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  • Silos… The Unspoken Barrier to Ministry

    My name is Matthew McMaster and I have been a Delivery Manager at Fellowship Technologies since March of 2004. In that time I have implemented over 100 churches. Some of them have been very sophisticated in how they communicate within their ministries but many of them have a real silo issue. When each ministry functions as its own separate ...
    Posted to Delivering Change (Weblog) by  FTDeliverySvcs  on December 5, 2007
  • How Many Volunteers Signed Up Because of our Last 'Push'???

    Posted by Brian Vinson Recently a user asked me if we store the date an assignment was created behind the scenes. If you do not know the answer to that question, it is YES! Below are reports that utilize this field (as a filter, displayed on the report itself, or behind the scenes) if you ever need to see, for example, individuals that ...
    Posted to Church Dimensions (Weblog) by  FTReportingSvcs  on November 20, 2007
  • Volunteer Central

    Quite often when I speak with churches about their volunteers I get some very common responses.  Some of them are not all bad “we love our volunteers”, “we couldn’t have church without our volunteers support”, or “we try and have a volunteer appreciation dinner once a year to show them how much we appreciate what they do”.  ...
    Posted to Delivering Change (Weblog) by  FTDeliveryTeam  on January 18, 2007
  • Volunteering and Spiritual Development

    This is an invitation to share how you have spritually benefited from personally volunteering through your church ministry.  Please share any personal insight or practical applications that you have experienced.  How has volunteering or ministry service helped make you a more committed Christian or brought you closer to Christ? How ...
    Posted to Spiritual Development (Forum) by  cwood  on January 2, 2007
  • Would You Hire Someone Without Interviewing Them?

    It is becoming clearer that, with salaries for quality people increasing, the best way to pull off quality weekend services is through the help of volunteers – and not just a few!  In fact, to adequately conduct ministry-based activities throughout the week requires some level of effort from people not on staff. Dedicated (I ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  Jeff Hook  on July 30, 2006