By popular demand - I am reposting a video that we used for our volunteer recruitment a couple of years ago.
We were trying to find a way to encourage people to overcome their fear and "jump in" and get involved in ministry. Our worship planning team knew that I would not be there that weekend, and felt that a video message from me encouraging people to get involved would help. One of the team said, "Hey - I have a GREAT idea what you could do..." and the rest is history!
I cut the "don't be afraid" sermon-like stuff off the beginning so we could get right to the scary part:
What an awesome idea! What kind of feedback/outcome occurred?
Posted by: Steven Moore | May 05, 2009 at 11:15 PM
We had a lot of people sign up to get involved at the ministry fair that day - but it was a whole package effort in worship that day so it's hard to say what effect the video had. I did get amazing feedback from people, stuff like "I figured if you could jump out of a plane I could try helping in kids ministry..."
One cool thing - because I couldn't be there our tech team put a camera on the congregation and taped their reaction to the video at one of our services. It was fun to watch it dawn on people that I was actually going to jump out of a plane. Lots of laughs, stunned expressions, etc. Definitely made it worth it!
Posted by: Mark Schulz | May 06, 2009 at 09:26 AM