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Volunteers ROCK. Here are ideas all about volunteers from the attendees at the 2012 preteen Conference. Always have Ice Cream Social for leader Appreciation (Then ask if they will return in fall) Great Leaders usually have Preteens, experience Youth make great leaders and make events work

Parents or Volunteers The topic of Parents or Volunteers is always heavy on the mind of the pastors to students of all ages. Who fits where and why as the teacher, motivator, discipler, craft person or creative genius in the preteen ministry? I have read Collaborate and right now I am reading The Future of [...]

April 8, 2011 I proposed to my beautiful fiancé, Tina Clucas. My elaborate plan involved Tina following clues to different locations that were significant to us. At each location there were friends or family waiting to hand her the next clue. It ended with her arriving on the church grounds where we met as staff [...]

This past week we had a training for our middle school LifeGroup Leaders and Family Leaders (LifeGroup Leaders are pastors to our students, Family Leaders are pastors to our pastors). Along with walking through their job description, expectations, how their role fits in with the larger big picture of our student ministry and our church, [...]

Every other Thursday Nick Diliberto interviews one of the co-founders of FourFiveSix about various topics regarding preteen ministry. This week he interviews Heather Dunn on developing preteen ministry volunteers.

How do you balance today’s work with something you’re going to do later? You can’t. God gives a certain amount of time and season. There are seasons in life, but there are never seasons in ministry. It is always on all the time. You can’t do it all. When you’re spinning in life it can [...]