Many parishes did a Stewardship of Time & Talent Commitment Renewal in these weeks around Pentecost. If your parish was one of them, congratulations & we hope all your hard work has yielded much interest in your parish's ministries.
Don't forget:
Enter your data ASAP. It can be easy to let the paperwork sit, if you are busy focusing on all of your regular responsibilities.
Get the data to your ministry coordinators immediately for follow up.
Remind them weekly for the next few weeks of the need to contact the folks who signed up for their ministry.
In the Thank You letter you send to all those who returned a commitment card, make sure you include a line letting them know that if they don't get contacted by the ministry coordinator in the next couple of weeks, to let the parish office know.
Consider having one of the parish staff, or a very trusted volunteer in the parish office, contact all those who are NEW volunteers (not repeat sign ups) so that these very crucial folks are contacted.
As we celebrate the birth of the church, it's fantastic to see some of the excitement in our own parish over people who are enthused enough about ministry to volunteer!
