I would be willing to volunteer. In fact, I would be happy to volunteer—maybe even honored—but I haven’t volunteered. And, there might be a lesson here about how to recruit volunteers.

I started hiking a couple of years back. I hike mostly on National Park Service land—specifically the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. I didn’t realize until I started hiking that much of the work of maintaining the Park Service land is done by volunteers. When I became aware of this I thought, “I should volunteer.” But, I haven’t.

“You likely have people sitting in your worship service every week who feel the same way. They would be willing to volunteer. They might even be honored to play a part in what you are doing. But they have not volunteered. Perhaps for some of the same reason I have not volunteered.”

Recruit Personally

I have gotten to know a few of the volunteers at the Monument. I run into them from time to time as I hike and they go about their work. We often chit-chat about the weather and how these magnificent mountains got here. I often ask if anyone has seen an Oryx recently. Usually the answer is, “no.”

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