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My Question: Giving Time Instead of Money

Nov 1, 2009By Karen Kogler

Questions to Talk About A reader sent me a link to a slate.com article, “Thou Shalt Be Debt Free,” in which a columnist who advises on ethical living answered a woman’s question on whether she should reduce or eliminate herRead more…

Nov 1, 2009Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Sacred and Secular Volunteering

Aug 26, 2009By Karen Kogler

In the United States, 26% of the population volunteers.* More people (36%**) volunteer through faith-based organizations (churches, synagogues and mosques) than any other type of organization. The remaining 64% of volunteers work for a variety of community organizations: schools andRead more…

Aug 26, 2009Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Screwtape Writes on Church Volunteers?

Apr 22, 2009By Karen Kogler

In his popular book The Screwtape Letters, author C.S. Lewis imagined an experienced devil named Screwtape writing letters to advise his young nephew Wormwood on how to move people toward hell and away from their enemy, God. One day IRead more…

Apr 22, 2009Karen Kogler 0 Comments

What can I do? I’m just a volunteer.

Sep 29, 2008By Karen Kogler

“Our church really needs help. We just keep trying harder to recruit volunteers and it isn’t getting better. I think equipping people to serve is a great idea and would really help. But our leaders don’t ‘get it.’ And whatRead more…

Sep 29, 2008Karen Kogler 0 Comments

How to Discourage your Church’s Volunteers

Apr 28, 2008By Karen Kogler

(From the Lutheran Witness, March 1998. Reprinted with permission. Print version. Imagine your church with no volunteers for one week. The organist may play the organ, but there are no choir members or other instrumentalists. Everyone eventually finds a worshipRead more…

Apr 28, 2008Karen Kogler 2 comments

Our Father Lutheran: A Commitment

Mar 28, 2008By Karen Kogler

How Our Father Lutheran Invites Members into Ministry, part 1 A Commitment to Connecting People “We have several strong women in charge of member integration.” That’s how Margaret Hinchey, Minister of Music at Our Father Lutheran Church in Centennial, Colorado,Read more…

Mar 28, 2008Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Volunteer Ministry Entrepreneurship

Feb 23, 2008By Karen Kogler

Rich Kirkpatrick related (in an article no longer on the internet as of 2014) an incident that occurred when he attended a conference at Saddleback, Pastor Rick Warren’s mega-church in southern California. At a nearby coffee shop he met anRead more…

Feb 23, 2008Karen Kogler 0 Comments

What is Equipping?

Jan 1, 2008By Karen Kogler

Want to understand the basics of equipping? Want an easy way to share those basics with others? These materials introduce the idea of equipping people to serve, and on the difference between a focus on recruiting volunteers and focus onRead more…

Jan 1, 2008Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Governance Change . . . Volunteerism Change?

Nov 28, 2007By Karen Kogler

Many churches these days are changing their governance, moving from a structure of boards and committees to a policy-based governance related to John Carver’s model. Before such a momentous change, leaders carefully consider its ramifications. But one ramification often isRead more…

Nov 28, 2007Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Profile, Cross Lutheran Church, part 2: Comments

Nov 1, 2007By Karen Kogler

See also Part 1 of this profile. Part 2: Comments from participants at Cross About the Network class: “The process was negative to me in the beginning. Why did I have to go to classes? I was LCMS! I kindaRead more…

Nov 1, 2007Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Profile of an Equipping Church: Cross Lutheran Church, Yorkville, Illinois

Nov 1, 2007By Karen Kogler

Cross Lutheran equips saints for service by providing many avenues to connect people to serving opportunities, and by emphasizing discipleship-faith in action-rather than membership. Connecting opportunities are coordinated by: Mary Pat Bretthauer, Director of Connect Ministries; mbretthauer@hiscross.org Her responsibilities: TheRead more…

Nov 1, 2007Karen Kogler 0 Comments

How Healthy are We?

Oct 1, 2007By Karen Kogler

“How Healthy is Volunteerism in our Church?” — a survey Survey Instructions Survey for Volunteers Survey for Non-Volunteers

Oct 1, 2007Karen Kogler 0 Comments

The Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership

May 6, 2007By Karen Kogler

Can the right hand learn from the left hand how to use one of its greatest resources? God’s right-hand kingdom, Martin Luther said, is the kingdom of grace and the Gospel, in which we are given his undeserved love andRead more…

May 6, 2007Karen Kogler 0 Comments

Conversation Starters

Apr 6, 2007By Karen Kogler

Start a conversation about volunteering/working for the Lord. What do people really think about serving? What good and bad experiences have they had? What would they really like to do? We’re often too busy ‘doing,’ and too caught up inRead more…

Apr 6, 2007Karen Kogler 0 Comments

How to Improve Volunteerism

Dec 10, 2006By Karen Kogler

Do you agree? Virtually all church leaders want to improve volunteerism at their church. Virtually all church leaders do little or nothing to improve volunteerism at their church. Perhaps those statements are a bit strong, but they are true inRead more…

Dec 10, 2006Karen Kogler 0 Comments
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