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		<title>Look inward before you reach outward: make sure your church is ready for holiday and special event outreach guests</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/09/lookinward-before-you-reach-outward-make-sure-your-church-is-ready-for-holiday-and-special-event-outreach-guests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around my home and for most people I know, one thing that always accompanies the holidays or any time guests are coming is a flurry of activity—cleaning, putting up decorations, making certain the bathrooms have nice soap and towels, flowers in the guest-room perhaps, and in special cases repainting and major household repairs. With actions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to revitalize your volunteers before seasonal or special event outreach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all been there—to an event, perhaps at church, perhaps not, but one that had incredible food, fabulous decorations, and great music—but it was one that we left early because of the people. Maybe they were rude, or ignored us, or simply didn&#8217;t seem to care about anybody new so we wandered around quietly munching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recruiting Volunteers—Why and How</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2011/03/recruiting-volunteers%e2%80%94why-and-how-by-gayle-hilligoss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article by Gayle Hilligoss Ed.note: Volunteers are often essential if you want to get done the amount of communications needed for all the ministries in a church. The primary ministry assistant usually has more than enough projects in addition to the primary communication work (bulletin, newsletter, website) of the church to keep her very busy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Case Study to help you be more successful in recruiting volunteers, example a church Trunk or Treat, a Webinar On-Demand</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2010/09/a-case-study-to-help-you-be-more-successful-in-recruiting-volunteers-example-a-church-trunk-or-treat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recruiting enough volunteers is always a successful challenge for any church event and few are the churches that report they have enough. When the event takes place and there are not enough people, not only is it tiring for the staff and the volunteers that are there, but it is spiritually trying also. Why didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteer recruitment, a how-to booklet that will help you this fall and for all events</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This booklet not only goes along with the video on recruiting volunteers, but it is also an extremely useful guide for any time of the year when you need advice on how to successfully recruit volunteers. Yes, it would be wonderful if people just showed up whenever we announce we need them, but real life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clear communications help you create volunteer recruitment and retention</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/volunteer-recruitment-communications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many churches operate on what I call the 80/20 fallacy. We’ve all heard that “80 percent of the people do 20 percent of the work.” That is true in many churches, but I call it a fallacy because it does not need to be that way. We forget that statement is merely a business observation—it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communications for a good continuing relationship with your volunteers</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/communications-for-volunteers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/12/communications-for-volunteers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every church is desperate for volunteers. It&#8217;s not only important to effectively recruit them, but after they are recruited, it is equally important to work hard to keep them. Unfortunately, the difference between how we treat volunteers when we are recruiting them and after they vol­unteer is sometimes similar to the difference with some couples [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effective Volunteer Recruitment Communications Samples: advice and PDF examples</title>
		<link>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/09/effective-volunteer-recruitment-communications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/2009/09/effective-volunteer-recruitment-communications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvon Prehn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every church needs a committed and enthusiastic team of volunteers if all the ministries and needs of the church are to function as a healthy representative of the Body of Christ. Recruiting that team, training, and keeping them functioning well are some of the major responsibilities of church communicators. Following is some overall advice and [...]]]></description>
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