How to build volunteer schedules and teams

Every week the same question comes up: who is at each station, and what happens when someone is absent? When the answer lives only in one organizer's head, the whole team depends on that person never getting sick. This guide moves the schedule onto paper with a simple method. It shows how many volunteers each station needs, from churches of up to 100 people to those over 800, walks through a six-step routine for building the monthly schedule, adds a five-step backup plan for absences, and provides four templates ready to copy.