This weekend I was pleasantly surprised to to have the church volunteer coordinator ask me if there wasn’t some way to get volunteers to confirm/change their Sunday assignments via an online system. Well, this was music to my ears. I had looked at some systems in the past. However, I was certain they would meet with resistance and limited use. So, even though I would have used it, I did not want to tilt at windmills trying to get my fellow volunteers to use the system. But, when the coordinator is asking, you can be sure the time has come to implement the new thing. On the heels of a volunteer for an electronic newsletter, I am quite pleased. Seeing the new efforts reinvigorates me.
It has hard keeping your options open when no one asks what they are.