Ministry Boost

Your family ministry culture either attracts new volunteers or quietly repels them. There is no neutral.

A bad volunteer culture will undo everything else your NextGen team does right. Culture eats strategy — and your recruiting strategy — for breakfast.

Culture is not what you post on the wall. It's what people feel when they walk into your volunteer room before the first service on Sunday morning.

If there is a lid on your family ministry, it is almost certainly the fact that all the decisions still run through you. Build a leadership team and start giving things away.

Read books with your NextGen leadership team. Discuss them together. It builds culture, sharpens thinking, and creates the kind of trust that makes conflict survivable.

Did you know your church or ministry may qualify for a Nonprofit Security Grant to improve your facility safety? We can help you navigate the process:

Monthly meetings with your volunteer leadership team. 75% learning together. 25% planning. Don't flip that ratio.

A family ministry leadership team gives you a broader perspective: parents of teenagers, young couples, singles, long-timers. That diversity makes better decisions.

Leadership teams made of volunteers are not a management hack. They're discipleship. You're developing people by giving them real responsibility.

If you want to know why one of your NextGen volunteers is disengaging, start scheduling one-on-ones. The answer almost always shows up in those conversations.

One thing. That's the development goal coming out of every one-on-one with a volunteer. Not a five-point plan. One next step, owned by them.

Ask your NextGen volunteers to self-evaluate before you tell them how you think they're doing. You'll be surprised how honest they are — and how much better the conversation goes.

Your NextGen staff needs more than Sunday sermons to develop as leaders. Our group coaching gives them a structured growth experience:

The one-on-one is where you take a volunteer from 80% to 95%. Group training gets them most of the way there. Individual conversations push them past it.

Skills training for your kids and youth volunteers doesn't all have to come from you. Who else in your building is really, really good at the thing your volunteer needs?

If your NextGen volunteers show up, serve, and leave without ever receiving training, don't be surprised when they lead at the same level forever.

A new NextGen volunteer pays more attention in their first four serves than almost any other time. Use that window. It won't come back.

80% of volunteer development can happen at onboarding — if you build a real onboarding plan. Most family ministries don't. That's why volunteers plateau.

Group coaching for family ministry leaders — built for the real challenges your staff is navigating right now. A few spots left for this cohort:

Volunteers want to get better at what they do. Mastery is one of the three core human motivators. Your NextGen team is no different.