Introduction: Going from a Potential Key Volunteer to a Key Volunteer

What are we looking for in a Key Volunteer?

• Remember, from the start we are looking for those:
  • whom God has prepared, and
  • in whom He is obviously working and who will be able to learn how to build a movement.

We are not necessarily looking for trained and experienced leaders in Catalytic.

A critical element of Catalytic is that students are expected to lead from the very beginning even with limited knowledge and even though they often lack experience and will make mistakes. We are looking for those volunteers who are willing to keep taking the next step while being coached and equipped.  As they grow to own the mission, they also mature as disciples and leaders who multiply into the lives of others.

Important: A Key Volunteer is not just someone willing to have a personal ministry, but is someone who will seek to build a team that shares the mission and will together build a movement that multiplies new movements and leaders.

God is building powerful student-led movements on every continent of the globe with just the 1 or 2 envisioned students who rise to the surface!

Not all believers who express initial interest will become a Key Volunteer!

We have often seen in different nations around the world where just 1 or 2 out of every 10 Christian students we meet will have a desire to learn how to boldly share the gospel and make disciples.  Anyone who has been involved in university ministry has discovered there are many Christian students who are interested in fellowship and community. Though you may find many who are interested in fellowship, few have little or no desire for being personally involved in helping to fulfill the Great Commission. Because not every Christian student will be a Key Volunteer, it’s important to focus on investing in those students who are aligned to our vision and have a desire to be used by God in the fulfillment of the Great Commission.

In order to see sustainable movements we need to discover the few in whom God is clearly working who will have the heart and motivation to start a movement on their university in our absence.

Instead of thinking about all of the qualities that we would like to have in a student leader, we need to ask the question differently.  We need to ask what are the very essential characteristics for Key Volunteers?