How Do I Empower Volunteers to Feel Qualified to Serve?

My first year in ministry I had five students and no volunteers. I had to resort to begging my husband to come to youth group and hang out. For a couple of weeks that worked, but finally my husband sat me down and said he really had no idea how to—get this—”hang out.” 

Now for those of us in ministry, “hanging out” with kids and students is second nature. But to a software engineer, there needed to be some guidance as to what role he was actually supposed to fill.

It became clear in that first y...