Kidmin Conference 2013
Encouraging Your Team
“A great volunteer team is made up of rookies and
veterans.”
65% of volunteers say never been thanked.
1. Create
culture of encouragement
“Culture doesn’t happen by accident – it is created.”
2. Serve them
After they arrived at
Capernaum and settled in a house, Jesus asked his disciples, “What were you
discussing out on the road?” 34 But they didn’t answer, because
they had been arguing about which of them was the greatest. 35 He
sat down, called the twelve disciples over to him, and said, “Whoever wants to
be first must take last place and be the servant of everyone else.” Mark 9
3. Love
them
People don’t follow a title –
they follow someone they love and care about
4. Do Life with
them
5. Help them
serve from the overflow
· Make sure they are attending “big church.”
· Stay away from “can you stay over and help for an
extra service.”
· Don’t let them overload on serving.
· Give them time off.
· Honor them by honoring ratios.
6. Brag on them
7. Respect them
· never confront or correct by email or phone call – in
person
· never demean in front of others
· return their phone calls and emails
· follow thru when you tell them you’re doing to do
something – write it down
8. Care
for Them
9. Party with
them
10. Listen to
them
11. Encourage
them with your words
12. Value them
13. Thank them
14. Pray
for them
15. Give them
gifts
16. Remind what
they do is vitally important
17. Remind
them they are making a difference
18. Affirm
them
19. Pay them
- a changed life is their pay
- stories of life change - tell them
- invite them to baptisms
