Episode 0002 - Shawna Lester on Serving Weekly, Staying Healthy and Crazy Fun Ideas

Welcome to Episode 2 of the FOUR12 Canada Podcast.

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We are excited to have Shawna Lester. Shawna is the Director of Family Ministry/Interim Midland Campus Pastor at Connexus.  She is going to share with us some amazing tips on serving weekly, keeping healthy and crazy fun things to try. 

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PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS

Start with Small Steps to change the culture

• Gather a few to get on board and have them help others to catch the vision
• Develop weekly roles and roles for those that can’t,
• Help them find the best role that fits them
• Try 8 to 10 weeks to start for Elementary and younger, middle school and highschool is a longer commitment
• Attend one and serve one

 Coaches - build up some coaches that will build up your team and check to see how everyone is doing.

 How much is too much, ways to stay healthy

• Watch for disengagement, passion and enjoyment lacking or dwindled
• Arriving late
• As the leader make sure you check in
• Notice how often people are serving and where

 How to implement crazy fun ideas

1st Filter through the mission of your church and ministry

In Children’s ministry:

• Does this help small group leaders win?
• Does this help families win?
• Does this help new people attending?

Adults or whole church:

• Make sure it’s reasonable and executable
• Practical for the space
• Think outside the box
• Consider the barriers and ways to work around them

 Ways to Encourage Volunteers

• Celebrate major holidays
• Send thank you cards
• Candy
• Breakfast?! Or treats
• Good coffee
• Make sure you remove barriers to serving
• Provide a space for the kids of those that are serving
• Invest in them as people

 Connecting with families

• Realize you can’t meet them all at once every week, plan to meet one family a week
• Send out Birthday cards
• Calling and talking to parents
• Ask about up coming events

 Share the wins!!

• Share with others that are serving
• Share with the families
• Celebrate the wins!

 One Thing to Remember!

 Every person has a Place!

Thanks for listening!  We hope this episode has equipped you for greater influence through serving and we don’t want you to miss a single episode so if you haven’t done so already, subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. And you can help us reach more people by writing a review for the podcast on the Apple podcast app and other podcast apps that you use. The FOUR12 Canada podcast is a ministry of Faith Baptist Church in Huntsville Ontario. Explore everything FOUR12 Canada at four12.ca. Thanks for spending some time with us. See you next time!

 

Up Next Season 1 Episode 3: Rich Birch

Importance of Communication, Great Ideas to Encourage

Volunteers and How to Set Up Your Team to Succeed