Great volunteer teams don’t lead themselves — they need clear, intentional leadership. Our Simple Practical Guide to Leading Volunteers offers actionable tips to equip, encourage, and empower your team. Use this resource to help your volunteers thrive and serve with joy!
Set your volunteers up for success with clarity and care. Our Volunteer Expectations Template helps you communicate roles, responsibilities, and standards so your team can serve with confidence and purpose. Use this tool to build a strong, unified volunteer culture!
A great service doesn’t happen by accident — it happens by design. Our Church Service Evaluation tool helps you assess what’s working and what can improve, so every part of your service points people to Jesus. Use it to create meaningful, intentional worship experiences!
Want to know what guests really experience at your church? The Secret Shopper Evaluation Form gives you honest, practical feedback to help you create a more welcoming and effective service. Use this tool to see through fresh eyes and take intentional steps to improve!
Great sermons don’t just happen — they’re built through preparation and feedback. Our Sermon Evaluation tool helps you reflect, assess, and improve your messages so they connect and inspire. Use it to grow as a communicator and make every sermon more impactful!
Make every meeting count with purpose and clarity. Our Meeting Agenda Template helps you plan focused, productive gatherings that keep your team aligned and moving forward. Use this tool to save time and ensure your meetings lead to action!
Clarity fuels a healthy team. Our One Page Job Description template helps you define roles, responsibilities, and expectations in a simple, focused format. Use it to align your staff and volunteers so everyone knows how they contribute to the mission!
A great first impression starts with a well-prepared team. Our First Impressions Team Handbook Template helps you equip volunteers with clear expectations, guidelines, and vision for welcoming guests. Use this customizable tool to create a warm, consistent, and guest-friendly experience every Sunday!
Help your team members connect with confidence! The Conversation Evaluation Team Member Example provides a clear model for positive, guest-focused interactions. Use this tool to set expectations and encourage great conversations that reflect your church’s heart.
Want to help your team grow in meaningful connections? Our Conversation Evaluation Supervisor Example shows leaders how to give clear, constructive feedback on guest interactions. Equip your team to have better conversations that leave a lasting impact!
Every meaningful connection starts with a great conversation. Our Conversation Evaluation tool helps you assess and improve how your team engages with guests and members. Use it to foster authentic, welcoming interactions that build trust and community!
Healthy teams start with clear expectations and helpful feedback. Our Staff Evaluation LABS resource gives you practical tools to assess, encourage, and develop your team members. Use it to build a culture of growth, accountability, and support in your church!
Following up doesn’t have to be complicated. Our Follow-Up Flow Chart gives you a clear, step-by-step process to connect with guests, help them take next steps, and keep them engaged. Use this simple tool to create consistent, meaningful follow-up every time!
What’s it really like to visit your church for the first time? Our Secret Shopper Evaluation Form helps you see your services through fresh eyes so you can create a more welcoming, impactful experience. Use this tool to identify what’s working — and what needs attention — to better serve your guests!
Don’t let guests slip through the cracks — great follow-up turns visitors into connected members. This Digital Guest Follow-Up Template gives you a simple, repeatable plan to welcome, engage, and build lasting relationships. Make every guest feel seen, valued, and invited back!
Misalignment is costing your church time, money, and impact — but it doesn’t have to. Our Two Page Plan resource will help you create clarity, align your team, and move forward with purpose. Discover how a simple, focused plan can turn a drifting crowd into a mission-driven force!
Not every ministry should carry the same weight in your church. Some are mission-critical—so essential that if they disappeared, your church would feel it at the core. These are your Keystone Ministries—the ones you build on. The F.I.T. Framework helps churches identify those ministries by filtering them through three essential lenses discussed in this resource.
Here are some questions to ask new volunteers to get to know them.
So many great ideas came up during the Igniting Summer Volunteer Engagement member call recently we thought these short snippets would be a welcome change especially during the summer months. Choose your category and review the ideas that came up, then select a few to implement in your church TODAY!
Curated by Drew Strange, Elementary Kids Pastor at Summit Park Church, this growing collection of parent resources you can send to parents at your church in a Monthly Email. These resources are designed to help parents disciple their kids with confidence and clarity. Each article or tool has been hand-picked and shared through Drew’s monthly email to parents, offering practical, faith-filled insights for guiding children spiritually through everyday moments. Whether you’re looking for conversation starters, biblical encouragement, or help navigating tough topics, this library is here to support you.
This simple, practical handout is designed to help parents continue the conversation from Sunday school at home.
This four-day Vacation Bible School resource uses sports themes to teach kids spiritual truths through teamwork, training, endurance, and victory. With engaging Bible stories, memory verses, and gospel connections, each lesson helps kids learn to live with purpose and follow Jesus—while having fun in a sports camp setting. Perfect for churches hosting an active, Christ-centered VBS.
This 1-on-1 meeting resource provides a structured check-in, focusing on alignment with church vision, departmental priorities, leadership development, and personal well-being. It includes discussion prompts around job clarity, behavioral values, ministry goals, and personal aspirations—offering a holistic framework for staff support and growth.
This practical workbook helps church leaders design a clear and intentional discipleship pathway tailored to their unique mission, values, and context. Built around the M.A.R.C.S. of a Disciple framework, it guides leaders through defining spiritual maturity, assessing current ministry effectiveness, mapping out growth stages, and aligning church environments for transformation. Ideal for teams ready to move people from simply attending to actively living on mission.
This 7-week series includes ready-to-use emails, devotionals, and text messages designed to guide new believers through the Journey series. Created to be simple and impactful, these scripts help churches offer immediate mentorship and encouragement to those who have recently committed their lives to Christ. Use them to supplement your discipleship efforts and support new believers as they take their first steps in faith.
This resource provides a collection of example scripts designed to help you confidently record a selfie video inviting someone to engage with the Journey New Believer Kit. These short and simple templates make it easy to share a warm, personal invitation that points them to their next steps with Jesus.
This 7-week series is designed to help strengthen and deepen your new found faith. This guide allows to interact with the series content in several different ways: YouVersion Reading Plan, E-book, and Videos!
This 7-week video series is designed to complement the 7-week Journey New Believer’s kit. Its purpose is to help people who commit their lives to Christ to be immediately mentored to strengthen and deepen their newfound faith, and is designed to supplement your church’s discipleship program. As with all things Church Fuel, ultimately, the goal is to see lives changed and continue to change as your people take their faith to the next level!
This 30 day series of devotionals is designed to complement the 7-week Journey New Believer’s kit or be used to supplement your church’s discipleship program. Its purpose is to help people who commit their lives to Christ to be immediately mentored to strengthen and deepen their newfound faith. If the 7-week devotional is too long, we’ve condensed it to this 30-day variety to give you more flexibility to fit your church and your congregation. As with all things Church Fuel, ultimately, the goal is to see lives changed and continue to change as your people take their faith to the next level!
Summer may bring lower attendance and giving, but it also opens the door for powerful outreach opportunities. This Summer Outreach Planning Guide equips churches to avoid common pitfalls, plan effectively, and engage their communities with purpose and impact.
Summer is the perfect season to unwind, enjoy sunshine and BBQs, and connect with your community in fresh, meaningful ways. Here are 12 fun and creative ideas for your church to make a splash and build relationships this summer.
This guide is your go-to resource for sharing the excitement, purpose, and impact of VBS, Kids Camp, or Youth Camp at your church. Packed with practical tips and creative ideas, it’s designed to help you tell the story—before, during, and after camp—no matter your team size or experience level. Whether you’re building hype, inviting families, or celebrating what God has done, this guide will help you make the most of every post.
This Google Sheets document has a good start on line-items you should be thinking about when projecting your cost for a big event. This is not a “one size fits all.” So, please feel free to use this template and customize it to your church’s event!
Here are three emails you can customize and send to your congregation leading up to Father’s Day.
Jump-start and stay organized for any event with this Event Planning Checklist.
This resource serves as a flexible template for both your selfie video script and the copy within your ad. It’s designed to help you deliver a clear, consistent, and engaging message across both formats, making it easier to connect with your audience and drive results.
This resource explores the lives of Cain, Samson, Moses, David, and Abraham—not as heroes, but as flawed men learning to grow in faith and character. Through their stories, The 5 Masculine Instincts invites readers to examine their own instincts and pursue a deeper, more honest masculinity. It’s a small group study guide for those walking the path of growth together, with humility and purpose.
Don’t trust your instincts—there is a better path to becoming a better man.
It’s no secret: Today’s men face a dilemma. Our culture tells them that their instincts are either toxic or salvific. Men are left with only two options: deconstruct and forfeit masculine identity or embrace it with wild abandon. They’re left to decide between ignoring their instincts or indulging them. Neither approach helps them actually understand their own masculine experiences nor how those experiences can lead them to become better men of God.
The Bible doesn’t shy away from the reality of masculine instincts nor all of the ways those instincts can lead to destruction. Examining the lives of five men of the Bible, The 5 Masculine Instincts shows that these men aren’t masculine role models or heroes but are men who wrestled with their own desires and, by faith, matured them into something better.
Through this book and resources you’ll discover your own instincts are neither curse nor virtue. They are the experiences by which you develop a new and better instinct—an instinct of faith. By exploring sarcasm, adventure, ambition, reputation, and apathy, The 5 Masculine Instincts shows you how to better understand yourself and how your own instincts can be matured into something better.
This copy can be used as a template for BOTH your selfie video script and your copy within the ad when you are using the Big Win series.
This kit is a sermon series kit designed to help your church have a great theme to rally around however you choose to apply it – it could be at the start of the year or even an After Easter Series.
This is a PDF Guide to help you with your Social Media plan as you use the “Run to Win” series.
Struggling to get your congregation excited about inviting others to church? This article shares practical, faith-filled strategies to inspire your Church to extend heartfelt invitations and grow your community naturally.
This resource is designed to support church leaders and Sunday School teachers with ready-to-use, biblically rooted lessons that highlight the beauty of motherhood and the impact of godly women. Whether you’re planning a last-minute Mother’s Day lesson or want to celebrate the moms in your class on any Sunday, these stories and activities will help children understand and appreciate the love, strength, and faith of mothers who follow God.
Social media images for the Run to Win series can be found in the Run to Win sermon series kit. Choose any of those to match the suggested text posts below, or use your own images. Use these for your posts on social media, your website, your podcast episodes, YouTube uploads, etc.
This resource is for churches ready to start the year with renewed passion and purpose. *Run to Win* is a 5-part sermon series designed to inspire a deeper walk with God and equip your congregation to live out their faith boldly. Centered on the truth that you’re truly running to win when you’re running to Him, this series aims to ignite a fresh spiritual awakening in your community.
This document contains ad copy for a sermon series titled Run to Win. Whether you’re looking to spark interest, encourage attendance, or cast vision, this ad copy will help you effectively communicate the heart of the Run to Win series.
This is a playbook that helps you adapt the content from the “Run to Win” series kit into your Kids Ministry with 5 weeks of content and kids activities.
Welcome to the Run to Win Kit! An energizing kick-start to new life – that’s what this kit is all about. The main message of this 5-part series is that You know you’re Running to Win if you’re Running to Him, and the main goal of the series is to equip your people to have a different, deeper walk with God than they do right now. It offers practical steps they can take in life to win the battles they face! This kit is designed to give your church a strong launch at the beginning of the year or after a big event like Easter.
Mother’s Day can be both joyful and painful, making it a challenge to craft a message that speaks to everyone. This collection of sermon outlines offers ideas and inspiration to help you honor moms while caring for every heart in the room. Each outline includes main points, detailed notes, and a link to the full message, plus bonus resources!
We get it – you might want to post more than photos in order to promote Mother’s Day weekend! Here are some awesome example videos to get your creative juices flowing.
Looking for fun and thoughtful ways to help kids celebrate Mom? This collection of easy and creative Mother’s Day craft ideas is perfect for your kids ministry! From Painted Pots and Lemon-Stamped Tea Towels to DIY Paper Plants and Decorated Mugs, each project is designed to be simple, sweet, and special — just like Mom. Whether you’re crafting a handmade gift or adding a personal touch to Mother’s Day, these ideas will make her feel loved and appreciated.
This playbook guides you through having a high-impact Mother’s Day and goes along with any of Church Fuel’s Mother’s Day Kits! The Kit is packed full of ideas, graphics, and videos with step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions to implement it at your church. We hope to give you tools to help you see more visitors on Mother’s day and every week that follows!
We’ve created a catalog of over 20 inspiring post examples to promote Mother’s Day on social media, and example video scripts to help you plan your social media strategy.
It’s not just about attracting more moms, it’s about reaching as many people with the Gospel as possible, and then riding that momentum all the way through the Summer and into Back To School.
There are tons of creative ways to build and decorate a Mother’s Day photo booth, and we’ve included some of our favorite ideas in this guide. Whether you go with a traditional booth or a simple backdrop and props, it all depends on your space and style. Don’t forget—this kit includes themed signs, and our Church Photo Booth Guide offers tips for using your booth as part of your marketing and follow-up strategy. It’s also a great opportunity to involve handy or creative members of your congregation!
These examples are for the more “polished” videos you might want to produce, in addition to your selfie invite videos, for posts and ads.
Mother’s Day is a key part of your Easter follow-up strategy. Use these tips to build excitement and make it a great experience; use the checklist on page four to keep preparations on track.
These Communications Scripts include Email, Pulpit, and Live/Video Announcement Scripts to go along with the New Beginning Kit.
Use this copy for your Facebook Ads to promo the New Beginning Sermon Series.
This guide pairs with the sermons in the New Beginning Kit. Give this guide to your small group leaders.
This guide gives you a starting point for how to use social media to promote the New Beginning Sermon series. We’ve included an inspiring post for every day and, when possible, links to download the graphics in the kit.
This is a marketing and communications checklist to go with the New Beginning Kit.
This is a 5-week challenge that coordinates with the New Beginning sermon series. We’ve designed it to complement the teaching series from the kit in order to fully engage your congregation in the practical life application. Ultimately, the goal is to see lives changed!
This is the playbook for the New Beginning Kit. This kit is designed to give your church a strong launch at the beginning of the year! It includes a 5-part message series and all you need to promote, engage, and disciple your church to begin the year, and most importantly, have more visitors at your church. One of our goals in creating the kit was to give you a series pre-done that you can promote at Christmas to entice new visitors to return after the New Year without putting any undue stress on you or your church staff during the hectic Christmas holiday season.
Follow the screenshots below to make sure your church page is fully optimized!
These small tweaks can make a big difference in your page’s reach and engagement.
Huge shoutout to John-Erik Moseler for showing us some important Facebook Page settings every church should double-check! ✅
If you had just 5 minutes in your service to to get your church to rally around inviting people to church, display these on your screen during your services, have people pull out their phones, and text a friend a personal invite.
Sermon Outline and inspiration for you to write an Easter message. This goes along with the Pixel Easter Kit.
In the Grow Program, the Church Fuel team will build Google Ad Campaigns for your church. Here are the top ways to optimize those campaigns.
This Bible Reading Plan in part of the Journey New Believers Kit.
There are people in your kid’s life who don’t know Jesus. God wants to use your family to invite them to church. This is a 4-week family devotional that walks you step-by-step on how to invite your friends to church.
In the Grow Program, the Church Fuel team will build Facebook Ad Campaigns for your big events. Check out these Facebook Ad Photo and Video Examples
Here are the top ten search queries on YouVersion.
While it’s not the easiest of seasons for Church Leaders, there are 5 key principles to making this season not only less exhausting but also more effective.
Here are three kinds of growth you can look for in your church.
When you understand the foundational issues, the tactical decisions will become more obvious.
These principles are not formulas or steps, but we’ve seen churches that focus on these issues turn the tide in their church. Putting time, effort, and resources into these areas might yield positive results for you.
Our website builder makes it possible to install a whole landing page with just one click.
Use these generic Popsigns as handheld signs for your greeters, both indoor and outdoor, to create a welcoming environment for those who visit your church!
This Workflow Bundle gives you a number of follow-up automations to connect with people who come to your church in as easy as one click. These are our easy buttons!
As technology has become more and more prevalent in our society, churches have an even larger opportunity to adapt their use of it to reach more people and engage their people more often.
The generosity framework is a simple exercise that helps you conceptualize all of your generosity-related ideas and plans for your church. It provides a foundation for outlining what to do and is a great starting point for your planning process.
Does your leadership team have success setting and reaching church-wide goals?
Commercials like this will surely spark many questions and conversations and we want your church to be prepared. Here are some ways you can get involved.
There ways beyond Sunday mornings that we can draw together our people on a regular basis with the goal of engaging with others from the church.
Check out these ten ways your church can engage with your community this summer.
Growing your church starts with intentional strategies at every stage of the guest journey. This playbook outlines actionable steps for creating a welcoming experience for guests before, during, and after their first visit to your church.
When everyone has a clear understanding of their jobs and responsibilities, ministry runs smoother. Volunteer job descriptions do much more than provide an explanation of duties. Here are four reasons it’s worth the time and effort to create job descriptions for church volunteers.
We surveyed hundreds of pastors and church leaders and asked them what specific skills they wanted to develop in their teams. We talked to leadership development and church staff experts and whittled the topics down to 12 of the most important lessons.
Most churches are constantly looking for new ways to get new people through the doors. But when you think beyond the how, do you know what they’ll do once they’re in?
You’re doing important work, and we want you to stay in ministry for a long time. That means creating boundaries and working strategically.
Volunteer burnout is real, but here’s the thing: In most cases…it’s entirely preventable. There are actions you can take right now that will help you keep volunteers inspired and engaged. In this Live Class, Michael and special guest, Jason Young, give practical tips for keeping volunteers engaged.
Written by Jason Hamrock, CEO of Missional Marketing, this guide is designed to help your church understand and manage a Google My Business profile. This online profile helps people in your community find your church.
You can edit this ready to use Job Description to fit your church’s positional need. Questions? Contact your Ministry Coach for details on how to make this document work for you.
This is a resource in partnership with the Church Multiplication Network specifically designed to help church plants.
It’s crucial to carefully plan for any new role you’re considering adding to your church staff. Pastors and church leaders should consider the following areas when creating a new position.
If your church is serious about reaching new guests, particularly those who are not attending any other church, here are five things to consider.
If you’re a pastor or a church leader looking for extra income, here are some ideas.
How do you respond to the members who have just become disengaged or have drifted away? Here are four suggestions.
As you read this list, hopefully, you’re encouraged that healthy church growth is attainable in your setting. Ultimately, church growth is up to God. It’s His Church and His Kingdom. But He chooses to use us, and we have a stewardship opportunity.
Here are some practical ideas to help you engage more people in the area of generosity.
Chances are, you’ve felt slighted or dismayed when you learned that someone you thought was a lifelong supporter has stopped giving. When this happens, what do you do? What should your response be?
If nothing seems to be working, this is for you, here are four things you can do when you don’t have enough leaders.
What are the most important things your church does? Out of all the programs, ministries, and special events, which ones make the most impact?
How do we develop more leaders? It’s an important question. Because the health and growth of a church is often tied to the health and growth of leaders.
Team-building isn’t an activity you do to get it out of the way but something you do to actually develop relationships.
There are three things you should never neglect if you want your ministry to thrive and grow in the long term. And churches historically struggle with each of them.
Here are some ways you can make the new year a great year in your church.
It’s time to update your staff’s job descriptions. Outdated job descriptions can create a major gap in your ability to lead your team and your organization well.
We want to share some specific ways you can reach new givers this year.
You should be thanking first-time givers when they give for the very first time and regular givers who are supporting the ministry year-round. Here are some practical ideas on how you can thank these donors.
This sensitive information can be helpful in both discipleship and leadership if used wisely and carefully.
What does a financially healthy church look like? While all churches are different and serving in unique contexts, here are some best practices.
How can you say thanks and appreciate your church volunteers when you don’t have a large budget? Here are some ideas…
Repeating your weekend message isn’t necessarily repeating as much as it is reaching.
Whether you’re working on a sermon, trying to convince people to join a small group, or writing the church newsletter, there are some principles in this book are really going to help you.
Strategy can be a clarifying factor for your church. It’s the bridge between vision and execution, and it’s where you answer the important “how” questions of church leadership.
When you’re working with your team to create or update your purpose statement, it helps to have examples on hand to inspire you. Here are twenty-two great purpose statements from churches around the world.
There are practical ways you can use your purpose statement that will remind your congregation, community, and internal team why you exist.
We have a few best practices and suggestions for how to lead a congregation in a time of grief.
How do you know a person is flourishing? What factors play into it?
The most effective staff evaluations go below the surface. They include discussions about alignment and uncover deeper insights that help your church’s leadership understand who your team members are and where they fit in. They help you pastor your team and monitor their progress in a customized way that makes the most sense for their role.
As a pastor or church leader, this should resonate with you and challenge you. Instead of coming down from the mountain like Moses and attempting to vision-cast your way toward momentum, focus on building a team of leaders who are committed to figuring out the answers to important questions.
If you’re planning to acknowledge Mother’s Day and Father’s Day at your church, here are a few ideas to consider.
Feelings of exhaustion can lead to burnout which can have rippling detrimental effects personally and organizationally. Here are some things pastors can do right now to breathe fresh life into your team.
Barna recently hosted a “State of the Church” event aimed at helping church leaders in specific cities understand what people think of the church in general. The stats are informative, and they should give you insights into your local ministry context. But more than that, they should inspire action.
Even though it’s fairly normal for a church to accept digital donations and there are dozens of church-giving software solutions to enable these transactions, there’s still so much opportunity ahead of us.
It’s been said that a pastor’s spiritual life is directly related to church growth, that as the pastor’s spiritual health goes, so goes their church. We couldn’t agree more. A pastor’s own spiritual health is crucial to effectively leading others in their faith journey – we can’t lead others spiritually higher than where we ourselves stand.
In this post, I’m going to share with you three overlooked ways you can lead parents to disciple their children.
In this post, I’m going to share with you 6 steps you can take to launch a college ministry, build relationships with students, and make new disciples.
In this post, I’m going to lay out tactics you can use to inspire more volunteers to join your children’s ministry today, as well as different ways you can prepare volunteers to serve tomorrow.
Should your church start livestreaming your services, Bible studies, or events? Well, it depends…
Services will continue to look different, even as we start re-opening. So how are other churches engaging their members around generosity? Let’s take a look at the three great examples we found.
There are two more holidays that present unique opportunities for churches: Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.
Many pastors want to reach more people in the community and see their church’s weekly attendance numbers grow, but are unknowingly standing in their own way. Here are 6 ways pastors can be the ones hurting their church’s growth.
As we work with hundreds of churches across every state and multiple countries, here are some of the bigger internal obstacles we are seeing churches face. Focus on removing these four growth barriers.
Here are some best practices on how you can actually use Church Fuel.
Here are three ways you can use Church Fuel as a staff member.
Here are three ways you can use Church Fuel as a volunteer at your church.