Faith-based Service

Books on this topic

Articles and excerpts on this topic:

• Essential Elements in a Parish-wide Recruitment Campaign, by the Diocese of Green Bay, WI
• Keys to Effective Service Celebrations, from the book The Starter Kit for Mobilizing Volunteer Ministry
• Leading Volunteers, by Nancy Beach
• Mastering Volunteer Management, An interview with John Pearson from Church Volunteer Central (2009)
• Setting the Tone, from the book The Church Puzzle Game
• Taking the First Step: Understanding Volunteer Screening, PDF booklet from Volunteer Canada, explaining the rationale for and steps in screening faith community volunteers
• A Title Without a Purpose, from the book The Equipping Church
• Volunteerism and Religion: A Midwestern U.S. Perspective by Paula Beugen and Jay Tcath for USIA (1998)
• Volunteerism in Islam, by Dr. Ahmad Hussein Sakr (another article by the same author)
• Volunteers and the Jewish Classroom, from the Union of American Hebrew Congregations Web site
• What Can We Do about It? The Tools, from the book How to Mobilize Church Volunteers

Web sites with useful articles on this topic:

Children's Ministry

http://www.childrensministry.com/

All about working with children through church activities, including Sunday School curricula.  Has a section on volunteer management.  Free site, but requires registration.  

ChristianVolunteering.org Training Materials

http://christianvolunteering.org/register.do?method=showTraining

Run through Urban Ministry's TechMission, this site offers a variety of free training materials for faith-based volunteers and program managers, including PowerPoint shows, videos, Webcasts, and templates.  Especially see their "Encyclopedia of Volunteer Management, Volunteering, and Short-Term Missions" for a very long list of articles and other documents.

Church Volunteer Central

http://www.churchvolunteercentral.com/

Site of the International Association for Church Volunteer Leaders, providing many resources for paid members, free samples, and a free weekly e-newsletter, "Tuesday's Tips."

Directors of Church Volunteer Ministries in Minnesota

http://www.dcvm.org/

A state network for leaders of lay ministry with information on position descriptions and salaries, volunteer gift assessment, inspirational quotes and stories.

El Camino Real Episcopal Diocese

http://www.ecrweb.org/f/CongregSupt-Volunteers-Jun2004.pdf

"Volunteers – finding them, keeping them, caring for them!" (PDF)

The Equipper

http://www.theequipper.org/

A site for those who “lead church volunteers and want to improve volunteerism in their church.” Filled with free resources, including PowerPoint presentations, training activities, and a free monthly e-newsletter.

Faith and Voluntary Action

http://www.ivr.org.uk/faithreport.htm

Summary of study by the Institute for Volunteering Research, UK.

Faith and Service Technical Education Network

http://www.fastennetwork.org

Offers networking opportunities and informational resources for faith-based practitioners, private philanthropists, and public administrators seeking to collaborate effectively to renew urban communities.

FASTEN Volunteer Toolkit: Practical Equipment for Effective Volunteer Management

http://www.urbanministry.org/wiki/volunteer-toolkit-practical-equipment-effective-volunteer-management

The Faith and Service Technical Education Network (FASTEN) offers informational resources to faith-based practitioners, private philanthropies, and public administrators who seek to collaborate effectively to renew urban communities.  This area of the site offers many volunteer management tools.

J-Serve

http://www.jserve.org

J-Serve is a single day on which Jewish teens across the country perform acts of community service in conjunction with Youth Service America’s Global Youth Service Day.

Ministry Tools Resource Center

http://mintools.com/church-volunteers-placement.htm

Pointers for placing church volunteers into ministry, including tools for assessment, profiling, and recruitment.

Spark: The Center for Jewish Service Learning at the Jewish Funds for Justice

http://www.jewishjustice.org/

To inspire a commitment to service as an important expression of Jewish identity.  Site focuses on volunteer resources and service-learning from a Jewish perspective, explaining how to apply religious concepts of service.

STAR:  Synagogue Transformation and Renewal - Volunteer Engagement

http://www.starsynagogue.org/VolunteerEngagement/

Titled "Volunteers:  The Heartbeat of the Synagogue," this section of the STAR Web site offers a variety of articles and resources.

Synagogue Social Action Resource Guide

http://www.juf.org/tov/section1.asp

A six-section guide from the Jewish United Fund of Chicago to engaging volunteers in many synagogue service projects.

Volunteer Management Capacity in America’s Charities and Congregations: A Briefing Report

http://www.urban.org/publications/410963.html

2004 study by the Urban Institute, UPS Foundation, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the USA Freedom Corps (34 page PDF).

Volunteer Spot

http://www.volunteerspot.com

Free site designed to enable anyone to quickly mobilize, coordinate , and schedule volunteers in their community, congregation and social network to accomplish projects more easily.

Youth Worker: The Contemporary Journal for Youth Ministry
http://www.youthspecialties.com/articles/Youthworker/

Articles for and by youth in faith-based settings, with emphasis on topics related to volunteering, organizational relationships, and leadership.

Relevant Hot Topic essays:

• Faith-Based Initiatives: What Might This Mean? - July '01

 

For information on this topic specifically relating to the Australasian region please visit our friends at OzVPM :

http://www.ozvpm.com/resourcebank/resource_faithbased.htm

2/20/09

 

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