Volunteers

Acts 18:1-3 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers. 

The volunteering ministry is a very powerful way of supporting the church you belong to. What does that mean to be a volunteer minister? It's what some people call doing part-time ministry yet with a full-time job on the side. Being in the ministry full-time is when someone is fully supported by the church they serve under. 

On the other hand, volunteer ministers work jobs which are able to support their needs financially and yet continue to be involved in the ministry of church planting, soul winning as well internal ministries in the local church.

The number one hindrance any minister will honestly confess to you that they face are finances. Church always has needs. Without adequate cash flow, it's hard to run a church, meet church needs, do massive crusades, do mega outreaches, etc. The people we reach out to for them to get saved are not the ones who are to support us, no. Someone has to pay for evangelists or missionaries welfare. If an evangelist or missionary can fend for himself, he will be to do much without waiting on the people to bless him.

If the church should pay all the ushers, the band, and cleaners, etc it cannot sustain the mission. It will always be limited in what it can do. Many should volunteer.

For that reason church members who are still in school are always encouraged to continue in school so that they graduate, get jobs, and continue ministering without the church paying them. In this way they can even go to far ends of this world and be able to survive there. Paul was supporting himself while he was in Corint by making tents. 

We need many volunteers who pay for their transport, to and fro church or to any area where they will be ministering, don't demand an honorarium for having ministered, and do not depend on the ministry for anything, that's how growth will happen.

Further scriptures 

2 Corinthians 11:9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself].

2 Corinthians 12:13-15 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except [it be] that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.