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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...

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 ...

Scheduling Volunteers for Events

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

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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. ...

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...

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