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It Takes Your Help to Complete the Sunday Experience
You Can Help Make a Sunday Special
You’ve heard that it takes a village to raise a child. Well it takes a congregation to create the perfect Sunday worship experience. Here are a few ways that you can help out on Sunday once, from time-to-time or more often than that!
- Donate Altar Flowers: You’ve noticed the beautiful floral arrangements that adorn the front of sanctuary on Sunday? Ever wonder where they come from? They come from members who donate flowers to honor or remember someone or some event, or just because they want to donate flowers. A signup sheet is posted next to the elevator on the main floor. If you sign up, you’ll be contacted as the date you have chosen approaches to make arrangements for your flowers donation, and to ask how you’d like the flowers acknowledged on Sunday.
- Serve Coffee Fellowship: Sunday, after the 9:30 worship, everyone is invited to Rodgers Hall for Coffee Fellowship. The usual fare is coffee, lemonade and some kind of treat, be it cookies, coffee cake, or whatever….you get to decide. This might be too much for one individual to handle, but a couple, a family, two or three friends, or however you want to organize it will work. Find the Congregational Life Bulletin Board; there you will find a signup sheet for open dates, and step-by-step directions so complete your task easily. Come on, it will be fun!
- Scripture Reader: Be a part of the worship service. You’ll be given the scripture reading for the Sunday you’ve chosen to volunteer, and at the appointed time, come forward and read the scripture from the lectern. Again, a signup sheet for open weeks is available, all the way through 2017, on the Worship bulletin board, next to the elevator on the main level.
- Usher: Signup on the Worship bulletin board to indicate your willingness to usher. Each month someone, usually a seasoned usher will coordinated the ushers. He or she will recruit others from the list of those who have stated their willingness (that signup sheet). On Sunday you’ll arrive a few minutes earlier than usual, greet congregants at the sanctuary door and distribute bulletins, assisting anyone with special needs (think hearing devices or making room for a wheelchair). During worship you’ll help to collect the offering, and maybe lead in the prayer of dedication. On Communion Sunday, usually the first Sunday of the month, you might be asked to help serve Holy Communion as well.
- Greeters: Greet members and visitors alike on Sunday morning. Arrive early, and be at your assigned post, usually near the sanctuary entrance or near the office entrance. You’ll wear a badge that identifies you as a greeter, so that everyone, especially those visitors will know that you can direct them to the nursery, the washroom, the sanctuary or answer simple questions. a Sign-Up Genius account has been established so you can easily sign up online at : http://www.SignUpGenius.com/go/20F054BABA62DA6FC1-greeters
- Friendly Congregant: This one is easy. Greet others seated around you, whether before or after the service. It is especially important to greet those who seem to be strangers to you. Maybe they are visitors, wondering how welcoming we are. Sometimes it is not enough to advertise that we are Open and Affirming, welcoming everyone no matter who they are, or where they are on life’s journey. Often they need to see it in action. And if you happen to welcome a “stranger” who has been attending our church for seven years, you have made a new friend. Or if you’ve just forgotten meeting them before, we are Christians, and forgive unconditionally!
- Parking Lot Attendant: Okay, so we’re not so crowded on Sunday as to need anyone to direct traffic or help to park cars, at least not yet! But if you invite a friend, neighbor, co-worker and so forth to attend worship with us, we might get to that point. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?