Volunteer burn out

Volunteers do burn out. Three years is usually the maximum before they need a change. However the change may simply be from youth group to Sunday school teacher. Consider having a built-in “three year rule” where a person can only do a particular job for three years before they have to make a change to another job or take a year “sabbatical.”

• This is scary because recruiting is sometimes so difficult, but it is worth the effort.
  
• It allows someone else to have a chance to get to know your kids and to enjoy working with them.
  
• It makes it possible to gently “retire” someone who really needs to not be doing this work.
  
• It take care of the burn out problem.