That hurts

First off, let me say that I am not a 'joiner'. I've always been a loner who got along fairly well with everyone but never had a large group of close friends. So when I started going to my current church I amazed myself by actually started getting involved. I started volunteering, joining small groups, doing all of these things that were totally against my previous way of being. And it felt great!
But life gets in the way of even the best lifestyle changes. I had another child, I went to graduate school. I ceased being the automatic go-to person for whatever was needed. So I stepped back for a bit, to give myself some breathing room and to let others get a chance to volunteer. Apparently that didn't sit too well with the church leadership, though, because now not only am I not a go-to person, I'm now an invisible person. I've finished grad school and adjusted to having two kids. I'm unemployed and looking, but in this economy there aren't too many prospects out there. I would love to fill my days with volunteer work, but my offers to help have been ignored. I get the, "I'll get back to you", that never happens.
Just a few minutes ago I found out that our Vacation Bible School, which I have had a huge hand in coordinating the past couple of years, has been handed off to someone else who has been only minimally involved without even a token email asking me if I'd like to be involved. It hurts to be so blatantly excluded. I've sloughed off the lack of acknowledgement for what I have done, because that's not why I did it. Yes, it's nice to be thanked for your efforts but not being thanked isn't a reason to not do it.
But when you ask for volunteers and complain about getting the same people over and over, maybe you should look at why no one else is volunteering. Maybe you have people trying to volunteer, you just aren't paying attention to offers that don't come from the favored few.
I've tried, I've really tried, to roll with the punches and accept the slights. But this one was the proverbial straw. I am re-learning the lesson I took from the Navy (IOW- Never Again Volunteer Yourself). If you want my help, come ask me, because I'm not offering anymore.