In light of this week's new download, Developing Your Volunteers, we're posting an excerpt from an interview with Bruce Bugbee, president of Network Ministries International and coauthor of Network: The Right People in the Right Places for the Right Reasons (Zondervan). Bugbee talks about the challenge of putting volunteers where they will best serve.

Every church has certain essential ministries, such as nursery and Sunday school. What do you do when you can't get enough people for those?

There's a difference between a "unique contribution" and a "community contribution." While each of us has a unique contribution to make that reflects our passions, gifts, and style, all of us are able to make what I call a community contribution. I can usher; I can work in the nursery; I can push a vacuum. That is about servanthood. A person may not be gifted to work in the nursery every week for a year, but he or she can step into the nursery once a quarter.

If you consistently don't have enough people, ...