Episode 0024 Season 3 Rich Birch on encouraging volunteers back post-pandemic

Welcome to Episode 0024 Season 3 of the FOUR12 Canada Podcast!

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Rich Birch is the founder of unSeminary and the Executive Director of Camp Mini-Yo-We. Churches across Canada are looking for ways to rebuild and reengage their volunteer teams. Every Christian has been given unique gifts that need to be used in the local church. In this episode, Rich Birch talks about how leaders can affirm those gifts in others and encourage them back to their serving teams post-pandemic.

Connect with Rich

UNSEMINARY | EMAIL | INSTAGRAM

LINKS & PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS

 unSeminary Podcast 

What is unSeminary 

• Blog, Podcast, online courses
• Everything you wish they taught in seminary
• Designed to help leaders and churches
• Cohorts are a great place to hear multiple perspectives from people who are in your corner and want to help

Living a Life Worthy of Your Calling

"...lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God." Ephesians 4:1

• Leaders are actually a gift, given to the church
• Verse 12 of Ephesians 4 says that He has laid out a path for you to serve
• In the church our job is to equip others to live their best life, a life that is fully engaged

How do you Figure Out What Your Calling is?

• As a Christ follower you've been given unique gifts that need to be used in the local church
• Find them in relationships with others in community who will say, I see this... happening in you
• We need to affirm gifts in others
• Think about the people we are leading through this lens, what do we think their spiritual gifts are
• Speak that out to people, lift one another up
• Let others know what you see in them
• Serve, even in areas that might not be your gifting, but find a place to plug in and start
• Pursue and understand your spiritual gifts but also be willing to serve where needed
• Part of the process of learning your spiritual gifts is just trying things out
  
  

 Help Others

• There is joy and freedom in serving
• Be other centred, that's how we find freedom and joy in serving
• We are just called to serve and ultimately lay down our lives

 Favourite Passage

• Sermon on the mount Matt 5 to 7
• Ask what is it that Jesus is calling us to do
• Then look at everything through that lens
• Its amazing that we can keep coming back to the same words and it always impacts our lives

 Ways to Encourage and Connect

• Send cards, keep a running pile ready to go and schedule a time to do it
• be so thankful to those choosing to volunteer
• God is so excited when we take a step towards Him and serve
• Mindset issue Challenge yourself as a leader
• All the volunteers have other things that they could be doing
• We need to let them know we are desperately thankful for them
• Be constantly encouraging
• Say I saw you, you did something and this is the difference that it made
• What's the environment like when others arrive
• Making that thing that was internal, external

 Best Practices to Help Those That are Serving

• Go out of our way to articulate what to expect for volunteers
• Be really clear with people when you communicate
• Clearly lay out what to wear and where to put their stuff
• Talk them through everything, for example make a video to clearly show them what it will look like

 To Those That Have NOT Been Serving but are Thinking of Coming Back

• You as an individual, are missing out
• Our lives need to be oriented around other people
• The church does need you
• We need people that will be part of the team to make the mission happen
• We need you to serve before people will come back

Thanks for listening! We hope this episode has equipped you for greater influence through serving. We don’t want you to miss a single episode, so if you haven’t done so already, subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Help us reach more people by writing a review on the podcast apps that you use. The FOUR12 Canada podcast is a ministry of Faith Baptist Church in Huntsville, Ontario. Follow us on Instagram @FOUR12canada. Thanks for spending some time with us. See you next time!

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