Finding the right volunteers for your developing online ministry can be as challenging as building your online campus (if not harder). There can be huge gaps of trust, control, expectations, and simply general understanding of what exactly you want them to.

Now, I can’t tell you exactly how you need to vet your volunteer because every ministry is different in terms of “qualifications” but what I can tell you is that one of the most successful ingredients that I’ve seen in the marketplace when looking for “volunteers” (but we don’t call them volunteers) is interest.

The catch here is that it must be self-generated. It can’t be fabricated or forced. In other words, some of the best volunteers are those that are already doing what you’d like them to do; they’re just not doing it for you and your ministry (yet).

This way they don’t get tired, they don’t get frustrated, or necessarily burnt out because you’re not forcing them to do something unnatural or having them try to feign interest. Find the people that love to do “online ministry” (whatever that means for your ministry) and then empower them to help out for yours.