How Can I Find Calls For Helpers? – June 2025 

How To Find Volunteer Opportunities at Peace 
– by Dana Rice and Kathleen Keyes
 
So many great conversations have happened after our May Peace Notes article about how to find volunteer opportunities at Peace, we are inspired to update that information for the June Peace Notes, as well.  
 
These articles were inspired by our recent vision survey, in which it was revealed that many Peace members want to know more about where and how they can help out at church.  
 
As we mentioned last month, the answer that question for Sunday Services is:  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. (Email: office@peacelutheranseattle.org ; Office landline: 206-935-1962) 
 
Since last month, we have had some more suggestions and ideas for behind-the-scenes routine tasks that we could invite others in on. If they interest you, please feel invited to contact Dana Rice or Kathleen Keyes to chat:
  1. Weekly Flowers for the Altar:  Boots and Kathleen are working on a way to schedule volunteers to bring flowers for the altar each week. Please contact them to contribute to this effort, or sign up in the narthex next time you are at church. 
  2. Stocking pencils and paper in the pews:  Replacing the E-giving cards, sharpening tiny pencils, stocking donation envelopes and welcome cards, etc. Please reach out to Kathleen  or Dana on this one.
  3. Mowing grass at Peace:  If you know someone who enjoys mowing, we would love to invite them to drop by at their convenience to help out. Bonus points if they enjoy edging, as well.  We have very little grass on the property, and we are decreasing it over time, but we would welcome the help in the meantime. 
  4. Weeding, mulching and deploying arborist chips on the grounds. We are given free mulch by the City of Seattle Trees for Neighborhoods program. Our next distribution date is June 6, 2025, and we will be hauling what we can and placing it out of the way on the property for later use. Chips are available on an ongoing basis, from neighbors with chip drops to share. Dana usually transports mulch and chips with grow bags in her car. If you know someone with a suitable pickup truck, who enjoys shoveling landscape materials, please invite them to contact Dana Rice for more info.   
  5. Landscape Project Preparations – Helpers with gardening interests are invited to help brainstorm and plan upcoming projects for our landscape at Peace. For example, we are preparing the grounds for scaffolding to be installed for the building to be painted this summer. And, we are working with the Creation Care Team to plan an iterative process for care and upkeep of all plants and soil on the grounds. Please reach out to Dana Rice to help with preparing for upcoming projects. 
  6. Annual Grounds Tasks: Routine, annual tasks on the grounds that anyone is invited to help with, many times even by just anonymously dropping by to do a little at a time. Some examples:
    1. Cleaning the Little Free Pantry, to remediate its mold habit.  
    2. Removal of English Ivy that intrudes through the fence on the North side of the building.  
    3. Watering Plants and Trees: Please feel invited to help 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 🙂
  7. Web Site Content monthly updates – Pass The Hat and the Calendar: Every month, updates are made on the Peace web site based on information in the Peace Notes newsletter. If you have experience with web content management systems and would like to help out with routine updates to the site, please contact Dana Rice or the “webmaster@peacelutheranseattle.org” email. Two examples of monthly updates from the Peace Notes newsletter:
    1. The Pass The Hat Page to list this month’s partner organization.
    2. 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.) 
  8. Help suggest information for the  Serving Web Page on our web site.  To help answer the question “how can I help out at church” 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 “webmaster@peacelutheranseattle.org”. 
 

Posted by Dana Rice on May 27th, 2025

Categories: Archive, Calls For Helpers

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