Volunteer Appreciation...

Our church does an appreciation every year for all the volunteers in the church which includes the youth volunteers, but it's so general that we do our own appreciation.

So Last night we got all of our volunteers together, changed the scenary a little and went to the beach:

We talked to them about "what an effective summer looks like" for them.

We prepped for our Overnighter coming up next week

And then we went back to the church for appreciation including a small gift card to the movies to thank them and their spouses for the sacrifice of their time and a picture collage of the different things each volunteer was involved with during the year

Let's face it...the larger church doesn't know the commitment we ask of our volunteers, the countless hours, and all the events, camps and Sundays that they do all the time. So a special appreciation is necessary.

I heard over and over again last night... "At the beginning of the year, I had no idea that God would bring us this far."

Praise God for Volunteers!!