15 Ways to Recognize and Honor Church Volunteers

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It’s impressive.

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Of all of the stuff that we have to choose from.

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Because we actually do, when we’re not together doing podcasts, we do email each other when we come up with an idea.

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We do that. But generally what happens is they’re just on our iPhones and we’re like trying to … which one …?

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We don’t.

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Actually, I’m going to turn this in for my D.Min. Project. This is my D.Min. Project right here.

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Before we started, Clifton says, look, let’s just take them out of the binder and scatter them around on the floor because that’s how we normally do it.

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That’s how we normally do it. But yeah, this is my D.Min. Project. All right.

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You got the money? We got the D.Min. Okay.

Dan Hurst:

We’re going back to our buddy Chuck Lawless for this one.

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I’m old.

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Mark Clifton:

Yeah, wouldn’t hurt at this age. Okay.

Mark Hallock:

Here all week, folks.

Dan Hurst:

15 ways to recognize and honor church volunteers.

I love what Chuck says. “Look,” he said, “over my years of studying churches I watch for ways they recognize and honor volunteers,” who are the people who faithfully serve. And he comes up with some of these ideas and we’ll mention maybe all of these and probably come up with a few of our own, but I want to start off real quickly, and this may not be the place to bring this up. If it is, then Clifton, you correct me, which I’m sure you will.

Mark Clifton:

I do anyway.

Dan Hurst:

We have to be real careful between understanding the difference between volunteers and ministries, yes?

Mark Clifton:

Yes.

Dan Hurst:

It seems to me that we tend to say a volunteer is a, that’s your ministry. And it may be, but it may not be your ministry. Volunteers, for example, is picking up all of the bulletins from the pews after the service. Is that a ministry?

Mark Clifton:

Yeah. Or someone who agrees they’re going to get there early, make sure the house and the church is unlocked and ready to go.

Dan Hurst:

Yeah.

Mark Clifton:

And someone to make sure that the filters have been changed in the furnace. Someone’s got to do those things in a small church.

Dan Hurst:

And those are your volunteers.

Mark Hallock:

I would say though, but I would say Lawless may have those in mind, but I think he also has-

Mark Clifton:

It’s both and.

Mark Hallock:

It’s both and. I think he’s also thinking folks who are doing ministry as volunteers, if that makes sense. I don’t think it’s just pick up a board.

Mark Clifton:

Let’s just say people who are serving. Basically.

Mark Hallock:

They’re serving. Yeah. Folks who are serving in your church.

Mark Clifton:

And it’s easy … and some people, here’s the problem. Some people don’t ever want to be acknowledged. They don’t ever want to be made much of, and they just want to do it. But there are other people that for a variety … we’re all different and they really flourish when they get a positive word. We’re not trying to manipulate them or make them into heroes or make much of them rather than making much of Jesus. We’re not trying to do that. We’re just trying to be nice.

Mark Hallock:

Trying to be an encourager.

Dan Hurst:

Well, I mean, the Bible tells us that we are to be encouragers.

Mark Hallock:

That’s right. Exactly. That’s what we’re doing.

Dan Hurst:

And so doing this is an encouragement. I mean, we’re doing something that God wants us to do.

Mark Hallock:

Well, and I’ll tell you this, if you don’t. If you don’t honor and encourage your volunteers, they’re not going to stick around really. That’s just the truth.

Mark Clifton:

This is how you create a culture of volunteerism and ministry that is positive and affirming rather than is guilt ridden.

Mark Hallock:

Yes, exactly.

Dan Hurst:

I think it’s important. I really do. I try to do this every service. Find somebody that I can celebrate as a volunteer.

Mark Hallock:

That’s good.

Dan Hurst:

They’re doing something, “Hey, did you know So-and-so does this?”

Mark Hallock:

That’s awesome.

Dan Hurst:

We really appreciate that. Just celebrate.

Mark Hallock:

That’s so great.

Dan Hurst:

That’s something to celebrate as a body. So let’s talk about these.

Mark Clifton:

Number one, I like this, some sort of commissioning at the beginning of the year, making a big deal and praying over those specific volunteer ministry leaders and things like that. I think that’s really important to do that upfront.

Mark Hallock:

I love that, man.

Mark Clifton:

Make that clear that we’re going to pray for all of our children’s workers. “Y’all come up here this morning. We’re going to pray for all of you.”

Mark Hallock:

That’s really good.

Mark Clifton:

“And you’ve got some folks who really take care of the building. So this Sunday, would you guys come up here and we’re going to pray.” That kind of thing is really important.

Mark Hallock:

Number two. Write thank you notes.

Mark Clifton:

Handwritten.

Mark Hallock:

Dude, go old school, man.

Mark Clifton:

Go old school.

Mark Hallock:

I mean, how many handwritten notes have you guys gotten in the last few months?

Mark Clifton:

I just left Istrouma as their interim for 15 or 16 months. And the last Sunday I was there, Jill came with me and they had a basket there. It was like our 50th wedding anniversary or something. They had a basket there, people drop cards in the basket. And so we get home and we open them up and there’s all kinds of handwritten notes on those cards. And some people did handwritten letters in that. And then the last couple of days we got some in the mail. That church has a culture of loving its pastors. And I got to thinking, Hallock, when was the last time somebody hand wrote a note to me? I don’t mean just their name. I mean quite a bit. I get emails, I get texts all the time. There’s something about their actual handwriting that they actually did it and they actually mailed it.

I think if you’ll hand write a note to your volunteers as a pastor and send it in the mail, it just shows a lot of intentionality. It’s special.

Mark Hallock:

Oh, my gosh. Oh, man.

Dan Hurst:

By the way, when I went to First Independence, I hand wrote a note to every member that wasn’t attending.

Mark Clifton:

Really?

Dan Hurst:

Yep. Every one of them. It took me two weeks.

Mark Clifton:

Did you just scold them for not being there?

Dan Hurst:

Yeah. I tell them, “Where are you and where’s your tithe?”

Mark Clifton:

No, I’m sorry. That’s a good idea.

Dan Hurst:

But you know what? It was amazing how many of them responded to that. And we’ve seen some of those folks come back.

Mark Hallock:

Oh, yeah.

Dan Hurst:

I think that kind of connection is like you say, it’s when was the last time that you got a handwritten note?

Mark Hallock:

I know. I know.

Mark Clifton:

Yeah. And by the way, I say this all the time, you got widows in your church, find out when their wedding anniversary would’ve been and be sure you and your wife send them a note on their wedding anniversary.

Dan Hurst:

Good point. Good point.

Mark Hallock:

That’s great. All right. Here’s another one. How about give them a coffee gift certificate? Who doesn’t want that, right?

Mark Clifton:

Yeah, just something from one of the coffee shops. Just let them know you care about them, you think about them.

Mark Hallock:

Just simple.

Mark Clifton:

Simple.

Mark Hallock:

I’ll tell you when I feel loved. Everybody in my church knows I love Chipotle. It’s my favorite spot.

Mark Clifton:

You and my wife.

Mark Hallock:

And I’ll tell you what, man, I’ll get these little gift cards with just a little note. It means the world to me. You know what I mean? I just feel loved. I want to do that for-

Dan Hurst:

And Chipotle loves it too.

Mark Hallock:

Oh yeah, they do love it. That’s true.

Dan Hurst:

By the way, aren’t they a sponsor of the broadcast?

Mark Hallock:

They should be. They should be.

Dan Hurst:

We should trade out.

Mark Clifton:

Should be Diet Coke. Should be a sponsor.

Dan Hurst:

Diet Coke, yes.

Mark Hallock:

How about this? How about providing childcare for a date night? Most volunteers will appreciate the opportunity to spend a night out with their spouse. I mean, these folks are giving, giving, giving. They’re serving, serving, serving. How cool?

Mark Clifton:

Especially for your children’s workers.

Mark Hallock:

Yeah.

Mark Clifton:

Lot of your children’s workers have children, right? Work in the nursery, work in the young children’s ministry or the youth ministry. Man, to make sure you give them at least once a year, you have a parents’ night out, you let all your children’s workers go do something. I think that’s really important. Good idea.

Mark Hallock:

That’s great. Okay. Ready for the next one?

Mark Clifton:

Yeah, I’m ready.

Mark Hallock:

This is cool. If you’re not doing this, you need to do this. Cater or if you don’t want to do cater, get somebody to do it. But a volunteer-

Mark Clifton:

That is what catering means, Mark.

Mark Hallock:

Well, what I mean is if you don’t have money, what I’m seeing is the moment I say cater.

Mark Clifton:

Cater or get somebody else to do it.

Mark Hallock:

I’m thinking about guy who says, dude, we have no money to cater.

Mark Clifton:

Oh, I get you.

Mark Hallock:

That’s what I was saying. Find somebody. So, however you want to do it.

Dan Hurst:

So you get the volunteers to throw their own-

Mark Hallock:

Cater of five volunteers to put on a meal for themselves. That’s really what I’m trying to say.

Mark Clifton:

You guys go ahead.

Mark Hallock:

The payoff will be worth it.

Mark Clifton:

You guys go ahead and do it. Do something nice for yourselves. Get you something nice.

Mark Hallock:

Get yourself real nice there, Clark.

Mark Clifton:

Get you something nice, Clark. Something for you.

Mark Hallock:

Here’s what I was trying to say. I’ll use cater then cater. Find the money. Cater a volunteer appreciation meal. Do a special night for them, man. Treat them to dinner, get them some gift, celebrate stories, do a slideshow, show them the ways that God has used them over the course of the year. Make it a thing. Once a year, just do a big, we love you. We’re thankful for you.

Mark Clifton:

That’s for everybody. Your Sunday school workers.

Mark Hallock:

Everybody.

Mark Clifton:

Everybody.

Mark Hallock:

Everybody, man.

Mark Clifton:

Totally. 100%.

Dan Hurst:

One of the blessings of doing that too altogether is that they get to see how many people are actually doing that sort of thing within their-

Mark Hallock:

Exactly. It blows you away. Yeah. That’s right. How many people are-

Dan Hurst:

And it encourages them to know that they’re not out there by themselves.

Mark Hallock:

Exactly.

Mark Clifton:

The next one’s kind of unusual. It has a volunteer of the week. I know you have a deacon of the week sometimes, or a weak deacon, as my dad used to call it, but nonetheless.

Dan Hurst:

A weekly deacon.

A weekly deacon.

Mark Clifton:

A week deacon. But a volunteer of the week. I could see that. I could also see it maybe a little bit, I don’t know, Chuck, that’s a good idea, but what if I don’t get selected?

Mark Hallock:

Well, I know that’s the problem.

Mark Clifton:

Got to be careful about that.

Mark Hallock:

They’re waiting to get their name up and stick.

Mark Clifton:

Yeah. I’m not sure, but I think I know what he means.

Mark Hallock:

Yeah.

Mark Clifton:

Number seven, birthday cards, real important.

Mark Hallock:

Volunteers.

Mark Clifton:

Real important. I have the best of intention. But following through has never been one of my strengths. I’m an idea guy.

Dan Hurst:

Oh, here we go.

Mark Hallock:

I don’t really follow through on stuff.

Mark Clifton:

So Matt’s over here. Matt is given the responsibility on our team of managing me as well as other things. So we have 14 people on our team. So I asked Matt one time to put all the birthdays and anniversary of our team members on my calendar, which he did.

Mark Hallock:

And he did.

Mark Clifton:

And so the other day, my wife’s looking at my calendar and she goes, “Who are all these birthdays and anniversaries?”

I said, “Those are our team members.”

She said, “What are you doing with them?”

I said, “Nothing.” Originally, I was going to send them cards on their birthday and anniversary.

Mark Hallock:

Had a great vision.

Mark Clifton:

So if you’re on our team and you’re listening, just consider this happy birthday and happy anniversary.

Mark Hallock:

Here’s what I will say. This will help you out too, Clifton.

Mark Clifton:

Okay.

Mark Hallock:

If you’re not going to get a card, if you’re not going to do that, send them at least a text. Just say, “Man, I appreciate you. I’m so grateful.” Listen, that goes a long way too.

Mark Clifton:

It does.

Mark Hallock:

Or even just a phone call, leave a voicemail.

Mark Clifton:

Right. But in all seriousness, I failed. I did.

I had a good heart, but a good idea.

Mark Hallock:

Great heart.

Mark Clifton:

But if you would get some cards and seriously send anniversary, birthday cards to your volunteers, that would be really important.

Mark Hallock:

And were your parents. I mean, I think about my parents and my grandparents, they were note writers, man.

Dan Hurst:

Oh, yeah.

Mark Hallock:

Everything they hand wrote.

Dan Hurst:

Well, I mean, back there, if we didn’t have email or text or anything.

Mark Hallock:

Oh, that’s true. I thought you had the only option.

Okay. A couple more guys. So what about this? What about sending a thank you note from the church staff to the volunteer’s spouse?

Mark Clifton:

Send that note from you and your wife.

Mark Hallock:

To the volunteer spouse.

Mark Clifton:

Yeah, right.

Mark Hallock:

You know what I mean?

Mark Clifton:

Right. Well, if the spouse is a female and you’re the pastor-

Mark Hallock:

Well, there you go.

Mark Clifton:

Then I want you to send that. If you’ve got a deacon or a finance committee chairperson or whatever, a man in your church, he has to be gone many nights of the week.

Mark Hallock:

That’s a sacrifice.

Mark Clifton:

It is. And so send a note and say, “Hey, Jill and I want to thank you, Karen-

Mark Hallock:

Yeah. That’s really good. That’s real good.

Mark Clifton:

… for allowing your husband,” but be sure you do it … anytime guys, you send a note to some woman in your church if you ever have to for whatever reason, then you be careful about that. Always make sure it’s the two of you.

Mark Hallock:

Yeah. Lawless-

Mark Clifton:

Maybe if you’re not thanking her specifically for something, then send it to both of them.

Dan Hurst:

And really your wife should sign it also.

Mark Clifton:

That’s right.

Dan Hurst:

Yeah.

Mark Clifton:

Exactly.

Mark Hallock:

Well, Lawless just, here’s the main point. Most of us could not do all we do were it not for spouses who support us, walk beside us and sacrifice for us. That’s the truth. And it’s true for our volunteers.

Mark Clifton:

Well, actually, again, back to years ago when I worked for Kansas and Nebraska State Convention, whenever somebody would come out from one of the national agencies to serve us for a day or two or longer, my executive director, Peck, would always send a note to that person’s wife and say, “Our convention is thankful that you let your husband come and spend time with us.” And then even about halfway through my interim with Istrouma, since I was gone on weekends, they sent some flowers to Jill and thanked her for letting her, letting me. So that really is a powerful kind of thing. Absolutely.

Mark Hallock:

That’s sweet. That’s really cool.

Dan Hurst:

Absolutely.

Mark Hallock:

Okay. How about celebrate with a volunteer family picnic?

Dan Hurst:

Or you could have them cater it.

Mark Hallock:

You could, you could. I’ve got an idea for you volunteers. You guys put on a picnic for yourself and you enjoy that. We love you.

Dan Hurst:

Actually, the whole church could do something like that and then just recognize your volunteers.

Mark Clifton:

That’s right. Yeah. Have a picnic, a church picnic, and make it in honor of all the volunteers.

Mark Hallock:

Here’s one. This is interesting. Lawless man, he comes up with all kinds of stuff. Enlist a photographer to take a family photo for each volunteer. Many families never take the time to take pictures together. Encourage them to do so with this gift.

Mark Clifton:

Good idea. I like that.

Mark Hallock:

That’s a cool idea.

Dan Hurst:

It is a good idea.

Mark Clifton:

Yeah. I like that.

Mark Hallock:

What’s the next one? Number 11.

Mark Clifton:

Sponsor a Christmas in August or Christmas in pick the month stocking stuffer event. You decide the month and do something different. Give them a Christmas gift in the middle of the year or something like that.

Mark Hallock:

That’s a cool idea.

Mark Clifton:

Yeah, just whatever. And stick it full of notes and gifts and little things. Just a little gift bag is what we’re trying to say.

Mark Hallock:

Yep. Yep.

Dan Hurst:

But include little notes and the notes of appreciation. It’s not just getting a candy bag.

Mark Hallock:

Yeah, totally. Well, this is what he says is. This is actually really practically helpful. Call two to three volunteers a week.

Mark Clifton:

Yeah.

Mark Hallock:

Put that in your phone. A handwritten note is great, but a phone call would be even better because they could hear you. And again, we’ve talked about this before because a lot of people don’t answer their phones anymore, but they cannot escape the old, what is that thing? You can record and send it as a text. And just, man, they can hear your voice. “I’m so thankful for you, man. The way you love kids, the way you love your family. You’re a blessing to this church.” That means the world to people.

Dan Hurst:

I actually, one of the things that I like doing, I call it a voicemail ministry. I love calling and leaving voicemail.

Mark Hallock:

Yeah, it’s great.

Dan Hurst:

And even prayer, just pray. It’s a voicemail prayer.

Mark Hallock:

Good. Amen. That’s right. I do that a lot with people who are going through a crisis or somebody’s died and they’re probably not going to answer their phone. They’re busy dealing with stuff like that.

Mark Clifton:

Well, if they died, they’re not going to answer.

Dan Hurst:

Yeah. And you wonder why they’re not answering, and it’s like, “How come you never pick up the phone? Oh, you died? Sorry.”

Mark Clifton:

We’ve been doing these too long.

Mark Hallock:

That is cool. I love that idea.

Mark Clifton:

Dan Hurst.

Dan Hurst:

You should try that, Hallock.

Mark Hallock:

Leave calls for people who’ve died.

Mark Clifton:

Because they don’t care one-on-one.

Dan Hurst:

I’m not taking them off the roll.

Mark Clifton:

Oh, I like this though. Have children create pictures and send them to teachers or leaders. That is so true. There’s nothing quite like that. We’ve all pastored long enough that we’ve had some kid give us a picture they drew of us.

Mark Hallock:

Oh, yeah.

Mark Clifton:

Right. And that means a lot.

Mark Hallock:

It does.

Dan Hurst:

I’ve got one on my door right now.

Mark Hallock:

I’ve got a stack right on my desk.

Mark Clifton:

Yeah.

Mark Hallock:

I love those.

Mark Clifton:

So having kids, just ask some kids, “Would you draw a picture of your teacher and give it to them?” That kind of thing. What?

Dan Hurst:

No, I think just how entertaining that is.

Mark Clifton:

Yeah, that’s true.

Dan Hurst:

They love that.

Mark Hallock:

I think you should draw pictures yourself of volunteers-

Mark Clifton:

I could do that.

Mark Hallock:

… and give it to them.

Dan Hurst:

Yeah. Why don’t you draw one of us?

Mark Hallock:

Give me little Lego figures or something.

Mark Clifton:

That’s true.

Dan Hurst:

We could post that. That would be. Yeah, Lego. It had to be one that was already bought.

Mark Hallock:

We got two more, guys. Two more.

Mark Clifton:

Good because I didn’t think this podcast was ever going to end.

Mark Hallock:

How about enlist the volunteer appreciation team who continually think about ways to say thanks.

Mark Clifton:

Okay, but this is a little confusing.

Dan Hurst:

Because they’re volunteers.

Mark Clifton:

Chuck, I love you, but you want me to enlist a team of volunteers to thank my volunteers.

Mark Hallock:

That’s right.

Mark Clifton:

Then I got to enlist a team of volunteers to thank the team of volunteers who thank the team of volunteers.

Mark Hallock:

And on and on and goes.

Dan Hurst:

Just make it another committee, church committee, if you can find a chair.

Mark Clifton:

I know what he means.

Mark Hallock:

Here’s number 15.

Mark Clifton:

Here’s what he means. He means besides yourself.

Mark Hallock:

That’s right.

Mark Clifton:

Pick some specific people that will help you do some good volunteer recognition.

Mark Hallock:

Well, and the other thing that he’s noting here, which is true, is some people have the gift of encouragement.

Mark Clifton:

That is true.

Mark Hallock:

They’re actually, they would love to do it.

Mark Clifton:

They would love to put gift bags together. They would love to do …

Dan Hurst:

And some of your older folks, they would love to be kind of in charge of-

Mark Hallock:

Just for what it’s worth, we have our oldest church member, Maria Lana. This is her ministry. Every week she texts me and says, “Who can I be praying for?” And she sends a note to different pastors and leaders. I’m praying for you. She loves it.

Dan Hurst:

Oh, that’s awesome.

Mark Hallock:

That’s her ministry.

Number 15, guys, last one. And this is obvious, but it’s so important. Always be praying for your volunteers, praying for more laborers. That’s what Jesus taught us to do. Simply knowing that the church has prayed for them, is praying for them is huge. So we need to be praying.

Dan Hurst:

And letting them know that.

Mark Hallock:

And let them know that.

Dan Hurst:

Yep.

Mark Hallock:

Yep. Yep. We love you. We’re praying for you. We’re grateful for you.

Dan Hurst:

Yeah. And I think the whole idea, if somebody knows that I’m praying for them by name, and I’ll tell them, “I prayed for you by name.” I think that’s so important. It’s easy to say, “Well, I’m praying for you guys.” That’s a general prayer. But if I’m praying for that person by name, there’s just something really. There’s a connection there that they value.

Mark Hallock:

Absolutely. Yep.

Dan Hurst:

Well, there you have it.

Mark Hallock:

We actually would have got proof.

Mark Clifton:

We got through the 15. We got through the 15. There’s probably more than 50.

Dan Hurst:

Yeah.

Mark Hallock:

Oh, yeah. There’s a bunch.

Mark Clifton:

Guys, be intentional.

Mark Hallock:

That’s the whole point.

Mark Clifton:

And purposeful.

Mark Hallock:

Be intentional.

Mark Clifton:

And follow through, like I didn’t, with good affirmation of your volunteers.

Mark Hallock:

Take care of them. Love them.

Mark Clifton:

Love them and take care of them.

Mark Hallock:

That’s right. Encourage them.

Mark Clifton:

Create that culture in your church and you will have more volunteers the more you do.

Mark Hallock:

Exactly.

Dan Hurst:

So there you go. Thank you to Chuck for writing the little blog.

Mark Clifton:

Tell you what. Let’s all send Chuck a handwritten note. Thanking him.

Dan Hurst:

Now let’s get some volunteers.

Mark Clifton:

We’ll get some volunteers.

Mark Hallock:

It’s a great idea.

Mark Clifton:

Then we can cater a meal for Chuck.

Dan Hurst:

Hey, Matt McNaughton. Would you send him a note?

Mark Hallock:

Chuck, we want you to cater a meal for yourself. You deserve it. You deserve it, Chuck.

Mark Clifton:

Go ahead, Chuck. Cater a meal for yourself.

Mark Hallock:

You got it. Order yourself some nice brisket.

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