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Parent One-On-One Conversations: an Annual Strategy for Children's and Youth Ministry The Grow Strategy provides seven tactics to help you recruit, train, and retain volunteers in family ministry: volunteer events, meetings, discussion groups, one-on-ones, communication, tools, and celebration. This resource gives you an annual strategy for your Parent Conversations. A conversation is a one-on-one meeting with a parent for the purpose of building relationships and giving and receiving feedback. The Grow Strategy recommends scheduling one-on-ones with parents when needed throughout the year. We're big believers that meeting face-to-face with parents during challenging moments is pretty important-not just for them, but for you and your ministry, too. These kinds of conversations are important for parents because they need to know you care about them, and spending time listening and talking with them is a great way to communicate how much you value them. But these conversations are important for you and your ministry too because they give you an opportunity to evaluate how well your ministry is doing when it comes to supporting families, so you can improve. If you're building your own customized Grow Strategy Calendar, you won't be able to plan these one-on-ones with parents ahead of time, since these conversations are meant to help you respond to challenging situations as they arise.

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