What you do matters, and it’s important to celebrate and remember. Remember what you trained about at the beginning of the year. Remember why you do what you do. Remember why it’s important to lead small.
10 Ways to Recruit Volunteers in Any Ministry
How do you get volunteers? It’s the same challenge in any volunteer organization. We all struggle to get enough volunteers. Recruiting volunteers is a challenge anywhere. Here are 10 tips for getting the best volunteers in any ministry.
Your Generosity Is Life-Giving
What you do matters. What volunteers do for FMSC is life-giving. It is literally giving life to children around the world who otherwise would starve to death.
SportDisciple is Showing Up in Haiti
Barrett has kids coming to know Christ as their personal Savior. He says a lot of times it takes a year or more. Why? The kids have to see the relationships are real.
Quick Links: Family Vacations & Chats With A Preschooler
Quick links are a chance to see what’s out there on the interwebs. Here are our favorite finds from the past week: Family Vacations Make Families Stronger One of our favorite family experiences only lasted 24 hours, but I think it proves this point. You don’t need an exotic (or expensive!) excursion, but your family vacation […]
Launching Special Needs Ministry
With an increasing number of children with special needs, is your church ready to launch a special needs ministry? We talk about why, practical tips for getting started, and how to grow the ministry once you get started.
Helping Them Overcome
Life for young adults is hard. Adolescence starts earlier & ends later, so it lasts longer. Pressures have increased. Here’s how you can help your younger people persevere.
Running Matters
Today, I went for a run. I’m not a runner. Nothing about me says run or runner. But today I ran. Well, it was more like run for a bit, walk a longer bit, run for a bit, walk a longer bit. I’m really a walker. I like to move. Today the sun peaked out […]
3 Tips for Having “The Talk” With Your Kids
Do your knees shake and your breathing get heavy when you think about having “the talk” with your kids? I, most certainly, am not ready. Thankfully, it’s still years away… …except it probably isn’t anymore. I recently heard on the Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast (episode 121 link) that kids as young as 11 are exposed […]
Every Life Changed By…Young People?
Is your church struggling to reach younger people? Are you trying to find more volunteers, more money, more vision, better questions, more culturally awareness? See how Growing Young can bring vitality to your church.