Faith Based Service / Religious Institutions

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Cover art holding hands

You Can Make a Difference: Helping Yourself and Others Through Volunteering

Volunteer Management Associates
1990 Marlene Wilson Books

Volunteers in the Church of Tomorrow

Voluntary Action Leadership, Summer 1991
1991 Margie Morris Articles

Volunteers in Service to Their Community: Congregational Commitment to Helping the Needy

Journal of Volunteer Administration
1990 Robert J. Wineburg Articles

Volunteers and Volunteer Ministries (part of a series of booklets)

Office for Church Life and Leadership, United Church of Christ
1979 Pamphlets / Booklets

VOLUNTEERS (special issue of Christian Ministry magazine - multiple articles)

The Christian Ministry, Vol. IV, Number 3, May 1973
1973 Pamphlets / Booklets

Volunteerism and Judaism

Prepared for the 100 Year Immigration Celebration at the "Y", Philadelphia, PA May 1983
1983 Samuel Yates Articles

VOLUNTEERISM (special issue of Vision magazine, multiple articles)

VISION magazine, Summer 2002
2002 Articles

Volunteering by Religious Groups: The Half-Awake Giant

Voluntary Action Leadership, Winter 1978
1978 Alice Leppert Articles

Volunteer Ministry is the Heart of Our Church

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lansdale, PA
1980's? Samples

Volunteer Management in America's Religious Organizations

Corporation for National and Community Service, Washington, DC
2004 Kimberly A Spring Robert T. Grimm Jr. Reports / Studies

Volunteer Management Capacity in America's Charities and Congregations

Urban Institute, Washington, DC
2004 Reports / Studies

Using the Mission Statement To Recruit Church Volunteers

Journal of Volunteer Administration
1991 Frances Ledwig Articles

Training Volunteers (in a church setting)

The Care and Feeding of Volunteers, Chapter Six
1978 Douglas W. Johnson Articles

Tools for Building Your Volunteer Ministry

Margie Morris, Newton-Cline Press, Sherman, TX
1992 Margie Morris Books

The Waking of a Giant: Church-Related Volunteerism

Journal of Volunteer Administration
1984 Marlene Wilson Articles

The Starter Kit for Mobilizing Ministry - PART 2

Leadership Network, Tyler, Texas
1994 Sarah Jane Rehnborg Books

The Starter Kit for Mobilizing Ministry - PART 1

Leadership Network, Tyler, Texas
1994 Sarah Jane Rehnborg Books

The Spirituality Factor: Exploring the Link between Volunteering and Faith

Volunteer Leadership, April-June 1997
1997 Susan M. Chambre Articles

The Role of Stress in Church Volunteerism

Term Paper submitted for course at Northern Illinois University, May 1983
1983 Martha Windelborn Reports / Studies

The Pastor as Volunteer

LEADERSHIP magazine, Summer quarter, 1982
1982 James D. Berkley Articles

The Ministry of Volunteers: Training Volunteers (part of a series of booklets)

Office for Church Life and Leadership
1979 Pamphlets / Booklets

The Ministry of Volunteers: The Church and Its Volunteers (part of a series of booklets)

Office for Church Life and Leadership, United Church of Christ
1979 Pamphlets / Booklets

The Ministry of Volunteers: Supporting Volunteers (part of a series of booklets)

Office for Church Life and Leadership, United Church of Christ
1979 Pamphlets / Booklets

The Ministry of Volunteers: Guiding the Church's Volunteer Ministry Program (part of a series of booklets)

Office for Church Life and Leadership, United Church of Christ
1979 Pamphlets / Booklets

The Ministry of Volunteers: Developing a Mission Statement (part of a series of booklets)

Office for Church Life and Leadership, United Church of Christ
1979 Pamphlets / Booklets

The Ministry of Volunteers: Completing Volunteer Ministries (part of a series of booklets)

Office for Church Life and Leadership, United Church of Christ
1979 Pamphlets / Booklets

The Interface Between Campus Ministry and Volunteer Service

Volunteer Administration
1978 Theresa MacIntyre Articles

The Church and Voluntary Service

grapevine newsletter, Joint Strategy and Action Committee Inc., June 1987
1987 J. Wilbur Patterson Articles

Share the Heart: An Innovative Way to Involve Church Members in the Community

Voluntary Action Leadership, Summer 1985
1985 Kathleen Brown (Fletcher) Articles

Religious Volunteer Program Management

Voluntary Action Leadership, Winter 1978
1978 Nancy D. Root Articles

Recruiting Volunteers

The Christian Ministry, May 1973
1973 Lawrence I. Kramer Jr. Articles

Recruiting and Developing Volunteer Leaders: Resources for Parish Leaders

Parish Life Press, Philadelphia, PA
1979 George E. Scheitlin Eleanore L. Gillstrom Pamphlets / Booklets

Recognizing Volunteers in Churches

Voluntary Action Leadership, Summer 1980
1980 Janet Richards Articles

Reaching Out: Helping Church Members Volunteer in the Greater Community

Journal of Volunteer Administration
1988 Deborah Schroder Articles

Noble Volunteer or Humble Slave?

LEADERSHIP magazine, Summer quarter, 1982
1982 Ben Patterson Articles

New Ministries of the Church

Chapter 14, The Church Creative: A Reader on the Revival of the Church, Abingdon Press, Nashville.
1967 R. Edward Dowdy Articles

National Service: it it for us?

NEW CONVERSATIONS, Board for Homeland Ministries of the United Church of Christ, New York, NY Fall 1988
1988 Pamphlets / Booklets

Moments of Truth in Volunteer Management: Using a Quality Customer Service Approach

Voluntary Action Leadership, Summer 1991
1991 Kenneth J. Kovach Articles

Moblizing Church Communities for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention through the Use of Volunteer Church Advocate Teams

Journal of Volunteer Administration
1997 Ted Strader David Collins Tim Noe Knowlton Johnson Articles

Mobilizing Church Volunteers

Conference handouts, received February 1993
1993 Marlene Wilson Handouts / Fact Sheets

Localization of Human Services: Using Church Volunteers to Fight the Feminization of Poverty

Journal of Volunteer Administration
1986 Robert J. Wineburg Cate Riley Wineburg Articles

Little Miracles: How Churches are Responding to Welfare Reform

The American Enterprise, January/February 1998
1998 Amy L. Sherman Articles

Let's Celebrate Volunteers (in a church setting)

Division for Parish Services, Lutheran Church of America, Philadelphia, PA
1985 Pamphlets / Booklets
Book cover with slices of photographs of woman in a mix of activities

How to Mobilize Church Volunteers

Augsburg Publishing House
1983 Marlene Wilson Books
Bookcover

How to Energize Your Volunteer Ministry

Group Volunteer Leadership Series
2004 Marlene Wilson Books

Helping Volunteers Plan (in a church setting)

The Care and Feeding of Volunteers, Chapter Four.
1978 Douglas W. Johnson Articles

Faith-Based Initiatives: What Might This Mean?

ENERGIZE, Inc -- Hot Topic
July 2001 Susan J. Ellis Articles

Faith in Action (1988 Annual Conference for Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers)

National Federation of Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers, Inc., Kingston, NY
1988 Samples

Faith and voluntary action: community, values and resources (United Kingdom)

Institute for Volunteering Research, London, UK September 2003
2003 Reports / Studies

Factors Related to Volunteer Commitment in Church-Related Services

A Dissertation submitted to National Catholic School of Social Service of The Catholic University of America, 1997
1997 Marilyn Christian Nelson Reports / Studies