Simply Strategic Volunteers: Empowering People For Ministry (Paperback)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 237 pages
• Publisher: Group Publishing(CO) (September 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764427563
• ISBN-13: 978-0764427565
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #167,764 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Add this to your library!, February 22, 2005

By	Mark L. Waltz (Granger, IN) - See all my reviews

Tim Stevens and Tony Morgan understand volunteers. Beyond volunteers, they understand leadership of volunteers. In concise, snappy, story-loaded chapters, these hands-on authors offer practical, usable principles that will help you motivate, empower and create champions of the volunteers who make up your church (or any organization). This should be in your library and the library of every leader in your church. Highly recommended!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Forget Your Macro-Vision!, April 7, 2008

By	John W. Pearson "John Pearson Associates" (San Clemente, CA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Three cheers for Morgan and Stevens! When you place value on your volunteers, you marshal the full resources of your staff, the board, the budget and all the other management buckets to ensure volunteerism success. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

"It is easy to get lost in the micro-purpose of the ministry and forget the macro-vision of the organization," write Tony Morgan and Tim Stevens in their incredibly practical book (99 quick volunteer ideas).

Is your volunteer program in alignment with your organization's mission? Do you have a run-away program (led by volunteers, perhaps) that is no longer aligned with the macro-vision of your organization? Do your programs flow out of your mission statement and your Big Holy Audacious Goal? When they do, blast off with every gun blazing. Remember, your unpaid volunteers and paid volunteers are on the same team! (That would be Jesus' team.)

The Volunteer Bucket is one of 20 buckets in my book, Mastering The Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Non-profit, and you must integrate all the buckets. Everyone who works with volunteers needs their own copy of Simply Strategic Volunteers.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Strategic Volunteers, November 9, 2006

By	A. J. Collins (Fort Worth, Texas United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

An excellent and practical book. Easy reading and definitely a tool for increasing your volunteer staff. Anyone who buys it will not be disappointed!