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Volunteer Meetings: 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 Meetings. A meeting is an opportunity to teach your volunteers about a very specific topic. The Grow Strategy recommends scheduling a volunteer meeting at least three times a year, but you can meet with your team in whatever rhythm works best for you! Sharing vision and inspiration with your volunteers is probably pretty important to you as a ministry leader, but volunteers need more than just inspiration. Your volunteers need practical training all year long! They need resources to help them do their jobs better and navigate the issues they're facing with teenagers right now. That's why it's so important to schedule meetings with your volunteers throughout the year to train them on specific topics. If you're building your own customized Grow Strategy Calendar, we recommend putting these meetings on your calendar at least three times a year, and then adding special as-needed meetings during times of ministry transition or new volunteer onboarding. For more frequent meetings, use our Volunteer Huddle Meeting Guide for a quick weekly touch-base.

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