- Individually reconnect with those you’ve lost. One of the easiest ways to recruit and develop volunteers is to reconnect with those volunteers that stopped volunteering. Give them a call, set up an in person meeting, or at least email them and see how they are doing and if they would be interested in coming back to volunteer. People want to be connected and if they stopped volunteering over Covid, maybe they will want to be back if you just reconnect and ask them.
- Set up a Volunteer Gathering. This is a bigger group gathering. In the point above, it’s more individualized. This one is to get all the volunteers, those who are currently serving and those who have disconnected. Get them together, celebrate them and cast vision for what is possible now at the Church post-Covid. Hopefully they will love being in a community again and want to serve more.
- Think creatively. Online Volunteer options are great for people. With covid we great our Online Service Chat Host team and they continue to serve now. Think beyond the traditional volunteers roles and think creatively to meet more online or phygital roles in this post-Covid world. There are a lot of different tech roles people can be serving in today. Here are 5 of them.
- Get the word out! People may not be volunteering because they don’t know the options you have. Post on social media, have someone share on stage, do a ministry fair, do a video, incorporate it in to a sermon series. There are lots of options you can do to recruit and develop volunteers. Like the point above, just think outside the box a little and be creative.
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