The Volunteer Church - by Leith Anderson & Jill Fox (Paperback)

About the Book

Church leaders know that volunteers are the church's most vital work force. In The Volunteer Church, Leith Anderson and Jill Fox offer guidance to church leaders on how best to minister to these essential workers, and provide a complete handbook for them to recruit, inspire, train, and maintain volunteers in congregations large or small.

Book Synopsis

Working with volunteers can be a rewarding and exciting experience--for them as well as for those who recruit, train, and maintain their services. However, if church leaders are honest, they know there are times that it can be frustrating. They know that volunteers are essential, vital to creating growth and new ministries, and are the key to introducing youth and children to Jesus Christ. They have the welcoming smiles at the door, they serve the food, pray for needs, stuff bulletins, organize missions trips, and on and on. If they want to see their church grow, it must be a volunteering church, a church that runs on volunteers.

The Volunteer Church was developed out of the ministry of Leith Anderson at Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, where a vital and vibrant volunteer program boasting 4,000 participants grew under the leadership of Jill Fox. The principles and training have been applied in churches of all sizes and denominations in seminar settings across the country as well as at Wooddale Church.

In The Volunteer Church, leaders will

• Learn how to effectively recruit and train volunteers
• Discover how to build sustainable, long-lasting ministries led by volunteers
• Find methods for encouraging and maintaining your volunteers for success
• Know how to build teams of volunteers
• Understand how to find the right service that fits a willing volunteer

If you lead a church and are exhausted by the lack of volunteer help, or if you are a volunteer and dream of adding numbers to your team, this book is for you. If you are on a church staff and know that a new ministry is needed but volunteers and training are required to make it happen, here you will find the resources to recruit, inspire, train, and maintain the church's most vital workforce.

Review Quotes

'The Volunteer Church captures the imagination of what church should and could be now and in the future. People are longing to volunteer but need a pathway. Here it is!'--Jo Anne Lyon, General Superintendent, the Wesleyan Church

'The Volunteer Church is a must read for every ministerial and lay leader in the church. I only wish I had had this book early on in my ministry.'--Dr. George O. Wood, the General Council, Assemblies of God

'The Volunteer Church is an immensely practical and hands-on guide to encouraging, recruiting, motivating, and caring for the volunteers who make our church ministry possible.'--Rev. Paul Jorgensen, Cornerstone Church, Litchfield, MN

'This book should be required reading for all desiring to develop and maintain a volunteer culture in the local church setting.'--Justin A. Irving, Bethel Seminary

'You need this book. Read it and discover how to create a culture of volunteering at your church.'--Jason Strand, Pastor, Eagle Brook Church, Minneapolis