As church leaders, we must walk alongside and train new volunteers to feel both competent and confident to serve each week.
According to Ephesians 4:12, our job as church leaders is to equip the saints for the work of ministry. There’s no asterisk in Scripture that says we can skip this approach when it comes to how we train new volunteers in our ministry. We must walk alongside and equip our volunteers to feel both competent and confident to serve each week.
In their book Better Learning Through Structured Teaching, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey lay out a diagram that is helpful in illustrating four steps to equip someone to serve in their new volunteer role.
Consider for a moment Jesus’ relationship with the disciples.
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