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Volunteer & Parent Celebrations: 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 and Parent Celebrations. A celebration is anything that celebrates your team for their investment in kids and teenagers, or that celebrates parents for who they are and how they care for their kids. The Grow Strategy recommends celebrating both volunteers and parents every month. In ministry, celebrating volunteers and parents is easy to move to the bottom of our to-do lists. But prioritizing it is about more than just kind-hearted appreciation. It's actually strategic! Celebrating our volunteers is vital for creating a healthy team culture that shows your volunteers you care about them and see the difference they're making. Celebrating parents is vital for building trust with families, so parents can see you care for them without expecting anything in return. Celebrating both volunteers and parents (not just for their achievements but simply because of who they are) models the kind of love and care we hope they'll give the kids and teenagers they're leading and parenting. If you're building your own customized Grow Strategy Calendar, we recommend putting celebrations on your calendar every month (if not every week) as a reminder to care for and encourage both volunteers and parents in both big and small ways.

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