When it comes to ministry scheduling, every scheduler will admit that they have a certain few volunteers that are their “regulars.” These are the volunteers you can consistently rely on to show up when scheduled, fill in if others need a sub, and help out when you’re in a jam. But what is it that keeps those volunteers engaged and willing to serve regularly? And how can we get more volunteers to be our regulars? Here are some ideas to help engage your volunteers and retain them for the long run!

As we embrace the new normal of scheduling church services and volunteers, whether it's for online or in-person services, it's important to know there are tools available to make this new reality easier. Here are three ways to accommodate the changes happening in your church while still making it easy to resume consistent scheduling when the time comes.

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This year has already been unpredictable, to say the least! With the holidays on the horizon, you may be wondering what special needs might need to be accommodated for services that already require extra attention and volunteers. Putting a plan together now for this year's schedule not only reduces the stress of planning and organizing of volunteers in a time of unknowns, but it also creates a process that will help for future holiday scheduling that might look a little bit more like it has in the past.

Rotunda Software has six shared values that not only lead us in why we do our work, but how we do it as well. One of these values, “our work is our art,” makes it that much more exciting to see our team using the products that we spend so much time creating and improving. Daily use of our programs means that everyone benefits; our products see development that is timely and use-based, which benefits our clients, and it helps keep our internal work on track and on time. Here are a few ways that we use our Rotunda Software products within our personal and professional lives!

Recognizing a volunteers' time and effort, whether formally with thank-you events or awards, or informally through simple acts of gratitude, is an easy way to reward and encourage future participation.

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Here are four of the most popular scheduling methods that you can use individually or in combination with each other, to create a volunteer schedule for your church.

Church services in the coming weeks may look very different than the last time we gathered back in March, and it may be helpful to think of this as launching a new church rather than trying to return to how things used to be. By approaching your reopening in this way, you’ll be better equipped to identify the ways that your volunteer program needs to adapt to succeed.

Rotunda Software, the creator of scheduling software Volunteer Scheduler Pro, is proud to announce a partnership with the Town and Village of Red Hook, New York, and their newly formed volunteer initiative, Red Hook Responds.