Jul 9, 2026 · 1 hr · 10 segments
In this episode, the team at Feed My Sheep explores what it really means to lead volunteers in a ministry setting. The conversation centers on a bigger idea: people are not just helping with tasks…
Whoever jumps in first, Casey or Nancy.
What is the
single greatest difficulty in managing each day, because we have to have outcomes, managing each day with a group of people that is working for you, under you, that is voluntary-based? They do not have to be here.
What is the single most difficult thing in your opinion?
Hey, this is Nancy.
just kidding um oh there's a lot of difficulties uh i think like you were saying it's they don't have to be here and you can't just fire people uh not that you want to do that but sometimes it's like man it would This is bad talking about volunteers.
But no, I mean, you want everyone here.
You want everyone here.
We say it all the time.
We want as many people here as possible.
Honestly, I think the biggest struggle is not letting your frustrations lead you rather than realizing that every single person that is here, you're not just serving the people that come to the line, but you are serving the people the volunteers as well.
And a lot of times when I'm getting frustrated, uh, I have to slow down and think God usually corrects me.
It's like, man, you kind of do the same thing sometimes.
Um, so a lot of times it's just not letting your frustration lead you and realize that, uh, whether they're, whether you think that someone's here for the right reason, what it, what even is the right reason for someone to volunteer, um, but really just not letting your frustrations of the day lead you.
Um, and really being intentional about, um, showing, showing the kindness of God to people, whether they're in the line, whether they're serving, whether they're volunteering, uh, but really letting that lead you rather than the frustrations of the day.
Cause it can be really easy to just from the moment you get here, there's frustrations.
Um, And so not to let that lead you rather than really being unintentional.
Okay, good.
Nancy, same question.
Okay, so I'm relatively new to this.
It's been, I think, two months now, almost, maybe.
Coming from the private background, you know, private or government kind of background.
So when I have assembled teams in the past and I was the department head at the city.
So in that capacity, assembling a team like I would I would find people who.
have the talents to accomplish whatever the goal is so you know we start off with a job description and then you know what type of character traits do we think that this person needs to have in order to accomplish this this job successfully and then assembling the people in all of those different positions to accomplish some kind of common goal
Whoever jumps in first, Casey or Nancy.
What is the
single greatest difficulty in managing each day, because we have to have outcomes, managing each day with a group of people that is working for you, under you, that is voluntary-based? They do not have to be here.
What is the single most difficult thing in your opinion?
Hey, this is Nancy.
just kidding um oh there's a lot of difficulties uh i think like you were saying it's they don't have to be here and you can't just fire people uh not that you want to do that but sometimes it's like man it would This is bad talking about volunteers.
But no, I mean, you want everyone here.
You want everyone here.
We say it all the time.
We want as many people here as possible.
Honestly, I think the biggest struggle is not letting your frustrations lead you rather than realizing that every single person that is here, you're not just serving the people that come to the line, but you are serving the people the volunteers as well.
And a lot of times when I'm getting frustrated, uh, I have to slow down and think God usually corrects me.
It's like, man, you kind of do the same thing sometimes.
Um, so a lot of times it's just not letting your frustration lead you and realize that, uh, whether they're, whether you think that someone's here for the right reason, what it, what even is the right reason for someone to volunteer, um, but really just not letting your frustrations of the day lead you.
Um, and really being intentional about, um, showing, showing the kindness of God to people, whether they're in the line, whether they're serving, whether they're volunteering, uh, but really letting that lead you rather than the frustrations of the day.
Cause it can be really easy to just from the moment you get here, there's frustrations.
Um, And so not to let that lead you rather than really being unintentional.
Okay, good.
Nancy, same question.
Okay, so I'm relatively new to this.
It's been, I think, two months now, almost, maybe.
Coming from the private background, you know, private or government kind of background.
So when I have assembled teams in the past and I was the department head at the city.
So in that capacity, assembling a team like I would I would find people who.
have the talents to accomplish whatever the goal is so you know we start off with a job description and then you know what type of character traits do we think that this person needs to have in order to accomplish this this job successfully and then assembling the people in all of those different positions to accomplish some kind of common goal
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