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When Your Church Outgrows Text Message Scheduling
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When Your Church Outgrows Text Message Scheduling

What to Look for When Your Church Outgrows Text Message Scheduling Your church is growing. That's excellent news. But growth brings complexity, and nowh...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland··7 min read
Organizing Volunteers on a Shoestring Budget
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Organizing Volunteers on a Shoestring Budget

How Small Churches Can Organize Volunteers Without Breaking the Budget You're sitting at your kitchen table on a Tuesday night, staring at three differe...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
When Ministries Fight Over the Same Volunteers
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When Ministries Fight Over the Same Volunteers

Why Your Worship Team and Children's Ministry Keep Fighting Over the Same Volunteers You've seen it happen. Your best greeter gets a text from the child...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
When Your Greeter Doesn't Show Up (Again)
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When Your Greeter Doesn't Show Up (Again)

What to Do When Your Greeter Doesn't Show Up (Again) You know this isn't a one-off problem. It's happened before, and unless something changes, it'll ha...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
5 Warning Signs Your Volunteer Program Is Failing
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5 Warning Signs Your Volunteer Program Is Failing

5 Warning Signs Your Volunteer Program Is Quietly Failing Your volunteer roster looks healthy. Sunday services run smoothly. The welcome team shows up. ...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
How to Stop Burning Out Your Best Volunteers
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How to Stop Burning Out Your Best Volunteers

How to Stop Burning Out Your Best Church Volunteers Your most reliable volunteers aren't going to tell you they're burning out. They'll just quietly dis...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
The Real Cost of Managing Volunteers with Spreadsheets
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The Real Cost of Managing Volunteers with Spreadsheets

The Real Cost of Managing Church Volunteers with Spreadsheets It's Sunday night. You're sitting at the kitchen table with three spreadsheets open, a hal...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
Why Your Volunteer Coordinator Is Overwhelmed
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Why Your Volunteer Coordinator Is Overwhelmed

Why Your Volunteer Coordinator Is Overwhelmed (And How to Fix It) Your volunteer coordinator is drowning. You might not see it yet, but the signs are th...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
What Actually Matters in Church Volunteer Software
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What Actually Matters in Church Volunteer Software

What Actually Matters When Choosing a Volunteer Coordination System for Churches You've seen it happen. A church committee spends three months comparing...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
Build a Volunteer Team From Zero on a Tight Budget
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Build a Volunteer Team From Zero on a Tight Budget

How to Build a Volunteer Team From Zero (Without Spending on Fancy Systems) You're planting a church with no building, no budget, and no congregation. Y...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
Build Rotations That Don't Burn Out Your Best People
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Build Rotations That Don't Burn Out Your Best People

How to Build Rotation Schedules That Don't Burn Out Your Best Volunteers You know the volunteers I'm talking about. The ones who show up every time you ...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
Track Volunteer Certifications Without the Paperwork
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Track Volunteer Certifications Without the Paperwork

How to Track Volunteer Certifications Without Drowning in Paperwork It's 10pm on Saturday night. You're sitting at your kitchen table, laptop open, scro...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
The Moment Your Church Outgrows Spreadsheets
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The Moment Your Church Outgrows Spreadsheets

The Moment Your Church Outgrows Spreadsheets (And What to Do Next) There's a moment every growing church hits. It's not dramatic. There's no alarm bell....

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
When Volunteer Coordination Takes Over Your Life
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When Volunteer Coordination Takes Over Your Life

What to Do When Volunteer Coordination Is Taking Over Your Life You're halfway through dinner when your phone buzzes. Another volunteer can't make their...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
Your First 30 Days as Volunteer Coordinator
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Your First 30 Days as Volunteer Coordinator

Your First 30 Days as Volunteer Coordinator: Where to Start When Everything's a Mess You walk in on Monday morning. There's a spreadsheet with 47 tabs, ...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
The Weekly Tasks You're Doing That Could Run Themselves
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The Weekly Tasks You're Doing That Could Run Themselves

The Weekly Tasks You're Doing Manually That Could Run on Autopilot You arrive Monday morning with good intentions. Clear the inbox. Update the bulletin....

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
Build a Volunteer Program That Scales With Vision
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Build a Volunteer Program That Scales With Vision

How to Build a Volunteer Program That Scales With Your Church's Vision You've seen it happen. Your church grows, new ministries launch, and suddenly you...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
How to Modernize Church Ops Without Losing Heart
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How to Modernize Church Ops Without Losing Heart

How to Modernize Your Church Operations Without Losing Your Heart You're sitting in front of a church management software demo. The presenter is clickin...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
How to Know Where You Actually Need More Volunteers
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How to Know Where You Actually Need More Volunteers

How to Know Where Your Church Actually Needs More Volunteers (Beyond Guessing) You've probably been there. Someone corners you after service: "We desper...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
Warning Signs Your Volunteer Program Is Collapsing
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Warning Signs Your Volunteer Program Is Collapsing

The Warning Signs That Your Volunteer Program Is About to Collapse Volunteer programs rarely collapse overnight. They deteriorate gradually, showing vis...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
Keep 50+ Volunteers Informed Without Individual Messages
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Keep 50+ Volunteers Informed Without Individual Messages

How to Keep 50+ Volunteers Informed Without Sending Individual Messages You're spending two hours every evening replying to volunteers. Same questions. ...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
The Number One Reason Volunteers Quit
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The Number One Reason Volunteers Quit

The Number One Reason Volunteers Quit (That Nobody Talks About) You've probably sat through the training. You've read the volunteer management guides. Y...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
Why Your Church Events Feel Chaotic
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Why Your Church Events Feel Chaotic

Why Your Church Events Feel Chaotic (Even With Great Volunteers) It's 9:45am on Sunday. Service starts in 15 minutes. The sound system isn't working, no...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
How to Help Your Volunteer Teams Actually Work Together
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How to Help Your Volunteer Teams Actually Work Together

How to Help Your Volunteer Teams Actually Work Together (Not Just Show Up) Picture this: Sunday morning, 8:45am. Your volunteer team arrives on time. Ev...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
Where Ministry Leaders Actually Spend Their Time
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Where Ministry Leaders Actually Spend Their Time

Where Ministry Leaders Actually Spend Their Time (And Where They Wish They Could) You open your calendar on Monday morning. Three board meetings. Two co...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
Why Your Church Grew But Your Volunteers Didn't
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Why Your Church Grew But Your Volunteers Didn't

Why Your Church Grew But Your Volunteer Team Didn't (And How to Fix It) You're looking at the attendance numbers from last month. Up again. More familie...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
How Small Churches Get Organized Without the Budget
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How Small Churches Get Organized Without the Budget

How Small Churches Get Organized Without Spending a Fortune It's Sunday morning, and your volunteer coordinator is frantically texting people because ha...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
The Real Cost of Double-Booked Rooms
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The Real Cost of Double-Booked Rooms

The Real Cost of Double-Booked Rooms and How to Eliminate Scheduling Conflicts It's 8:55am on Sunday. Your youth leader walks into the fellowship hall w...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
The Simple System to Match People to Ministry Roles
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The Simple System to Match People to Ministry Roles

The Simple System That Helps You Know Exactly Who to Call for Every Ministry Need It's Tuesday night. You need someone for Sunday's children's ministry....

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
When Your Volunteer Info Lives in 5 Different Places
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When Your Volunteer Info Lives in 5 Different Places

What to Do When Your Volunteer Coordination Happens Across 5 Different Places You know the feeling. A volunteer calls in sick twenty minutes before the ...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
How to Stop Chasing Volunteers the Day Before Service
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How to Stop Chasing Volunteers the Day Before Service

How to Stop Chasing Down Volunteers the Day Before Service You know the routine. Saturday evening arrives, and you're scrolling through your phone, send...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
Why Your Volunteer Coordination Takes 10+ Hours a Week
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Why Your Volunteer Coordination Takes 10+ Hours a Week

Why Your Volunteer Coordination Takes 10+ Hours a Week (And How to Fix It) It's Saturday night. You're halfway through dinner when your phone buzzes. An...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
When Your Volunteer Roster Lives in Three Different Places
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When Your Volunteer Roster Lives in Three Different Places

When Your Volunteer Roster Lives in Three Different Places You're probably managing your church volunteers across WhatsApp groups, a spreadsheet someone...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·
The WhatsApp Group That Finally Broke Your Worship Team
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The WhatsApp Group That Finally Broke Your Worship Team

The WhatsApp Group That Finally Broke Your Worship Team When Church Scheduling Spreadsheets and Group Chats Stop Working Photo by Kenne...

Tom Galland
Tom Galland·

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