Church facility management is very similar to managing any other type of building or campus. The only difference being churches often use volunteer labor to help get the job done.
This approach provides volunteers with opportunities to give back to the ministry and allows the church to maintain its campus with a limited church budget.
Churches can be very busy campuses with activities going on almost daily.
Planning events to thank and show appreciation to volunteers can be fun and rewarding.
The trick is to be organized in the planning and strategic in the delivery.
Whether you are planning a training event, an appreciation dinner, new volunteer orientation or a volunteer recruitment fair – the planning model should be the same and include the same basic elements.
Most ministries are really good at planning, gathering volunteers and hosting church sponsored events.
There are always things that are learned when facilitating a church event and taking those valuable tidbits of information and using them to improve the next event is a great way to be continually improving your events.
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