5 DAYTODAY Practical help with the operations and ministry of your mission VITAL VOLUNTEERS Grasping the Bigger Picture 50 Developing great volunteers who can change our communities by Josh Windham PR TOOLKIT The Power of Storytelling 52 Ways to make sure your ministry’s story gets heard by Ami NeibergerMiller A FULL PLATE Sprouting Seeds of Growth 55 Creating an environment of consistent and intentional instruction by Tyler Peoples ACROSS THE STREET Thoughts for the Common Good 56 Opening your mind and heart to unexpected possibilities in your community by Michelle Porter FINDING FUNDS Saying Thank You 58 The importance of being quick, generous, and genuine with your appreciation by Barry Durman INSURANCE SOLUTIONS Guest or Employee? 60 Sorting out the ramifications of when program guests also do work for your mission by Brian H. Merriam GATEPOSTS 62 Citygate Network News and Events INSTIGATE Publisher: John Ashmen Editor: Brad Lewis Managing Editor: Kristi Rector Advertising Sales: Malcomn Mitchell Designer: Mike Hames Phone: (719) 2668300 Fax: (719) 2668600 Email: editor@citygatenetwork.org Web: www.citygatenetwork.org Photos: iStock, unless noted Printed in the USA Copyright © 2019 by Citygate Network Instigate (formerly Rescue ISSN 1049586X) is a bimonthly publication of Citygate Network. Published as a service to members, it seeks to provide current, useful information about issues and subjects pertinent to those serving in rescue missions and kindred ministries. Citygate Network exists to provide the envisioning, education, training, resources, guidance, representation, and nexus for missions and kindred ministries that are striving to move people in destitute conditions or desperate situations from human suffering to human flourishing through the process of gospelpowered life transformation. Instigate magazine welcomes contributions and comments. Please send photographs, queries, and ideas for articles, feedback, and address changes to Brad Lewis at editor@citygatenetwork.org, or to Instigate’s editorial, advertising, and circulation offices at Citygate Network, 2153 Chuckwagon Road, Suite 100, Colorado Springs, CO 80919. All Scripture quotations taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, unless otherwise noted. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers. Award Winner March/April 2019 l Volume 33, Number 2 CONTENTS Continued