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Leading
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How can your church's organization be structured to best enhance your ability to guide all believers into their gifted ministries?
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- Snooze Repellent
8 ways to keep meeting participants awake and alert.
- 15 Smart Things to Do During Your First Three Months
It’s your first day on staff as volunteer coordinator at a new church. The senior pastor has introduced you to the staff, donuts from your first-day welcome party have been reduced to crumbs in the bottom of an empty box, and you’re sitting alone in your office.
Now what?
- Clean Up Your Act
A different take on a volunteer clean-up day.
- Develop Your Church by Developing Your People
Too often we focus on programs and ministries rather than people. But when we focus on developing our people, the programs and ministries will take care of themselves far better.
- Child Abuse and the Church
While we may not want to think about it, churches have a responsibility to work to prevent child abuse within their walls, and a legal obligation to report suspicions of child abuse in the home. What should you do, and what should you look for?
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 Pastoral Ministry in the 21st Century: The Encyclopedia of Practical Ideas
Refuel your ministry and refresh yourself! Be equipped with hundreds of practical ideas that cover the dynamic and daily aspects of pastoral ministry. You get more than 600 ideas including sermon illustrations, creative approaches to experiential worship, ideas for personal refreshment, and more.  Transform Your Church with Ministry Teams
The concept of "ministry teams" is rapidly taking hold in churches, but just what are they and how do they work? Transform Your Church with Ministry Teams outlines what effective ministry teams look like, describes what they can offer local congregations, and gives concrete step-by-step suggestions for making them happen.
E. Stanley Ott explores three main areas of ministry-team development. First, he explains the philosophy behind ministry teams and discusses the issues involved in shifting from committee-based to team-based ministry. Second, he tells how to begin ministry teams, including how to identify team leaders and members and how to determine their roles. Third, he looks at the details of ministry-team life, including ways to build team fellowship, foster discipleship and communication within teams, and accomplish specific ministry tasks.
Published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.  ME to WE: A Pastor's Discovery of the Power of Partnership
There's no denying that healthier, happier churches have nearly everyone involved in some form of ministry. Alan Nelson, executive editor of REV! Magazine, guides your congregation to discover, develop, and deploy their gifts in service--and help your entire church reach its full potential. Explore practical way to move your church from a pastor-centric model to one that maximizes its volunteers, staff, and everyone in your church. Includes a variety of "best practices" from interviews with churches that have released their pastors from "doing it all" -- and successfully turned the way they do ministry upside-down.  Church Volunteer Central--1 Year Membership
Maximize your volunteers the easy way. Join Church Volunteer Central today, and you'll have access anytime to online resources for volunteer training, recruiting, and managing. You'll get a full database of training ideas and tips; access to background check services; 24/7 online training for your volunteers; ready-to-use forms, applications, policies, handbooks, and job descriptions; plus savings on great volunteer management resources.
For more information or to see a preview, visit Church Volunteer Central today!  Simply Strategic Volunteers: Empowering People for Ministry
Following on the success of their recent release Simply Strategic Stuff, church administration experts Tim Stevens and Tony Morgan guide readers through rough waters of volunteer management. They ease the pain and please the brain with bite-sized tips and strategies for recruiting, training, motivating, and keeping valuable ministry volunteers. It's in-depth and in touch with the practical needs of busy leaders looking to convert church "consumers" to passionate "contributors."As a CVC member, save 20% when you buy this item in the CVC store.
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- The Inside Track Archives
Every month we send our members The Inside Track e-newsletter filled with trends, tips, and the opportunity to learn from people like you trying to build their church's ministries. Some of this information is based on the current times, but much of it is timeless. Here you will find all the past issues, which you can browse at leisure.
- Volunteer Leadership Process
Church Volunteer Central is designed to help you through the steps of making your vision for a volunteer leadership process become a reality. It starts with building a firm foundation on solid biblical thinking about volunteers and volunteerism. See our five step process here.
- Staff Manager
Staff Manager lets you keep your workers' information together in one place. Track contact, service, and gifting information, and even search for volunteers by area of ministry.
- My Account
Here you can make changes to your account's email and password, track shipments, and view your order history.
- Leadership Process Assessment
A thriving volunteer ministry is composed of several elements. This tool is designed to help you evaluate the current environment in your church toward each of the elements underlying the volunteer leadership process.
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- Red Tape or Green Light? -
Mar, 2009
As news of the economy continues to be sour, Krista Petty says leaders may be tempted to hunker down and ride out the storm, resourcing fewer new externally focused ministry endeavors with their time and funds. But why?
- Too Many Volunteers! -
Mar, 2009
Too Many Volunteers!
We only need about 30 volunteers each food distribution date. I don’t want to discourage anyone from coming; however, I don’t want people to feel they aren’t needed either. How do we handle the extra people?
- Getting Leaders Out of the Way -
Mar, 2009
Many pastors entered the ministry with this model: I do all the important work, and the people give their money and watch (until I cannot do everything, then I hire staff). But Don Simmons points out that this model isn’t equipping the people of the church to be involved in ministry themselves.
- Pull-n-Peel Youth Leaders -
Apr, 2009
We’re excited to welcome Danette Matty as our new columnist for youth ministry leaders. Danette has been speaking about, writing about, and most importantly doing youth ministry “since big hair was in.”
Just as it takes practice to pull away an entire Twizzler without things going to pieces, there are specific skills youth leaders need to practice to become proficient at their ministries—especially as it involves leading volunteers. Danette shares with us some of the things she has learned.
- Small Groups Serving -
Apr, 2009
Small groups come together to grow in community and in their relationship with Christ and one another and to serve the Lord together. Their focus is a three-part approach to growing deeper by knowing, loving, and serving God together. Gia Garey shows us how small groups can be involved in service.
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