Volunteers:

About the Book

Volunteers: How to Get Them, How to Keep Them Your Coaching Guide to Recruiting and Retaining Them For most children’s ministries, attracting new volunteers and getting your existing volunteers to remain is a never-ending task. It is often rooted in inefficient recruiting practices, misunderstood motivational techniques, inadequate training, and high-volunteer turnover. The results: low productivity and poor performance, unhappy volunteers, and endless leadership headaches. Volunteers: How to get Them, How to keep Them offers creative approaches to effectively recruit long-lasting volunteers. And the best part? These powerful principles work! Each is presented in a bite-sized package that allows instant execution. You don’t have to invent any new step-by-step methods, concepts, or buzz words to do it! Just follow some of Ricardo’s practical wisdom keys to building an eager, willing, and fervently driven team.

About the Author

For twenty years, Ricardo Miller has actively served as an international speaker to children, parents, and children's ministry workers. His extensive exposure has propelled him into entrepreneurship, where he founded Ricardo Miller Children’s Ministries headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. He serves as family ministry pastor at Pathway of Life Church in Dallas, Texas, with membership of two thousand, where he and his wife, Isha Miller, and their son, Ricardo Jr., worship. Pastor Miller oversees the ministries pertaining to family including, men’s, women’s, married couples, young adults, youth, children’s, and nursery/preschool ministries. Pastor Ricardo lectures at Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas, in the family ministry major. He writes as a columnist for several national and international newspapers and magazines and hosts a weekly talk radio show called “Children’s Ministry Today.” Annually he serves as a consultant for dozens of churches helping graft the vision of the importance of reaching the next generation. He also mentors and coaches dozens of individuals throughout the United States, the Caribbean, and Central America. Ricardo's message inspires young people and adults alike to live their dreams and believe they were born for a purpose. Ricardo continues to be a speaker with both substance and relevance while being one of the most in-demand motivational speakers to young people and those seeking to impact the generations.