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How Ministry Leaders Can Inspire Volunteers

August 7, 2017July 9, 2018 Tom Pounder 0 Comments coach, coaches, encouragement, inspiration, ministers, student ministry, volunteers

Volunteer leaders are essential to ministry and I have particularly felt more passionate about it lately as my job is

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How to get Specific about Honoring your Volunteers

August 2, 2017September 27, 2017 Tom Pounder 1 Comment encouragement, honor, hope, volunteers

One of the best ways to keep volunteers engaged and involved consistently is to honor them and what they do.

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Lessons from Vacation #6: Choose your Words Wisely

July 3, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments encouragement, words

Vacations are great…most of the time. Why do I say most of the time? Because, as great as it is

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“10 Ways to Focus Your Student Ministry around Volunteers this Year” Notes

April 27, 2017September 30, 2017 Tom Pounder 1 Comment encouragement, family ministry, ministry, online ministry, student ministry, volunteers

One of the You Lead pre-Orange Conference breakout sessions was lead by Ben Crawshaw and Kevin Ragdale. Both Ben and

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3 Student Ministry Blogs you should read this week 11.13

November 13, 2015October 1, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments Discipleship, discouraged, encouragement, friendships, help, new england patriots, student ministry, Support

There were 3 student ministry centric blogs that I read/had a part in that I wanted to draw your attention

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MinWrap 7.31

July 31, 2015October 16, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments church, communications, encouragement, facebook, Instagram, social media, technology, twitter, youtube

Here are some of the things you may have missed in the ministry world… Stat of the week: 74 percent of

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This is how you DON’T support your volunteers

November 24, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments encouragement, Support, volunteers

At New Life, we are blessed to have some great students that help me out Sunday mornings to set up

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Guest Post: Get your own oxygen mask on

June 26, 2014February 28, 2020 Tom Pounder 0 Comments encouragement, growth, Leadership, spiritual growth, Training, volunteer leaders

This post is from regular guest poster Mark Seager, Associate Pastor at Cedar Run Community Church and a really good

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the Monday Morning Debrief: Now what?

April 1, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments easter, encouragement, following up, good friday, jesus, leaders, Strategy, vision, youth group

So, Easter has happened and tons of new people (or just the yearly Easter service goers) have come to your

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Encouragement Emails

February 15, 2013November 13, 2015 Tom Pounder 0 Comments Christ, devotional, Emails, encouragement, satan

This is not a new idea as I heard about it from a friend a while ago, but do you

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