On Sunday mornings
¨ Become a Sunday morning greeter or usher
¨ Engage with visitors before or after service
¨ Serve as a Worship Associate
¨ Make coffee around 9:30am
¨ Sweep or wash off front sidewalk on Sunday morning
¨ Serve families by being a nursery care provider or back up
¨ Provide rides to members in need of rides to church
¨ Lead or assist with family programs
¨ Teach Breeze after church
¨ Count collection money after services
¨ Bring or help with food for after service
¨ Give out notices for upcoming events
¨ Pass the donation plates
¨ Assist the Administrator (making copies, filing, accepting pledge forms, etc.)
¨ Serve as a Sunday building securer and door locker
Many Ways to Serve
¨ Membership (Kim Monette/Keri Poole)
o Join the Membership Committee
§ Make welcoming phone calls to visitors to the church
§ Send welcoming emails to visitors and invite them to attend events
§ Serve on the membership committee to review best practices, and develop/maintain a process to integrate visitors into the congregation
§ Develop, order, print brochures
§ Identify friends ready to join
§ Schedule new member classes
§ Plan New Member Recognition Sunday (and gifts)
§ Plan outreach to Gay, Trans and Pagan Pride Events
§ Coordinate outreach volunteers
§ Lead retention efforts
o Welcoming Congregation (Megan Walls)
§ Lead a training for members to learn ways to be more welcoming to a diversity of people
§ Help track congregational efforts to be welcoming
o Greeters (Bobbie Lloyd)
§ Become a Sunday morning greeter
§ Engage with visitors before or after service and handle visitor forms and name tags
o Ushers (Keri Poole)
§ Be an usher, monitor doors, hand out orders of service
§ Pass out orders of service and donation plates
o Plan and/or help with Hospitality
§ Recruit volunteers (Mary Barden)
§ Lunch and Circle Supper coordination (Bette LaCombe)
§ Organize a dinner, recreational activity and/or another group event
§ Publicize event
§ Make or buy or donate money for food/drinks, paper products, etc.
§ Help set-up and/or clean-up
§ Greet people, take tickets, handle entrance fee (staff the door)
§ Help with decorations
§ Help run AV equipment
¨ Worship (Mark Bergtholdt)
o Serve as a trained Worship Associate
o In collaboration with Minister or Lay Leader, Worship Associates
assist by finding music, videos, and readings for the service
o Help Worship Associate with straightening hymnals, stocking offering envelopes, filling the chalice, etc.
o Lead a Time for All Ages, in collaboration with Minister and Worship Associates
o Offer to light/extinguish the chalice
o Offer lay-lead worship
o Share your point of view during “Living Our UU Values”
o Lead singing or perform music
¨ Pastoral Care (Rev. Bailey)
o Serve as a Pastoral Care Associate
o Provide rides and/or meals to members in need
¨ Learn our A/V system and help run AV equipment (Keith McMillen/Geoff Poole)
o Run or assist with A/V on Sunday morning
o Help with A/V for other church events and meetings
¨ Facilities (Larry McAllister)
o Organize a work party to improve some aspect of the building
o Enhance the building by Saturday yard clean up
o Serve on the Facilities Committee to maintain the building, meet with contractors, etc.
o Share your ideas/suggestions for aesthetic improvements to our building, and organize a fund raiser, if needed for those improvements, help implement
o Bring items that are broken, worn out or in need of cleaning to the attention of our admin (or fix/clean the items yourself)
¨ Families (Rory Solomon/Ariel Sublet)
o Lead or assist with family programs
o Lead or assist with educational programs like OWL
o Help in nursery
o Plan Family Friendly events
o Provide child care for events
¨ Finance (Vernon Bell)
o Serve on the Finance Committee
o Count collection money after services
¨ Social Justice
o Provide leadership for the Social Justice Committee
o Plan or come to social justice actions (Joanne Leovy/Lisa Bailey/Mark Bergtholdt)
o Volunteer at or help run the Food Pantry, 3rd Saturday morning of month (Mary Jane Brustman)
o Organize a community service project for church members
o Join Nevadans for the Common Good core team at UUCLV or participate in actions (Karin Metcalf)
¨ Stewardship (Hilary Howarth)
o Help with the Stewardship/Pledge Drive Campaign
o Make Phone Calls, speak about your commitment to UUCLV, make thermometers to show progress toward a goal, plan a celebration
o Administer and/or help with fundraising activities
And More
¨ Small Group Ministries (Ariel Sublet)
o Join a group or organize a new group
o Serve as a Chalice Circle or Seminarium liaison
¨ Help build and maintain the website and other social media
¨ Be on a team that promotes and chooses the 50/50 offering recipients (Rosary
Fitzgerald)
¨ Serve as building monitor for outside groups using the building
¨ Manage our media actions
¨ Assist in health ministry (Joanne Leovy); donate blood (Deborah Korol)
¨ Engage in Bookies Book Club (Jane Feldman) or Many Voices Storytelling for Adults (Mary Phillips)
¨ Maintain the church library
¨ Run occasional congregational errands for minister and/or staff
¨ Involve yourself in meetings; read and understand UUCLV policies, organizational chart, and bylaws to learn how decisions are made and by whom
¨ Say yes or express your interest in serving on Board of Trustees, Nominations Committee or Audit Committee (Mary Barden)
¨ Say yes to helping with other congregational committees and groups
¨ Other ideas?___________________________________________
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