If you cannot perform this duty, trade with someone,
then communicate the changes with Tisha & Tom (with a copy to me) by Thursday.
Please reply to me when you have read this message. Thanks from Barbara Dueholm.
Please arrive 20 minutes before the service begins.
1) Put on your own nametag and a Greeter tag (in a basket on the cart in the closet.)
2) Stand at the sanctuary doorway and greet everyone, keeping an eye open for new faces. (Welcomers will help with this.)
3) Listen for the bell, five minutes before service time. When it rings, strongly encourage members remaining in the Shalom Room to enter the sanctuary, and then close the doors. [If there’s no bell, check time, close doors at 10:13.]
4) Pass the Offering Plates at the appropriate time in the service.
After collecting the offering, wait at the back of the center aisle until the Doxology is sung, then bring the offering plates to the Communion Table.
SOMETHING NEW:
(Room Setup people will do this—you just need to be aware.)
This is what is printed for Setup People:
If it has not already been set up this way, please remove a wooden chair from the normal pattern, leave a one-chair space at the end of the back row of the left-center section, next to the center aisle, in front of the small table there, with the end-space for her walker next to the aisle. Place individual "reserved" signs (in a basket on the hymnbook cart) for Kathy Alexander and Robin..
Because you may be some of the last people to enter the room, if Kathy and Robin are not able to be there (her health concerns make this a last-minute decision each week) please remove the reserved signs from their chairs so other latecomers can use them.
5) This is a Communion Sunday, and one of you MAY also be a Communion Server*,
so both of you should return up the aisle to the back of the Sanctuary to help
carry the Communion Elements to the Communion Table, if you are needed.
Return to your seat or stand at the side front until the pastor calls servers* to come forward to receive and help serve Communion. Take your cue from the pastor or Communion Preparers about what and where to serve.
*(Before the service, find out if a Greeter is needed as a Communion Server. )