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How to Provide Serving Opportunities Tours


Opportunities Tours

A great way to show new members of your church the opportunities where they can serve is to tour them around the church and show them each ministry in action.

 

Here are some ideas on how to provide these Serving Opportunities Tours to your New Volunteers:
1. You could establish a New Serve or New Volunteer Team.
This could be a staff or volunteer led team. This team could be responsible for assimilating all new members of your church into a serving opportunity.
2. Be sure to schedule these tours soon after your Church Membership Class.
You don’t want to leave to much time between them joining your church and when you start plugging them in to serve.
3. Schedule your Serving Opportunties Tours during a prime time where attendees can see each ministry area in action.
It’s important for them to get a good idea of what serving in a particular ministry area would be like.
4. Have passionate Hosts for the Tour and for each ministry area.
You want your Tour Guide to be outgoing, bubbly, and fun. They need to be passionate about seeing people serve in your church. Also have a designated person in each ministry area that could meet with the tour group as they come by. Have them spend a very brief time sharing the vision of their ministry area and what serving opportunities are available.
5. Respect their time.
You want these tours to visit as many ministry areas as you can, but don’t keep them there all day. Thirty minutes to an hour is plenty of time for these tours.
6. Sign them up and follow up!
It’s good to ‘strike while the irons hot’ and have them sign up for a ministry area before they leave. Don’t give them an excuse to back out. Encourage them to go ahead and plug in! Be sure to follow up that week to make sure they are clear on their next step.
7. Make sure each ministry area has a good system for plugging new volunteers into their pipeline.
You can use tools like Fellowship One or The City to make sure volunteers are being scheduled on a regular basis to serve.
These ideas can apply to your Production Team or all ministry areas in your church. How are you being intentional about showing new people to your church the serving opportunities available to them?

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CARL BARNHILL
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[twelve:thirty]media | Columbia, SC
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Carl Barnhill has served on staff at some of the largest churches and organizations in the country. He served as Media Director at Precept Ministries International, directing the television and radio program Precepts for Life with Kay Arthur, broadcasted to over 98 million homes around the world. He served as Video Production Director at Pinelake Church in Brandon, MS, where he produced media content for four campuses, as well as led volunteer teams.

He most recently served as Video Coordinator for Newspring Church in South Carolina. Newspring has 10 campuses across the state with a weekly attendance of over 35,000. At one campus alone, the number of consistent volunteers serving in media production tripled, under his leadership.

He currently serves as Creative Director and Owner of [twelve:thirty]media, a company that serves churches and ministries all over the world through motion graphics content and church media coaching.

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