Dave Sheldon 96 connections

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
• Passionate about meeting, organizing, encouraging, enlisting and instructing individuals
• Exceptional proficiency in communication, marketing, and long range planning
• Over 20 years of encouraging people to live a more fulfilled life
• Connecting people with each other and God

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:
Communication/Teaching/Preaching
• Developed team building, training and theological workshops
• Counseled families and youth in the midst of their pain
• At ease speaking in front of large groups of people
• Facilitated groups for parent/teen workshops
• Created and evaluated tools to improve the success of future events
Volunteer Management/Training/Recruiting
• Enlisted/Recruited over 80 counselors to volunteer at camps
• Supervised, trained, encouraged and developed accountability systems for volunteers
• Coordinated strategic planning for improvement of existing activities, teaching and seminars
• Managed staff from 3 - 4 interns, 1- 4 full time employees and 30 volunteers
• Supervised budgets of over $100,000
• Developed vision and direction for programs while communicating to a board of 15 members
• Developed, coordinated and managed new matrix for visitors
Marketing/Promotions of Events
• Created fliers, pamphlets and leaflets for youth programs and all church functions
• Contacted 1200 individuals via mass emails
• Generated phone and email lists to connect members with important information
• Publicized the use of a Youth Line to distribute vital information on future events and on going events
• Collaborated with other church to create an exciting and enjoyable Vacation Bible School program for pre-school through fifth grade.
Fundraising/Mission Trips/Service Projects
• Led and administrated over 15 mission trips – Bolivia, Honduras, Mexico, and Reservations
• Led and severed on countless trips to Homeless Shelters, Food Banks, Minneapolis Council of Churches Emersion Projects, The Salvation Army Food Wagon and Social Justice issues
• Constructed programs to help raise over $10,000 for a mission project to Bolivia
• Encouraged individuals to support program to help end world hunger
• Enrolled volunteers to help raise capital for different projects