Ministries
Serving Jesus Christ in and through the ministries of Trinity Church
Trinity Church has many opportunities to serve. This brochure gives you an overview about what is involved in each ministry and how you might contribute. If God has given you the gifts of time and talent to serve in one or more of these ministries please indicate your desire to participate. If you have been gifted in some way for which we have not provided an opportunity to serve, please describe what and how you would like to minister in this parish by using ‘Other…’ at the bottom of this form.
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8 AM Worship Focus Group A focus group that meets with the Rector to discuss ideas about the way worship is conducted at the 8 a.m. service.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) 10 AM Worship Focus Group A focus group that meets with the Rector to discuss ideas about the way worship is conducted at the 10 a.m. service.
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I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Altar Guild. Preparing the altar is for many a real spiritual connection with our Lord. Open to men and women, members prepare the altar and church for Sunday or weekday liturgies. You will be trained to work with a partner and be scheduled about once per month. You don’t have to iron! Opportunities available to set up for Wednesdays or Thursdays only!
Altar Guild prepares for the Eucharist
Eucharistic Minister. Any baptized member 16 years of age or older may serve the sacred wine and bread at the Holy Eucharist. Training is provided. Eucharistic Ministers often assist the acolytes in their duties.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Healing Prayer Team. Any baptized person may participate in this ministry. Teams pray with people in the chapels after they take communion. You would probably be scheduled about once per month, and you are always part of a team.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Lectors. Assist in the leadership of worship at Trinity by reading the lessons or leading the prayers of the people. Anyone grade 7 or above is welcome! Coaching is provided. You would be scheduled about once per month.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Cherub Choir Staff. Adults who work with the Godly Play children who will sing monthly.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Adult Choir. It consists of over 30 amateur and professional singers that provide anthems and leads congregational music for the 10 a.m. Eucharist. If you can carry a tune, you are welcome to join us, and prior choir experience is not required. The Trinity Choir rehearses on Thursday evenings at 7:30 in the Parish Hall.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Youth Choir. Under the able direction of our Music Director, Steve Schreiber, girls and boys, ages 8 and up, meet every Thursday from 5:30 to 6:00 for rehearsal. The Youth Choir vests, processes, and usually sings once a month at the 10 a.m. Eucharist as well as the other major festivals of the Church Year.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Ushers. Women or men who serve in this ministry distribute bulletins at the 10 a.m. service, gather the offering, provide a count for and see that the bread and wine for communion are brought forward, and assist the congregation in moving to the altar rail at communion time. Ushers also warn the young ones in Christian formation that it is about time to come to the service. Ushers are scheduled about once per month.
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Greeters. One of the most important ministries in any church is to make visitors and newcomers feel welcomed. The greeter’s primary task is to welcome visitors as they arrive. Greeters serve about once every six weeks.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) After Worship Hosts. Following worship the rector directs visitors to the hosts who ask the visitor to give us information about themselves. The host engages in friendly conversation and introduces the visitor to other parishioners. You leave worship during the last hymn so that you are at the back door to receive the visitor.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Sunday Evening Pot Luck. Pot Luck dinners occur four times a year. This team plans, promotes, and does the setup.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Coffee Hour Hosts. Having a time of informal conversation so that long-time and new members can chat informally is invaluable to the life of congregation and a cup of coffee and a nibble or two makes it happen. Hosts make the coffee and hot water for tea, provide the simple goodies, set the service table and clean up afterwards. You serve less than once per month.
Funeral Hospitality. This team, when requested by the family, hosts funeral receptions.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Kitchen Crew. If you would like to be on a list of folks who may be called to assist with cooking, set-up, or clean-up for special dinners and other food-related events, please check off kitchen crew. It’s just a lot of fun getting ready or cleaning up after a great occasion, and working together is a great way to build new friendships.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Youth Group. Youth Group is open to kids grades 6 and up for a variety of fun activities, learning experiences, and service to the church and the community. A schedule is sent to each participant of the various events.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Youth Group Leaders. Men or women over 21 years of age who love God and love kids can have an immeasurable impact on the spiritual formation of young people and have a whole lot of fun doing it.
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Nursery Assistants. Assist with the care of our youngest members so that their parents may attend church. Most of the time in the nursery is free-form, but there is a simple curriculum for these children. Assistants do not attend 10 a.m. worship, but may go into church when communion is served or they may stay in the nursery where the Celebrant brings communion to them and the kids. The nursery is staffed every Sunday and major holy days. Assistants would serve one Sunday a month.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Godly Play Assistants. These folks assist the story tellers by supervising the children so that the story tellers attention might be focused on the story.
Godly Play Storyteller & Assistants
Seasons of the Spirit - Leaders. This great group of 8-11 year olds leave worship at the beginning of the recessional (about 11 a.m.) each Sunday except the first Sunday of the month.. The curriculum is very easy to use and is based on the Sunday’s readings. Leaders would probably need about an hour of preparation for each session they lead.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Stewardship Team. This team includes a cross-section of the parish and is responsible for planning and implementing the annual pledge campaign but most importantly it is charged with providing creative, year-round opportunities for learning about stewardship as the offering of our whole selves to God. No experience necessary. The group meets about once a month and more often during pledge season.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Baptismal Preparation Team – Celebration Assist in organizing the post Baptismal celebration that follows in the Narthex and Parish Hall. The group meets four times a year.
Baptismal Preparation Team – Celebration
Pastoral Care Committee. This committee oversees the pastoral care ministries and meets on an ‘as needed’ basis.
Take flowers to our homebound. Until you have been confined to a hospital bed or to your home, you will never know what joy flowers from the altar bring. You can provide this joy to Trinity’s shut-ins by delivering flowers after the service on the first Sunday of the month.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Pastoral Care Givers. Pastoral Care Givers are trained by the chaplaincy office of Episcopal Community Services and minister under the direction of the Rector. They are assigned to homebound members who would benefit with a visit from the parish about every other week. Pastoral Care Givers also make hospital calls as assigned by the Rector.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Eucharistic Visitors. In the very first churches, the sacrament was taken immediately from the service to those who could not be at worship. After some training, these ministers take the sacrament from the altar, even before the final hymn, to our sick and homebound members. Eucharistic Visitors are appointed by the Rector, trained through the Diocese, and licensed by the Bishop.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Food for Friends. From time to time, emergencies crop up in families, the stress from which could be greatly reduced by the provision of a meal or two. If you would be willing to prepare a casserole to freeze for such a time or would like to be part of an occasional cooking party, this is for you!
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Provide Ride. Sundays - It’s a fact that sometimes people cannot get to church because they cannot drive. Individuals who have an extra seat in their car could provide the wonderful gift of transportation to and from church for someone. Weekdays - Provide rides for parishioners who temporarily need transportation.
Mission and Outreach Committee. Oversees many projects and makes outreach allocations from the parish budget and funds raised from events like the carnival and rummage sale.
Community Cupboard. Drivers are needed to carry the food donated at Trinity on Sunday mornings to the Food Cupboard on Butler Pike in downtown Ambler on Monday mornings.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Ministry with St. Mary’s. Over the years we have participated in a number of different ministries with St. Mary’s Villa for Children, the children’s home across the street from the church. This past year we provided Easter Baskets. We need people to organize the candy, gifts, books and baskets for Easter. All of these opportunities bring joy to these kids through sharing in these projects, please check it on your ministry form.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Real Men Cook. There are currently three teams of men that gather once a month to prepare frozen meals to be delivered to homebound persons, through Episcopal Community Services, to people in Philadelphia. A weekday driver delivers the meals to the ECS distribution location.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) ECS Christmas Gifts. A coordinator plans the parish’s involvement with this annual program of providing gifts to children in need in Philadelphia through Episcopal Community Services. The coordinator gets a list of names of kids and their likes, puts each name on a tag that is then hung on a Christmas tree in the Narthex. Parishioners take those tags, purchase the gift and return the gifts with the tags attached. The gifts are brought to the altar and blessed, and the coordinator then arranges for them to be delivered to ECS.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Quilts for Children. A group of Trinity quilters make quilts for children. Currently they are making quilts of different sizes and designs for the children at St. Mary’s Villa.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Prayer Shawl Ministry. Trinity knitters pray as they knit prayer shawls that when completed are brought to the altar for blessing. They are distributed to people for spiritual and physical comfort.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Interfaith Housing Alliance. A team of members of Trinity have an opportunity one week a year to serve as overnight hosts, to provide meals, to provide transportation, to do laundry for folks living at Trinity or a buddy church.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Delaware County Housing Coalition. From time to time throughout the year members of Trinity have an opportunity to do hands on work alongside future homeowners building or rehabilitating low income housing. Men and women of all ages are able to participate.
The Carnival needs many hands.
Folders, stuffers, labelers, staplers. Assistants are needed from time to time to mail the newsletter, prepare special mailings or prepare other printed materials. Folks have a great time talking and laughing as they do this work. Those who sign up will be called as needed.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Office Assistants. Assistants work in the parish office answering phones and doing other light clerical duties.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Telephone Chain. Every once in a while information needs to go out to the congregation more personally than first class mail or a bulletin announcement. If you agree to be a part of the telephone chain, you will be assigned no more than 12 members and their telephone numbers to contact when the chain is activated. The need to use the telephone chain probably would not exceed three times in a year.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Tellers. Each Sunday following the 10 a.m. service, teams of two or three people count the offering, record the envelopes and prepare the bank deposit. Teems serve about once per month.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Chimes Assistants. Assistants are needed for photography, and article writing for Trinity’s monthly newsletter. If you have interest in any of these areas, sign up NOW!!
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Sign Board Messenger. Studies suggest that church sign boards attract the most attention when they include witty messages which are regularly changed. You would be provided messages to put up every other week. It takes about 20 minutes.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Communications Committee. Do you have experience … skills … interest … in communications within our parish and to the community? This committee decides policy on the website, newsletter, and bulletin boards.
Human Resources Committee. A team with the responsibility of seeking ways the church can improve its employment practices, both to comply with laws and to create a positive, professional environment for staff. Specifically, this ministry oversees the major activities of: Employment Law, Hiring Process, and Human Resource Policies.
Grounds Committee. This group oversees the Love a Lots and the care of church grounds.
Grounds Workers. Several times a year workers assemble to clean up the grounds or tackle special projects like regrading and seeding.
Grounds Workers moved heaven (rain runoff) & earth
Property Committee. This group plans for the care and maintenance of the church, the rectory, the sexton’s cottage. People who have knowledge of these issues can provide an invaluable service to the congregation.
I am interested in this. (Please enter name at bottom of form.) Honey-do-Club. Men and women are invited to join a group who save the parish thousands of dollars each year by performing small repair and maintenance projects around the church.
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