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Course
Discipling Your Volunteers
~16 Hours
In the course Discipling Your Volunteers, youth leaders will learn practical insights into finding, vetting, training, and celebrating the best volunteers for their youth ministry, all while inviting them to encounter Jesus through their service.
3 instructors
About This Course
Did you know that underlying the practical insights and wisdom on how to recruit, care for, and retain great volunteers for your youth ministry is theology? It’s a theology that believes you invite volunteers to encounter Jesus through their service. In the course Discipling Your Volunteers, you’ll discover the guiding principle that youth discipleship depends on volunteer discipleship. From there, you’ll learn practical insights into finding, vetting, training, and celebrating the best volunteers for your youth ministry. Join youth ministry experts from the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI), Dr. Chuck Hunt and Dr. Steve Argue, in this holistic course as they share their experience and research to help you create a youth ministry volunteer family and empower them to journey with the teens in your ministry for the long haul.
Learning Outcomes
- Articulate the importance of volunteer ministry leaders in youth ministry and how to lead them well
- Develop a contextualized plan of recruiting, vetting, equipping, and celebrating your volunteers
This course counts towards the Certificate in Youth Discipleship.
Created in partnership with the Fuller Youth Institute and FULLER Equip.
- Volunteer Training
- Administration
- Professional Training
- Leadership
- Church & Ministry
Introduction
1. Getting Started
Youth Discipleship Depends on Volunteer Discipleship
2. Theology of Volunteering
3. Impact of Volunteering
Building a Team of Volunteers
4. Seeking Out Volunteers
5. Vetting Volunteers
6. Calling Volunteers
Training and Evaluating the Team
7. Training Volunteers
8. Evaluating Volunteers
9. Celebrating and Thanking Volunteers
Conclusion
10. Moving Forward
Your Instructor
Steve Argue
Associate Professor, Pastor, Author
Steven Argue, PhD (Michigan State University) is the Applied Research Strategist for the Fuller Youth Institute and associate professor of Youth, Family, and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. Steve researches, speaks, and writes on adolescent and emerging adult spirituality. He has served as a pastor on the Lead Team at Mars Hill Bible Church (Grand Rapids, MI), currently coaches and trains church leaders and volunteers, and has been invested in youth ministry conversation for over 20 years. Steve is the author, coauthor, and contributor to several books.
Chuck Hunt
Senior Director for FYI, Reverend
Charles “Chuck” Hunt, DMin, has been ministering to adolescents, young adults, and their families for more than 30 years. He was born in Virginia and grew up in Huntington Beach, CA, where his love for adventure developed. He has a BS from Hampton University in Aviation as well as an MDiv and DMin from Fuller Theological Seminary. Chuck is passionate about Christ’s call to restore our relationship with God and with each other, thus he advocates for righteousness and justice. He has a proven record of building teams in the church and fostering partnerships with organizations in the community. Through both his career and lived experience, Chuck has the ability to connect with individuals from diverse cultural, spiritual, and economic backgrounds. He lives with his wife Shannon and their young adult daughter Rhyen in Southern California. Though cleverly disguised as a responsible adult, Chuck still runs, surfs, mountain bikes, and skateboards.
FYI
Center at Fuller Theological Seminary
The Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) turns research into practical resources to help make the church the best place for young people to grow. An innovative branch of Fuller Theological Seminary, FYI research has pioneered a new era of youth ministry practice and intergenerational discipleship, partnering with faculty from across various disciplines to create tools that change the way the world sees young people.
