Ways You Can Help: Administration

There are often office-like duties that could performed by someone gifted with administrative ability and organizational passion. Some can be done at home as well. This frees up pastoral leaders to deal with more appropriate tasks. Here are a few opportunities:

* Print and fold the newsletter each week. The newsletter is finished on Friday and gets emailed to the "Printer" who then prints them out (2-sided) and then folds them to bring Sun. morning. The church provides the printer and ink.

* Print and cut the prayer sheet each week. The prayer sheet is finished on Friday and gets emailed to the "Printer" who then prints them and cuts them in half. These are then brought to be shared on Sun. morning.

* Create kid packs. Every fifth Sun. we keep our children in for the entire worship service. This is to help prepare them to sit through an entire adult-geared worship service.

But even in an engaging service, a child can get sidetracked and become a distraction to others pretty quickly. We would like to keep a box "Kid packs" or "Kid Bags" that contain a number of activities and items that would help them learn about Jesus while being in the rest of their family. Ultimately, this helps us move toward families worshiping together instead of doing everything segregated.

Packets would also be used for special services like our Thanksgiving Celebration and our Christmas Eve service. They actually could be used any given week as some families wish to keep their children with them in the service every week.

This person would be responsible for creating/assembling packets so that there are enough on hand any given week. They would make preschool and children's age packets.

* Birthday and Anniversary card preparer. Someone to assist Darien in gathering the materials needed to send out cards. Includes buying postage, cards and then addressing them as well as helping him be aware of who's is this month.

* Lobby setup/clean-up. This is rather simple at this time. There are some basic materials we put out each Sun. on the lobby counters for our guests in particular (Bibles, mini-vite cards, giving envelopes, home group map). These items simple need to be displayed nicely while keeping setup/take down simple and quick.

* Help collect and send care package to our missionaries. We have a partially completed care package that needs a few more things before ship it to G and A. If you'd like to help us finish it up, let me know.

* Prayer Sheet updater. This person updates the prayer requests each week. With help from Darien they add/delete/update the prayer sheet praises and prayer requests before sending the sheet off to be printed.

If you have questions or need more information, feel free to call Darien at 832-3775.