This week’s poll question comes from Steven (from GentoGenYM) and asks about how often you meet up with your volunteer team. There are lots of different strategies to this – I’ve heard people meeting every week before youth group to as little as once a year.
In my current ministry setting we’ve moved away from the formal meetings every month to quarterly, to now maybe 3 times a year. In between we make sure to stay in regular contact with our team and pour into those that need more coaching over meals or coffee. Vote now!
JG
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Josh Griffin has been in youth ministry for 16+ years in a small church and a big church. He currently serves as the High School Pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA. [
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Geoff Stewart serves the Jr / Sr High School Pastor at Peace Portal Alliance Church in Surrey B.C.
Chris Wesley serves as the Director of Student Ministry at Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Maryland.
Colton Harker serves with Josh at Saddleback Church. He is currently in his second year in youth ministry.
When I got to my church I’m at now, the youth ministry team met every month, both middle school and high school volunteers together (although our ministry programs were separate).
Now we have two meetings (December & May) with both ministry teams together, and two (August & January) with each of the teams separately, and we have coaches who support a handful of volunteers that we ask to meet with at least once (ideally twice) in between each of the other four meetings.
Big tipping point for me was reading “Sticky Teams” and so much of it had to do with appreciating the schedules of the people who are serving. I want the high capacity people who are probably really busy because they are high capacity. If they have time for a bunch of extra meetings, it may be a red flag.