Recruiting the leaders you need: a training resource

One of the greatest challenges in children's ministry is recruiting leaders.

“Part of your role as leader is to find and develop your replacement who will do a better job than you.”

Yet, there are never enough leaders.
The main obstacles seem to be our hesitation to ask already busy adults to add one more thing to their hectic life or our reticence because we wonder if the person is 'the right kind of person' for children's ministry. Then there are the discouraging knock backs and general disinterest. Easier, we think, just to put an add in the newsletter and see what happens. Yet that rarely works.
Recruit we must and now is the time to begin thinking about next year. It may seem hard, yet there are things we can do to make it easier. Here is the short list.

• 1. Adopt a recruiting attitude.
• 2. Pray
• 3. Hunt
• 4. Inspire
• 5. Involve.

For a more complete description of each of these go to the web site 'training' page. See Leaders and download the file 'Recruiting Leaders.' Let me know how you get on, or if I can help you with any of the ideas mentioned.