How Can I Find Volunteer Opportunities at Peace?
Our recent vision survey revealed many Peace members wanting to know more about where and how they can help out at church.
To answer that question for Sunday Services, Kathleen Keyes is the volunteer coordinator all of the duties listed in the “Serving in Worship” section of Peace Notes. She manages the volunteer rotation for all of the live production services – Lectors, Ushers, Greeters, Liturgical Assistants, Acolytes, Altar Care, Communion Assistants, Coffee Servers, Counters, Tech Team, Children’s message, etc. Please contact her at the Peace Office to ask about those opportunities.
As someone who has found a few “off stage” things to help with, I have recently been responding to the survey request by pausing for a moment while jumping into a task and asking myself if I could invite other helpers who may be interested. I have thought of a few behind-the-scenes routine tasks that I could invite others in on. If they interest you, please feel invited to contact Dana Rice or Kathleen Keyes to chat:
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Patio Seating and Tool Storage: A popular suggestion in the vision survey was that we could add more seating on the patio. Larry and I have been pondering some options, but we would like to invite more ideas on if we can combine this wish with a second need, tool storage so that we can invite gardening helpers who don’t own tools to volunteer at their own convenience. We may also decide that these two needs require separate solutions, but if you or someone you love is a creative thinker around patio seating and garden tool storage solutions, we would love to engage their brains in this question.
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Annual Grounds Tasks: We have routine, annual tasks on the grounds that anyone is invited to help with, even anonymously. Two examples:
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Cleaning the Little Free Pantry, to remediate its mold habit.
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Removal of the English Ivy that intrudes through the fence on the North side of the building. I use a geologist’s rock hammer for this, being careful not to damage the Lilac roots, and picking up every leaf and vine to put in the yard waste, to avoid regrowth. (This doesn’t have to be done all at once.)
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Watering Plants and Trees: It’s never too early to think about helping with our Watering Team in the warmer months. There is only one rule to watering on Peace grounds, to Check All Five Spigots Before We Leave and Make Sure They Are Turned Off 🙂
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Web Site Content monthly updates – Pass The Hat and the Calendar: Every month, I take my copy of the Peace Notes and update a few things on the Peace Web Site. If you have experience with web content management systems and would like to help out with adding content to the site, please contact Dana or the “webmaster” email address. Two examples of monthly updates from the Peace Notes newsletter:
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The Pass The Hat Page to list this month’s partner organization.
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The PLC Calendar to reflect the details of this months’ events. (Most calendar events are recurring, so this is adding a few unique things as needed.)
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Stocking pencils and paper in the pews: I recently learned the process behind stocking the tiny pencils, donation envelopes and welcome cards in the pews, and I am happy to teach others. Kathleen Keyes trained me, so feel free to reach out to either of us on this one.
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Suggest information for the Serving Web Page on our web site. To help answer this question for others, we are inviting suggestions for the content on the “Serving” web page. If you have some ideas for the content (just the words, for now) for that site, please send them to our PLC Web Team at the “webmaster” email account.
Thank you for reading this far! I look forward to more conversations on this topic. 🙂 – Dana
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