Reading: Mobilizing Volunteer Leaders

Mobilizing Volunteer Leaders
by Henry Reyenga

What Energizes Volunteers?

1 Thessalonians  2:10-14

• You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed. (10) For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children (11)

Encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory. (12)

And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.  (13)

1 Thessalonians 2:10-14
For you, brothers, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own countrymen the same things those churches suffered from the Jews, (14)

What Energizes Volunteers?

1. You will share the stage

People grow best when you share ministry

2. You are an Encourager

Be a Barnabas

Acts 4:36 Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means Son of Encouragement)

3. You notice the different giftedness and connect that giftedness into ministry involvement

1 Corinthians 12:30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?….

4. You keep people out of the Political Battles that can rage in any organization

1 Corinthians 3:4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?

5. You keep people from the over Volunteer Syndrome

Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

6. Give people needed training

1Tim. 4:7 Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly.

Titus 2:4 Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children,

7. Do not show favoritism

James 2:1 My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don’t show favoritism. 

8. Keep the Big Picture in mind- They have a dream to grow spiritually

Jude 20 But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.

9. If you are in a paid situation, don’t complain about your salary to members of the church.

1 Timothy 5:18 For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain,” and “The worker deserves his wages.”

10. Doable projects, respectfully and sustainably considered

 If you have to guilt people to do things, it is usually not going to be sustainable 

What is in your parishioner’s best interest

•      For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children (11)