Welcome
Welcome to a resource specifically designed to equip parish leaders to recruit and support volunteers for ministry.
If you want to be more effective in the ways in which you recruit volunteers...
If you want to support your volunteers with appropriate induction and training...
If you want to explore ways of recognising and rewarding your volunteers...
If you want to deepen the connection of volunteer ministries to a prayerful theology of participation... - this website is for you...
Charities and other voluntary sector organisations depend on volunteers. Parishes depend on volunteers too... The resources on this site have taken the professional principles and practice of effective Volunteer Management and applied them to the culture and context of a Christian parish community.
The WORKBOOK, To Love and Serve the Lord, contains 6 steps to enable everyone to participate more fully in parish life and in the mission of the Church...
The WORKSHOPS provide parish leaders with the opportunity to consider the principles and practice of effective Volunteer Management and how they might be appropriately implemented in a parish...
The MINISTRY BOOKLETS provide detailed, practical guidance on recruiting and supporting volunteers for particular ministries...
The NEWSLETTER is a quarterly publication providing information and ideas to support a variety of volunteer ministries in parish communities...
All of the resources are rooted in prayer and Scripture....