Author: Danny

High-Capacity Volunteer Cohort: A How-To Guide

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 dive...

Be Stingy With Your VHQ

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 of...

Danny Recommends: HAITIAN Sign Holder

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 will...

Primer Posts

Volunteer Culture: Asking

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 started...

Top Ten Quotes: Developing Female Leaders

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 years...

How Does “Attend One, Serve One” Affect Volunteers’ Kids?

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 entirely...

Aloha Nani Church (Kapolei, Hawaii)

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 in...

2019 Year in Review: Books

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 myself...

2019 Year in Review: Posts

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 are...

Merry Christmas from the Franks Family!

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.