Man o' man how many times have I heard this one - and shudder every time I hear someone getting up and "begging" for "helpers". It is a nail in the coffin of what you are trying to do. Many recognise the problem - most pastors don't allow groups to get up and plea for help in services. They know it is the kiss of death. Yet - instead of taking the rejection of a platform as a kindly word of advise - we instead moan and bicker about the fact that we aren't allowed to use the pulpit to recruit help.

Don't ever, ever, ever beg for help.
Don't do it.
It doesn't work.

And if by some fluke you get someone feeling guilty enough to come and sheepishly offer to help - they won't be of lasting value anyway.

People are attracted to life - not death.

A plea for help usually indicates a rotting carcass of a program that should be put out of its misery.

The moral to lesson 1 is to sell a vision.
People are attracted to life.
People want to feel significant and know they are involved in something significant.
People want to be world changers, not undertakers.

Wait on God.
Catch a glimpse of what he wants to do through you.
Then write it down and start telling people.

Begin with yourself.
Then your teams.
Then the boys and girls in your programs.
Then their parents.
Then your friends.
Then stand on the street corner and shout that the Lord is doing a new thing. Tell them that there are grand plans, that revival is coming, it's happening here - in your program.

See if you can find jobs for all the people that flock to be a part of what God is doing.

If you find you're waiting a long time for God to give you vision - give up.

Find a leader who has vision, who has heard from God. Serve them and their vision. Learn how to get fired up. Learn how to hear from God. Learn how to motivate others as you are motivated yourself. Learn from them how to lead others and recruit and build teams even as you are lead and built into a team yourself.

Don't blame the program. Blame yourself.
Don't blame the people. Blame yourself.
Don't blame the pastor. Blame yourself.

The problem is always leadership.
The solution is always leadership.