We just kicked off our eighth iteration of the High-Capacity Volunteer (HCV) Cohort: a collaboration of great leaders from around the Summit who have committed to spend the next eight months in a deep...
We’ve talked before about the need for a Volunteer Headquarters (VHQ), a place where your servant leaders can grab coffee, store their stuff, and build relationships with one another. We have them at all...
Every so often we dip our toes into a series called Danny Recommends:, posts that tip you off to the stuff that I…you know. The recommendations might be products for use in your ministry, resources that...
You just landed on an every-once-in-a-while series called Primer Posts, a curated collection of my favorite articles and books on one particular topic. These are the resources I usually point to when people ask about getting...
If you’ve been around this corner of the innerwebs for a while, you know that I’ve often crowd-sourced your input to help me diversify my reading list. And you’ve delivered! Over the last few...
I’ve long been a proponent of “attend one, serve one:” volunteers fully commit to attending an entire worship service (no slipping in late and slipping out early) and fully commit to serving during an...
Each month, we revisit a series of posts called Guest Services Road Trip. We’ll travel the country from the comforts of our couches, interviewing leaders who are in the trenches of ministry. It’s the dead of winter...
The end of the year means you can’t throw a tin of homemade Chex mix without some well-meaning blogger sharing the best books they read over the past twelve months. And since I consider...
It’s the end of a decade, campers! (Or the eve of the beginning of the year that will mark the end of a decade, if you just like to be controversial.) And sure, there...
Thank you for being a reader in 2019! If you’re an email subscriber or RSS feed reader can’t see this year’s (surprisingly tame) Christmas card, click here.
As we count down the final hours until Christmas, I think it’s fitting to share this passage from my favorite Christmas-book-that’s-not-really-a-Christmas-book, God Came Near by Max Lucado. Merry Incarnation Eve, everyone. The stable stinks...
By the time this post goes live, we’ll be three days away from Christmas With the Summit, a day-long series of celebrations of the incarnation. But at the time of writing, we’re still on...
Many times, we assume that we simply have to deliver the sizzle and sparkle to our first-time guests. After all, if we don’t knock their socks off with our golf shuttles and Disney-esque environments...
Our 2020 training dates are live, but one easy-peasy option is filling up quickly. We offer Guest Services Weekenders four times per year. In 2020, those dates are: January 25 April 25 July 25...
