Flashback Friday: The Reason Our Volunteers Disengage
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! I’m a few chapters in to Simon Sinek’s latest book, Leaders Eat Last:...
Category: Serve’s Up
Who Can I Add To The Circle?
If you’re a volunteer or a leader of volunteers, this question has to be your refrain. You can’t do it all, and you shouldn’t try. You should constantly seek to replace yourself. Your knowledge and experience...
How to Force a Volunteer to Care
That’s a ridiculous post title, because of course you can’t force someone to care. They either care, or they don’t. But what if it’s not that simple? What if the two choices aren’t just care or don’t...
We Weren’t Created To Be Chronically Lazy
Over the last few days, North Carolina and surrounding states have been in the middle of Snowpocalypse 2017. If you’re a reader from parts farther north, you should know that North Carolinians don’t handle snow...
5 Reasons You Should Serve at Christmas at DPAC
For three days prior to Christmas, the Summit is going to be invading the Durham Performing Arts Center for a fifth year. We’ll be celebrating the incarnation of Jesus, the majesty of the manger, the...
Serving…Or Simply Surviving?
What kind of mindset are you building into the volunteer culture of your church? Is your church a place where volunteers are healthy, excited, and reproducing? Or do you find that every weekend is an adventure...
Stop The Assembly Line
In his best-selling Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation, takes us through the incredible journey of building the world’s most loved (and most powerful) films. But it wasn’t the “story behind...
Five Reasons Nobody Comes To Your Training
We’ve all been there: we have a volunteer training scheduled. We arrive early. Set up the room. Straighten the chairs. Run over our notes one more time. And then…we wait. And wait. And wait a little...
Flashback Friday: No Insignificant Jobs
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should...
Five Reasons Your New Volunteers Don’t Come Back
Imagine the scenario: you’ve made a big push to invite new people to serve on your volunteer team. You spent weeks designing the publicity, made dozens of phone calls, sent hundreds of emails, had countless...
