Simply Strategic Volunteers: Empowering People for Ministry

by Tony Morgan, Tim Stevens

Power up your ministry with empowered people! These in-the-trenches authors show you how to help volunteers use their strengths to benefit the church —and their spiritual growth. Following in the footsteps of Simply Strategic Stuff , this comprehensive resource offers 99 straightforward solutions to help you recruit, train, motivate, and keep volunteers in ministry.

Lead people from being consumers in the church to being contributors—and help them find greater personal fulfillment in the process. The authors give you field-tested ideas on how
It's simple—when you're strategic!

Genres: Leadership, Church

237 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2004

About the author

Tony is the Founder and Lead Strategist of The Unstuck Group. Started in 2009, The Unstuck Group has served more than 500 churches throughout the United States, Canada and several more countries around the world.

Previously, Tony served on the senior leadership teams of three rapidly growing churches including NewSpring Church in South Carolina. He has five published books including, The Unstuck Church, and, with Amy Anderson, he hosts The Unstuck Church Podcast which has thousands of listeners each week.

Reviews

[Mark French · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pros
99 fantastic nuggets for leaders who serve with volunteers in ministry. Each chapter is brief enough, and God’s Word is referenced enough not to feel like it’s only coming from the mind of man.

Cons
Observe some phrasing from the authors that may give a different leadership ministry context. Depending on your ministry context, you may need to recommend this one with a preface of how conservative/liberal they implement the qualifications of ministers in this book.

On whose shelf?
pastors/directors who oversee volunteer sheep, and the interns in pursuing ministry. For Summer Interns, I would recommend implementing page 232 over a span of 9 weeks within late May and early August. Discussion questions provided

[Dan Mingo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great resource for those in ministry. 99 things to put into practice to empower your volunteer base.

[MzLyz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Welp, just gave myself a new list of tasks!

[Jeremy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like Tom and Tim's way of breaking up info into very small chunks and having tons of chapters. I can read through it quickly, dog-earing pages (yes, I have no qualms with dog-earing) that I want to reference later, and go back and type up a jot list of action items/think-on items based on what I've read. Definitely a great resource for church leaders of any position at churches of any size.

[Doug Price · Rating 4 out of 5]

At first I thought, "With chapters this short what could these guys possibly teach me about leading volunteers?" Within just a few short two page chapters I was hooked on how simple strategies employed by the right leader could effect an entire ministry. This should be read and implemented by any & all church staff, pastors, and leaders.

[Abdulaziz Alzain · Rating 2 out of 5]

From reading this book I found out that the information were not what I expected! From the title I thought there will be good ideas I will learn and implement, but from my perspective the ideas were simple and outdated. But thanks for the authors to share they're information and experience!

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

A MUST read for anyone who works with volunteers.

[Ryan Fisher]

really practical series

[Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great simple collection of helpful tips on leading volunteers

[Jo · Rating 2 out of 5]

About church volunteer development.

[Andrew Barlow · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some helpful points for sure.