The Church, like almost every other non-profit organization, is dependent upon volunteers to donate their time to its cause. Last week while reading about volunteers I ran across this from Jim Randall who is the Chief Management Officer and Lead Navigator for Auxano. – a group helping new Churches move forward in growth.

For years we have conducted RealTime Surveys in churches around the country–churches of all sizes and denominations. One of our goals is straightforward: to discover obstacles to engagement in the assimilation process of the church. What issues are keeping attendees/members from worshipping, grouping, growing, serving, and responding to God’s call within the local church? From city to city and church to church we keep finding the same issues for volunteer engagement. If you are like me the discovery of some of those obstacles for engagement in volunteer service might shock you. We consistently find that approximately 50% of survey respondents are willing to serve in your church but they:

1. do not know how to get involved
2. have never been asked to serve
3. have expressed interest but no one has followed up with them
4. did not know the church had places to serve

Our Church (and every Church) has a lot of dreams for the future – Ministries we would like to make stronger, new ministries we would like to start and people we would like to see grow as they serve the Lord giving their time to the cause of Christ.

So –
If you do not know how to get involved, be sure and ask me. I hope our Church becomes an easier place to get involved.
If you have never been asked, know that I am asking now. I hope to catch each of you personally and find out what You would like to do for God.
If you have shown interest, I am sorry no one has ever followed up with you. I would like you to let me know and I will try to help out.
If you did not know about volunteering, we could use help in all of our groups that are under the age of 18 (RUSH, DIVE, Nursery); I would love to develop small groups and I need leaders, hosts, an organizer, teachers, and those willing to offer childcare; I have dozens of places to plug people in for ministry.

The simple truth always remains, “Many hands make light work.”
In ministry the truth is expanded to say that, “Many volunteers make a huge impact.”