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Volunteer Management Overview

TimelyChurch provides a comprehensive volunteer management system that helps you recruit, organize, schedule, and communicate with your church's volunteers. Whether you need to staff a Sunday morni...

Volunteer Management
Creating Serving Teams and Roles

Before you can schedule volunteers for events, you need to set up your serving teams and define the positions within each team. This article walks you through creating teams, adding positions, and ...

Volunteer Management
Scheduling Volunteers for Events

This article covers how to add serving needs to events and assign volunteers to those positions. TimelyChurch provides multiple ways to schedule volunteers -- from manual one-by-one assignment to f...

Volunteer Management
Volunteer Self Sign-Up

TimelyChurch allows volunteers to sign themselves up for open serving positions through the member portal. This reduces the administrative burden on church staff and empowers volunteers to choose w...

Volunteer Management
Managing Volunteer Availability

TimelyChurch provides two types of availability management: general availability preferences that describe when a volunteer can typically serve, and specific blackout dates for days they will be ab...

Volunteer Management
Substitute Requests

When a volunteer declines a serving assignment, it is critical to find a replacement quickly. TimelyChurch's substitute request system automates this process by creating a request, identifying elig...

Volunteer Management
Volunteer Notifications

TimelyChurch sends email notifications to keep volunteers informed about their assignments and to streamline the accept/decline workflow. This article covers all notification types, how they work, ...

Volunteer Management
Volunteer Reports and Tracking

TimelyChurch tracks detailed volunteer participation data that helps church leaders understand serving patterns, identify burnout risks, and ensure fair rotation. This article covers the statistics...

Volunteer Management
Swap and Trade Requests

Sometimes a volunteer cannot serve on the date they are scheduled for, but instead of dropping the slot entirely they would rather swap with another team member who is serving on a different week. ...

Volunteer Management
Recurring Unavailability

Most volunteers can serve most weeks, but almost every team has someone with a standing conflict -- a small group leader who is never available on the 1st Sunday of the month, a parent who can't do...

Volunteer Management

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