Culture Change: Teaching Volunteers to Beg!

by Al Newell “Begging” for volunteers makes long term recruiting worse. Desperate pleas create diminishing returns, dulling the ears of prospects. Worse yet, “begging” cheapens the value of the ministry position itself. Consider a dad of a teenage girl placing a...

Seven Reasons Why Volunteer Ministries Fail

Seven Reasons Why Volunteer Ministries Fail by Al Newell Golf great Ben Hogan said that when a person stands over a golf ball, every natural inclination is wrong. For instance, I once swung so hard that the ball lifted two inches straight up and plopped back down in a...