Recruiting Zone

From my vantage point and experience of getting to know many children’s ministry leaders, I have concluded that there appears to be five typical ways or scenarios that people use to enter the profession of Children’s Ministry or Kidmin Jobs. Which one of these Entry Scenarios describes you?

Discover 3 ways to help your volunteers through burn-out. 

Use your current volunteers to develop volunteers.

Use this simple skit to teach your kids about reflecting God in their actions.

Ebook resources for you to recruit and train volunteers

Firing someone is not an easy job. But sometimes it IS necessary. 

Do your volunteers need training, but don't have time to attend training? Don't fret. Here's a practical tip for you.

Are you looking for creative ways to get kids involved in serving in your ministry?

Thanks for joining us for the third and final post in our “Reducing the Risk of Juvenile Offenses in Children’s Ministry” series. In Part 3, we’ll share some key elements of the youth safety plan, including details on how to properly screen volunteers, the steps to take when managing an incident, ways to include those in your ministry who have past offenses, and as a final point, we’ll sum up the top action steps you can take immediately to reduce offenses in children’s ministry.

Are those you lead just mockingjays, mindlessly repeating what they hear you say? Or do they sufficiently understand and communicate your vision?

Writing volunteer responsibilities can be the hardest part about putting together a volunteer job description for Children’s Ministry. 

Looking for ideas about recruiting, training, and keeping volunteers? Here are ten great ways you can be an attractive children's ministry to potential volunteers!

Give this fun flyer to your volunteers and have them give to a friend to invite them to serve in kids ministry.

Learn 3 important steps to take when recruiting volunteers. 

Recruiting is difficult, but your ministry can begin to have a waiting list of volunteers if you make a Deep and Wide Sublist.

This is an amazing planning manual compiled by CP Team member Scott Phillips to help those tasked with the job of planning a summer camp.

Short on volunteers this summer? Here's what we did to recruit volunteers to step in and serve!

Learn how to be mentored and who you should pursue as a mentor.

How do you train new leaders? There are many different methods for training new leaders for your ministry, but here are several steps that are each an essential part of every leadership training. The following steps will help guide you as you train your new leaders.  

Steps to train youth to help them become outstanding children's ministry leaders.

Preparing your "benifit package" for your volunteers

How to keep volunteers engaged in your ministry

Make recruiting fun while you purposefully involve your volunteers in the process.

How do you honor those who work for you? How do you honor those who leave?

Are you making it too 'easy' for volunteers? Maybe it's time to challenge them. 

Do you feel tired and frustrated by the lack of support and excitement for your ministry? Here are strategic questions to ask to help you examine why.

Download these funny postcards to encourage your volunteers this season!

A great source for volunteers on Sunday mornings.

Download this invitation for parents to volunteer in their kids' ministry!

I have 3 steps to help recruit in children's ministry. Know where you are going, know who you are recruiting, and know what's next.  

Seeing how important volunteers are in ministry, but having limited resources, we came apon this idea that many went "head over heels"about.

Christmas time is a great time to express appreciation to the people you work with through the year

A great way for teachers to let you know when they need help in the classroom without having to leave the room.

Simple and inexpensive way to let your volunteers know you appreciate them.

This is the application I use with all my volunteers in my Children's ministry.

To show our appreciation for our teachers and volunteers in ministry we used the theme VOTE YES! (since it is election year). Use red, white and blue for all decorations.

Worker screening resources

Struggling for an idea to thank your volunteers? Read on....

We all seem to want to grow our churches, ministries, businesses and the such but more often than not we don't see that growth. Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Create a room for your kids ministry volunteers to get a few refreshments before or after their scheduled time to serve. This not only gives them a place to get to know other volunteers in the kids ministry, gives them natural things like food and drinks, but it shows them that you're thinking about them. I guarantee it'll be the talk of the church.

Here are some example parent and worker survey forms

Ten things to avoid in your children's ministry.

An article that uses a personal experience to look at the necessity for both spiritual and physical safety in ministry.

A way to serve your volunteers...

I believe there are a number of ways in which children's ministry volunteers need support from their leaders. In this article I briefly explore five key things that seem relevant in just about any ministry context. Use these ideas to spark creativity in your own leadership.

Beginning of the year kick off event for Children's Ministry Volunteers, using the theme of "imagination" featuring typical children's toys and games.

What lessons did the Kidologist learn early on in ministry besides not playing games with marshmallows in a room with red carpet?

Here are TEN TIPS for getting a solid children's ministry off to a GREAT START from a veteran of Children's Ministry!

Weekly list of tasks that must be accomplished on a weekly basis.

A fun skit to recruit volunteers