Worship Helpers

Lay Readers

Please check in with Kevin just before the service starts so he knows you are here. Feel free to sit wherever you would like during the service.

Please come up to the pulpit/ambo to share the reading(s). At the conclusion of the final reading, pause, then say “May God help us to find truth and guidance in these words.” (This is on a plaque on both the pulpit/ambo and the portable podium we use from time to time.) We also appreciate your leading the prayer after the offering – ‘Prayer of Dedication’. Come up to the front as the music starts and the ushers begin their walk down the center aisle returning with the offering plates … stand there on the floor with Kevin at the base of the steps and when the singing has ceased, simply say something like: “Please join us in our Prayer of Dedication... [then start the prayer slowly so people can jump in with you…]”

Greeters

Thank you very much for agreeing to welcome members, friends and visitors on Sunday mornings. Please arrive at the Hospitality Table (just inside the main doors) at 9:40am. Familiarize yourself with what is on the table and literature rack adjacent to the table.

Give a friendly smile and handshake to people upon their arrival. Introduce yourself. Please identify visitors* and ask them to fill out nametags and then ‘pass them along’ to someone else in the Gathering Space who can help them get acclimated -- so you are available to greet the next folks. The idea is to do whatever we can to make our visitors feel comfortable and at home in our sacred space and faith family.

*Some people are hard pressed to discern a visitor from a member. It’s OK to say something authentic like – “We’ve met… but I’m sorry I don’t recall your name” or “Have we met before?” or “If you don’t have a nametag on the cabinet over by the office, please make yourself one here. We would like to know you by name.”

Flowers

Thank you for your contribution of flowers/plants for the chancel area (please note ‘flowers’ on your $30 check). A Sanctuary Committee member will check with you for your preferences – i.e., colors, whether they are in memory of someone or to celebrate a birthday. If you do not take them home after the worship service, they will be delivered to church members/friends in the hospital, nursing home, or others who need a reminder that they are not alone.

Pastries

Please bring approximately 150 pieces… cookies, donut holes, cake, brownies/bars and/or fruit or veggies – people do a variety of things!

Please arrange on three trays (trays are located in the kitchen in the cabinet near the phone) and set them out in the Gathering Space — two on the table by the bulletin board and the other on the table on the edge of the carpeted and tiled area— at about 9:30am as people will be arriving to have fellowship, coffee and refreshments then. The person in charge of pastries is not responsible for cleanup.

Ushers

This is a copy of what is in the black USHER binder kept in the cabinet just to the right of the middle sanctuary doors.