Volunteer Onboarding Kit: 5 Steps For Growing Your Children’s Ministry Team

You can achieve growth and excellence in your children’s ministry, and an important part of reaching both goals is adequately onboarding volunteers for ministry. With customization made easy, this intentional onboarding process will equip you create a volunteer culture that will help lead to overall ministry success.

The recruiting and how-to videos for each step (with scripts) and completely editable guide make it possible to tailor all the content to fit your ministry—in any season—as you explore these steps:

Step 1: Prepare

• Children’s Ministry Interest Form
• Job Descriptions for Volunteer Roles
• Volunteer Recruiting Scripts 

Step 2: Seek

• Volunteer Interview Guide
• Spiritual Gifts Survey

Step 3: Screen

• Volunteer Application
• Volunteer Covenant 

Step 4: Train

• Volunteer Training Meeting Guide
• Volunteer Handbook
• Volunteer Training Checklist

Step 5: Evaluate & Follow Up

• 90-Day Volunteer Check-In
• Annual Volunteer Survey

These ready-to-use tools will set up your volunteers—and ultimately your ministry—for success as you walk through these 5 steps.

 

Developed by and for Ministry Leaders

This ministry resource was created by David C Cook in partnership with a team of dedicated ministry practitioners and experts. These are people like you who are serving on the front lines of the local church—teachers, leaders, pastors, and doers-of-all-things-ministry.

David C Cook is a nonprofit organization dedicated to publishing and distributing leadership, discipleship, and worship resources to help Christians all over the world grow in their faith and pass it on to the next generation.

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File Types:

• Fully Editable Word Document
• MP4 Videos