My wife went shopping yesterday and bought Luci an inflatable swimming pool on sale. It was a Banzai Alligator Pool (pictured to the left) and hey it was a bargain marked down to $15. Or was it? Look at the picture. The front of the box shows two preschool girls and three elementary boys splashing and having fun.
Boy, were we deceived. We blew up the pool to find that it was nothing like the picture. There’s no way three preschoolers could fit inside that pool, leave alone two third-grade boys. The streaming flow of water coming down the slide? It doesn’t exist. The pool is so small that I had to take one of the slides out to make room for Luci and her toys.
Don’t promise more than you can deliver. It might land you a few sales, you might get your audience, you might even get a few pats on the back, but you won’t build trust. Only promise what you know you can deliver.
lol. Wow. You can actually tell that the “pool” is not even sitting on the grass. Those kids aren’t even actually on the slides.
It’s incredible what some companies will do!
I think it is important as well that we make sure as we recruit volunteers in our ministries, that what we say we do, we do.
I have seen so many children’s ministries and churches that promote this wonderful vision, mission and core values then when you watch the everyday execution of stuff it could appear that they might be promising more than they deliver.
Doing this may land you a few volunteers for a season but they won’t stay committed.