4-H Volunteers Creed

BELIEVE:
- The 4-H member is more important than the 4-H project.
- Learning how to do the project is more important than the project itself.
- 4-Hers should be their own best exhibits.
- No award is worth sacrificing the reputation of a member or a volunteer.
- Competitions should be given no more emphasis than other fundamentals of 4-H work.
- Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.
- To learn by doing is fundamental in any sound educational program and is characteristic of the 4-H program.
- Generally speaking, there is more than one good way to do most things.
- Every 4-H member needs to be noticed, to feel important, to win and to be praised (volunteers, too).
 Our job as a volunteer is to teach 4-H member how to think, not what to think.

Volunteers Making a Better Tomorrow Today is the theme of National Volunteer Week. The 4-H Volunteers Creed illustrates the importance our program places on volunteers developing capable and competent youth. 4-H volunteers are some of our greatest assets and resource. These valuable individuals donate their precious time, creative talents and physical resources to our 4-H members and the program.

Volunteers inspire the people they help and they inspire others to serve. Now it is our turn to step forward and inspire by example.