The Lead Volunteers Leadership Blog
The Sunday School Zone Lead Volunteers Leadership Blog addresses the ongoing needs of those in a church or children’s ministry organization who are responsible for leading the volunteers engaged in that ministry. Josh Denhart, the host and creator of Lead Volunteers, is a veteran pastor and ministry leader who provides regular, ongoing leadership advice for those in the trenches of ministry.
Check out Josh’s brief videos (typically about 2 minutes) and blog posts below that will encourage you, inform you, and equip you as you develop your own leadership skills and, in turn, equip others to deepen and expand the ministry of YOUR organization!
Lead Volunteers: Make Room for Loving People
In this episode of Lead Volunteers (just under 2 minutes), Josh talks about the need to understand our calling to love people and to be sure we make room for loving people in our daily responsibilities. It’s easy to get consumed and overwhelmed by “the machine” of administrative duties and tasks and forget to simply…
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Lead Volunteers: Attending Your Own Event
Attend your own event. It sounds like common logic. Who in their right mind would plan an event but then not attend the event that they have planned? But ministry is so complex and there are times where so much is going on. You may have worked so hard at planning and preparing the event,…
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Lead Volunteers: Create Community Among Your Volunteers
In this episode of Lead Volunteers (just over 2 minutes), Josh talks about the value and priority of creating community among your volunteers. Yes, they need a relationship with you as the leader, but they also need a relationship with each other! Josh’s ideas and resources can help you immediately develop community among your volunteers!…
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Lead Volunteers: Vulnerability is the Key to Community
Everybody wants community. We were created to be in community. Isolation is one of the worst forms of punishment that can ever be executed upon a human being. Solitary confinement is torture. There is beauty and health and healing found in community. If community is a beautiful treasure and a prize behind a locked door,…
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Lead Volunteers: Avoid Burnout in Ministry
In this episode of Lead Volunteers (just under 2 minutes), Josh talks about the “villain” of burnout and invites you to let him help you get organized, retain leaders, and avoid burnout in ministry. Josh’s proven system can help you become more productive and less stressed in your ministry. Lead Volunteers video episodes by Josh…
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Lead Volunteers: Know Thyself
St. Augustine said to “Know Thyself.” What type of a leader are you? One of the most important things you can do for the health and benefit of the ministry you lead is to know yourself. Do you understand your SHAPE for ministry? SHAPE is a wonderful acronym that stands for Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality,…
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Lead Volunteers: An Orderly Ministry is More Appealing
It is amazing to me the differences between an orderly ministry and a disorderly ministry. A ministry that is clean and clutter free just seems more appealing. Mirror Image? I have to take you back 10-15 years ago when I was a high school chemistry teacher. I taught next to a teacher and our rooms…
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Lead Volunteers: Walk with the Wise
Walk with the wise and become wise. A companion of fools, however, suffers harm. Have you ever noticed that when you spend a lot of time with an individual, you begin to say some of the same phrases and have some of the same jokes? You begin to carry out some of the subtle rhythms…
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Lead Volunteers: Automate Everything
I have a passion for automation. I have a passion for setting up systems and processes that can reduce human involvement and maximize ministry output. Common Questions Let me give you an example. During my time in church ministry, I kept an email folder called drafts. Inside of that folder were 25 different common questions…
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