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Volunteer Kick-Off Event: 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 Volunteer Kick-Off Event. An event is a major vision-casting opportunity for your team-an environment you'd want every volunteer to attend. The Grow Strategy recommends scheduling one volunteer event a year to begin your new school year. If your ministry is like most kids or youth ministries, you've probably got plenty of events on your calendar already. But the vast majority of those events are probably designed for kids and teenagers. That makes sense, of course, but here's the thing: just like events help you engage and inspire kids and teenagers, the right event can help you engage, inspire, and empower your volunteers in new ways, too. If you're building your own customized Grow Strategy Calendar, we recommend putting this event on your calendar in the first month of your school year. Since we all know it's a challenge to get our entire teams to show up at the same time, there's only one of these events every year. With that in mind, ask your volunteers to do everything they can to be there! (But make it easy for them to catch up on what they missed, just in case.)

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