Recruiting Zone

A fun flyer to invite folks to consider the ONE New Years Resolution that will take care of all of them: Serving in kids ministry!

Send home Valentine's that are also recruiting cards that invite folks to join the children's ministry in sharing God's love with children.

Your recruiting should be fun and attractive! Here is an RSVP Card to "Reserve a Spot in the Children's Ministry," complete with a complete menu of ways a volunteer can get invoved. Custom serving has arrived!  

What are the qualities that make a great leader?

Need some new workers in your children's minsitry? (Who doesn't?!?) Here are a variety of recruiting ideas compiled by the Kidologist.

This is a sermon Karl Bastian preaches when he has an opportunity to address an entire church congregation.

A BUNCH of ideas for encouraging your volunteers from the aisles of the grocery store!

8 Tips on Recruiting from Karl Bastian

The why and how of ministry highlight videos with lots of samples.

How do you fire a volunteer? That's a tough question, but here are some guidelines you will find helpful as you approach this delicate duty!

Improve your volunteer retention by finding the right volunteers from the start!

As shared on Kidmin Talk #99, this is the recruiting flyer I made for my church. And, YES! You can use it too!

Karl reviews the KidCheck Church Check-In System

A fun recruiting flyer that invites parents to see if their child is a winner!

Customizable Job Description Flyers

Fun super-hero-themed postcards designed to make joining the kids ministry team easy and inviting!

Here is a fun positive way to have some parents helping every week in your children's service.

Here is everything you need to hold a Teen Training Volunteer Session to inspire, instruct and instill confidence in your youth volunteers.

Highly mediocre children's pastors... Do everything themselves. They would never think of delegating or multiplying themselves in others. Their self esteem relies on being a doer. They get insecure if others around them begin to demonstrate any leadership skills...

What is the most important volunteer role in your Children’s Church service? 

Become more relational with your volunteers while recruiting.

A simple fun way to recognize new or super volunteers! Just add a pictures and some interesting facts and post outside the room they serve in!

Pastor Karl training leaders on how to include parents in children's ministry. (Recruiting tips too!)

I hear it often... "I'm having trouble recruiting." May I be so bold as to suggest your problem isn't recruiting. If you focus on something far more important than recruiting, you'll have all the volunteers you'll ever need. You may even have extras! Read on for the secret to building the largest team in the church!

A Superhero Themed Recruiting Tool

Four volunteer encouragement postcards.

A sample recruiting e-mail to parents attending regularly to your church, but not yet serving on any ministry teams to demonstrate how to be positive while making the case for why they should serve.

Parent Survey print-outs to encourage volunteering in the Children's Ministry.

A fun poster highlighting the traits that make a Super Volunteer! 

Use this fun back-to-school checklist to recruit parents into the kids ministry. 

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

Welcome your Kindergartener's into kids church with a special event designed just for them (and their parents)!

What do volunteers really need from their leaders to give them support and help them feel appreciated? Hear what these volunteers said. 

Do you have a prayer team for your children's ministry? One of the most powerful tools believers have in ministry is prayer! Here are ten ways to build a prayer team for your children's ministry.

In charge of ministry? You don't have to do it all!

Kid’s can be the church of today, if we let them… and help them.

How do you honestly feel when you get that dreaded email/call or hallway encounter where your volunteer is sharing with you that they are departing?

Kids are not the church of the future. They can be the church of today!

Use this list as a springboard for your own endeavors in recruiting volunteers.

Kids matter to God and they should matter to us. Here are 68 reasons why.

Don't lead the same ho-hum meetings. Learn tricks to engage your team!

Find out if your ministry is a Dinghy or a Cruise Ship based on your recruiting practices!

There are many books on the market designed to teach ministry leaders how to recruit volunteers. Most teach basically the same principles, and we know them all. So why do we keep hearing that people don’t want to volunteer anymore?

We know it's not intentional. You would never purposely sabotage your volunteers. But what if it's happening anyway? These quick tips may help you become more aware of how you may be jeopardizing the volunteers in your ministry.

Encourage your Sunday School teachers with these 5 Bible verses. 

Can a Pastor take a day off? Yes, you CAN get a day OFF. And it can be Amazing!

A 25-page Children's Ministry Manual for your volunteers!

Saying "sorry" is a good thing, but not when your goal is to win volunteers to your ministry and vision.

Learn 4 mistakes many Children's Pastors make with their volunteers and how to avoid making them

6 things you can do to help your volunteers to become ministry partners