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4 Foundational Summer Priorities

Recruiting Adult Volunteers

As some of you read the words above, “Let every one of your volunteers know”…some of you squirmed in your seat.

But I don’t have many adult volunteers.

It’s a simple fact: it would be much easier to put adult mentors in one-on-one situations with teenagers if you actually had more adult mentors. Summer is a great time to recruit workers for the harvest (Matthew 9: 37,38).

How?

Simple. Just give them a taste of ministry.

See all those activities above? Take another adult with you on some of those activities. Give them a taste of what it’s like to hang with a teenager for a day. Let them hear some of the stories as teenagers open up and reveal their hearts.

I assure you, there’s no better way to recruit workers of the harvest than giving them an opportunity to get waist deep with you in the waters of youth ministry.

Don’t scare potential volunteers away, asking them to sign on the dotted line…just ask them to hang out next Wednesday. Let them experience God’s work in the lives of teenagers, and then you can talk about how they can be involved on a regular basis.

But it all starts with a taste. What is a good venue where you could invite a potential volunteer and give them a taste of what God is doing in your ministry?