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Volunteer Management Overview

TimelyChurch's volunteer tools let you recruit, organize, schedule, and message your church's volunteers. You can staff a Sunday morning service or a one-off event, and everything is organized arou...

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 covers creating teams, adding positions, and configuring...

Volunteer Management
Scheduling Volunteers for Events

This article covers adding serving positions to events and assigning volunteers to them. You can schedule one person at a time by hand, or let the system fill positions automatically.

Volunteer Management
Volunteer Self Sign-Up

TimelyChurch lets volunteers sign themselves up for open serving positions through the member portal. Volunteers choose when and where they serve, and church staff have less to place by hand.

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 can't serve, you need a replacement quickly. This article covers what happens when a volunteer declines a serving spot, the tools leaders use to find someone else, and how that dif...

Volunteer Management
Volunteer Notifications

TimelyChurch keeps volunteers informed about their assignments and makes accepting or declining a one-tap job. Messages go by Telegram when the volunteer has linked their account, otherwise by emai...

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 can't serve on the date they're scheduled for, but would rather swap with another team member who is serving a different week than drop the slot. TimelyChurch has a swap reque...

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 S...

Volunteer Management

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