Keeping it in Perspective

I'm struggling with the big push to a single worship experience. On one hand, I am so excited with so many new people who want to participate and I'm excited with the people that have been here for a while and are deciding to step up and help out by volunteering. On the other hand, I worry that I'm getting my hopes up too high and they will just be dashed again like the have in the past.
You see, there have been many people over the last ten years that I've been a part of this church that have stepped up and promised to help out. Some of them worked a couple of years then just stopped coming, some never even showed up for their first day of work. The problem isn't that people stopped helping, it is how they stopped. They just stopped. No notes or phone calls, just stop showing up. When asked about it, there was always something that caused the breach, but mostly they just left...and it hurts. It hurts to trust somebody and have that trust be abused. It is so frustrating that people complain they are not trained enough or learn enough yet when hours of training are put into them they just leave. I suppose that's a trust thing as well, though. I trusted they would use everything they were taught to help out but after the time was put into them, they proved that trust misplaced. I'm trying not to be callous about this, but even some of our new volunteers have said they would do something then never do it.
It will be fun to go through all the responses we received to the call for volunteers. We had those volunteer sign-up forms in the brochure on Sunday so if people are willing to fill them out, we should be able to give some of our dedicated volunteers a day off. I would like to be able to do that!