If you are like many team leaders, mobilizing enough people for your trips is sometimes a struggle. It is tough getting people to volunteer halfway around the world. Utilizing your current team as a recruiting force for future trips can help overcome some of this hurdle.
Keep the Fires Burning
Even after the trip is over, do as much as you can to keep the experience in front of your team, their supporters and anyone else who is interested. Send e-mails or newsletters with updates on the progress made in the field since your trip. Also, host a picture party after you get home. Give your team the opportunity to share photos and swap digital memory sticks, but be sure to invite other people to this as well. In addition, you may want to consider monthly or quarterly prayer meetings to keep the mission flames burning until that next trip.
This is the fifth of five strategies for easier and more successful mission team recruiting. Read Frank Banfill’s entire article.