development and maintenance of a corps volunteer workers. Lyle E. Schaller (from the Foreword)

Volunteers, whether they be Sunday school teachers or church ushers, are vital to the life of the local church. Recent in-depth studies reveal that 30 to 65 percent of local church members are willing to serve their respective churches in some sort of volunteer capacity. Douglas Johnson explores the unique motivations, ambitions, and needs of these valuable individuals emphasizing what makes a volunteer want to work, and what gives him/her nonmonetary satisfaction. He discusses how to Identify, recruit, and train volunteers: how to enable and to motivate them, how to assign them appropriate tasks, how to help them plan their work; and how to enable them to recruit and to train other volunteers.

Every church leader who works with volunteers will find this unique and practical handbook extremely helpful in dealing with them in and out of the local church setting