Explore creative ways to support volunteers and grow teams within your church.
Contact Becky Jones ([email protected]) for more information.
What is your mission for your church? How do you want to serve the community? This 4 hour workshop will help clarify your goals for your church ensuring that you are wisely stewarding your volunteer team.
Contact Elaine May ([email protected]) for more information.
Disability and Advocacy Training
Nurturing Belonging: Hospitality, Theology and Disability
This online (video) training is designed to help volunteers gain a deeper understanding of how to create a space of belonging for all people in the various areas of church life, focusing on supporting people living with disabilities.
Let's End Ableism
This online (video) training focuses on two questions:
The Learning Journey Advocate Training Program
This online training program equips volunteers in the area of disability and advocacy to feel confident in their role.
Safer Churches Training
Advisory Panel Process Training
This course provides a basic introduction to the nature and impact of abuse in the church and the needs of those who are victimized. It also prepares participants to serve on an Advisory Panel to assess allegations of abuse.
The Power to Do Good: The Use and Misuse of Power in the Church
This course explores the nature of power and authority in the church, reflecting on its use, abuse, and how it can be redeemed for the glory of God and the flourishing of God's people.
Online Training Series: 5 Steps to a Safer Church
This online series covers the five steps needed in creating a safer church:
Assess Risk, Make and Revise Policy, Screen and Train Leaders and Volunteers, Practice Being Restorative and Respond to Abuse with Justice and Compassion.
Dwell Children’s Ministry Curriculum
Support page for Dwell leaders/teachers
This webpage is a wealth of resources for those leading children through the DWELL program including leader support, planning resources, and helpful downloads that accompany the DWELL materials.
Support page for program coordinators
This webpage features resources and tools that will help support those coordinating a DWELL program in their church's children's ministry or Sunday school program.
Age Level Characteristics of Kids and Teens
This webpage gives a glimpse into a child’s developmental path and may give you some insight into what your volunteers can anticipate from children in these age groups.
Welcoming Children of All Abilities
How do we who work in the children's ministry best prepare to receive each child? This webpage resource suggests ways to design your children’s ministry space and offers suggestions for working with children with specific disabilities so that all children feel welcome in your Dwell group.
Helping Children Celebrate Diversity
Teaching about diversity can break down the wall of prejudice. This webpage holds some suggestions for helping you make your children’s ministry a place where children experience the unbiased, unreserved love of Jesus and each other.
For additional information on the DWELL curriculum, please reach out to Jill Benson ([email protected])
Looking for more information on volunteer resources in a specific area?
For additional information on disability and advocacy, please reach out to Lindsay Wieland Capel ([email protected])
For additional information on safer churches, please reach out to Julia Rathbun ([email protected])
For additional information on worship, please reach out to Katie Roelofs ([email protected])
