionate people who have a focused vision, believe in their mission, and empower each other with their initiative and skill development. As a leader of volunteers, ask yourself and your leadership team these questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Passion<\/strong>: Are our volunteers passionate about our mission. It all starts here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus<\/strong>: Is that passion focused like a laser or unfocused like a lukewarm lightbulb? Time and energy needs to be focused on the goal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strategy<\/strong>: Are we thinking strategically, using carefully crafted mission and vision statements? As it&#8217;s been said&#8212;plan your work and then work your plan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Team<\/strong>: How are we building community among our volunteers? Do they love working with us. Lay the foundation for a strong ministry team that lasts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Training<\/strong>: Is our training geared for today&#8217;s volunteers who want to do it their way? Design training to be relational and relevant to the role.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Include\u00a0these leadership essentials with your volunteer teams and watch ministry thrive!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Edited from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.group.com\/product\/9780764486197-the-new-breed-second-edition.do?sortby=ourPicks&amp;refType=&amp;from=Search&amp;ecList=6&amp;ecCategory=\"><em>The New Breed: Understanding and Equipping The 21st Century Volunteer<\/em><\/a>, Group Publishing, Inc.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great volunteer teams consist of passionate people who have a focused vision, believe in their mission, and empower each other with their initiative and skill development. As a leader of volunteers, ask yourself and your leadership team these questions: Passion: Are our volunteers passionate about our mission. It all starts here. Focus: Is that passion focused like a laser or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":31397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,670],"tags":[687,118],"class_list":["post-31393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lead","category-volunteers","tag-essentials-ministry-basics","tag-leading-volunteers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why These Volunteer Essentials are...Essential! - Group Children&#039;s Ministry<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Great volunteer teams consist of passionate people who have a focused vision, believe in their mission, and empower each other with their initiative and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wwv.group.com\/childrens-ministry\/blog\/lead\/volunteer-essentials-essential\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why These Volunteer Essentials are...Essential! 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