Live Blog From Double Conference: 20 Leadership Quotes From Sherry Moorhead And Amy Bagwell

In an effort to add maximum value to pastors and church leaders, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend the Double Conference at NewSpring Church.  During the next two days, I will be bringing some of the top leadership lessons from the conference designed to challenge and equip pastors and church leaders to double in weekly attendance.

This afternoon’s second breakout session was conducted by Amy Bagwell and Sherry Moorhead who taught How To Help Your Volunteers Be Successful.  The following are 20 leadership quotes and lessons from this incredibly helpful session:

1. If you didn’t sing or rock babies, there just wasn’t a lot to do at our church (that I grew up in) – Sherry
2. How do you get people to serve?  When’s the last time you asked somebody to serve? – Sherry
3. There is something to the visual side of God’s love that helps people believe what they hear from the stage. – Sherry
4. The best way for you to realize your gift is to just get involved. – Sherry
5. The church takes on the personality of every single person who’s serving. – Sherry
6. The sermon starts in the parking lot. – Sherry
7. We don’t use the word “need”.  We have “opportunities” for you to serve. – Sherry
8. It’s always people over process but you do have to have the process to love the people. – Sherry
9. None of us on this staff have a clue what we’re doing. – Sherry
10. The last thing we want is to have people serving but not enjoy it. – Amy
11. Opportunities Tour – for someone who doesn’t know where they want to serve.  The big on-ramps are Guest Services, Next Steps, Fuse (students), KidsSpring and Production. – Amy
12. With growth comes change. – Sherry
13. If people are serving, the Lord is revealing gifts they never knew they had. – Sherry
14. The first to do when you care for volunteers is to love them. – Amy
15. Some of loving them is having tough conversations. – Amy
16. The best way to lead volunteers and care about your volunteers is to be intentional in everything you do to build relationships with your volunteers. – Sherry
17. Equipping is so much more than saying, “Hey usher, here’s a flashlight to help people to their seats.” – Sherry
18. Equipping is creating structures to allow you love your teams. – Sherry
19. We have to constantly break things down so the Lord can build it up. – Sherry
20. We want to set teams up well so relationships can be built. – Sherry

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