Live Blogging Final Session

Doug Fields

• God has the leaders you just have to find them
• Who do you think cares more about your ministry? You or God? Don’t you think he has the shepherds ready to equip your ministry?
• There is a myth in the church that you have to be young and cool to be a good youth worker
• God has the leaders, we just have to look in the unlikely places to find them
• 10% of Volunteers will come to you 90% will come because they are asked
• 2. Raise the Bar, raise healthy leaders
• Exous 18:17-23 (Jethro’s Leadership Advice)
• 1 Peter 5:2-3 (NLT)
• Seek out Humble leaders
• You must have a screening process for leaders
• 3. Valued Leaders become Valuable Leaders
• Be clear with expectations
• Care for WHO the leader is more than WHAT the leader does
• Be specific with Praise
• Commit to develop leaders not just recruit and hire them
• 4. Volunteers need: Care, Conversation, Confrontation, and Challenge
• People (Leaders) LEAVE Leaders not Ministries
• You have to learn to confront to be an effective leader
• Saddleback Learnings on Volunteers:
• Training and Meetings are Overrated
• Great Communication with Volunteers goes a long way
• Leading Volunteers is a ministry within itself