Service Opportunities
There are so many ways you can serve the Lord at City Road--anything from leading a Sunday School class to baking a batch of cookies--and everything in between! The following are a majority of the service opportunities available at our church, listed under our different ministry categories. Check them out to see what matches with your gifts. If you know you have a gift to share not listed here, let us know!
RADICAL HOSPITALITY
Sunday Morning Greeter
Decorating Sanctuary/Special Events i.e. Advent, Easter
Set Up, Serve, and/or Clean Up for Wednesday Night Dinner
Help with Men's Steak Night
Help with Women's Special Events
Help with church-wide social events
Make coffee for WelcomeCenteron Sunday mornings
Memorial Meals
Call absentee members
Visitor Guide (show visitors around)
Assemble visitor packets
Shepherd a new member
Photograph new members
Visit/Call Visitors
Flower Delivery to Hospitals
Comforting Care Ministry
Send cards, packages & info to military members
Coordinate Card Ministry
Help assemble care packages for college students
Send notes to college students
Maintain website or Facebook for College Students
Drive the bus for various events
Give someone a ride to worship/special events
Room in the Inn
Help organize/work at various special events, ie Breakfast
with Santa, Trunk or Treat, Easter Egg Hunt
Participate in a Softball League and/or Volleyball League
INTENTIONAL FAITH DEVELOPMENT
Host a Small Group Study in Your Home Lead a Small Group Study in Someone’s Home
Participate in Prayer Ministry Teach Adult Sunday School
Lead an adult small group Bible study Sunday School Secretary
Write devotional for Advent or Lent Help with Church-wide Retreat
Help with Men’s Prayer Breakfast Help with Vacation Bible School Planning Comm.
Help with Vacation Bible School Teach or Assist Children’s Sunday School
Help w/Wed. Night Children's Music/Bible Study Help in nursery
Clean toys/crib sheets in nursery Lead or assist adult small group
Teach or sub for Youth Sunday School class Assist with Youth Sunday night activities
Coordinate Youth Sunday night suppers Provide Youth Sunday night supper
Coordinate or help with a Youth fundraiser Chaperone a Youth offsite trip/retreat
Be a “Friend in Faith” to a Confirmation Youth Assist with Youth on Wednesday night
RISK-TAKING MISSION & SERVICE
Sunday’s Table Room in the Inn
Meals on Wheels Work at Bloodmobile
Local Mission Projects (community workdays) Mission Trip Team
Hospital Visitation Ministry Caring Partners
Help lead or partcipate in a wellness event/activity
Participate in United Methodist Women Help with bulletin boards
Work on website expansion and updating
Assist in scanning records for computer storage
Write articles in history for print, on-line Web sites or blogs, or inclusion in church programs
Transcribe oral history interviews
Help document events in church through video, photography, writing, audio or other means
Read to Child Care children (1 x per month) Quarterly Child Care workday
Help with Child Care fundraisers Help with Child Care craft projects
Help escort Child Care children to library Child Care Sewing projects
Help organize library for Child Care Help with Child Care snacks
Help with Child Care Teacher Appreciation
PERSONAL GROWTH
- Teach Adult Sunday School
- Lead an adult small group Bible study
- Sunday School Secretary
- Help with Church Library
- Write devotional for Advent or Lent
- Maintain kitchen
- Light building maintenance
- Lawn/Garden Care
- Sunday morning Greeter
- Contact visitors/possible members
- Assemble visitor packets
- Shepherd a new member
- Photograph new members
- Visit Visitors
- Call Visitors
CONGREGATIONAL CARE
- Hospital Visitation Ministry
- Caring Partners (homebound care)
- Flower Delivery to Hospitals
- Memorial Meals
- Call absentee members
- Participate in Prayer Ministry
- Take communion to shut ins
- Help assemble care packages for college students
- Send notes to college students
- Bake cookies for various events
- Comforting Care Ministry (Make Casseroles, Send Cards and/or Deliver Casseroles)
- Drive the bus on Sunday morning
- Drive the bus for various events
- Give someone a ride to worship/special events
- Address special mailings
- Answer phone in church office
- Fold, label & seal newsletter (Tuesday afternoon)
- Place registration pads in Sanctuary
- Enter attendance data
- Help collate materials (Advent book, etc.)
CHILDREN'S MINISTRY
- Help with YCF (gr. 4-6)
- Purchase supplies for the Resource Room or Sunday School
- Help with VacationBibleSchool Planning Comm.
- Help with VacationBibleSchool
- Lead Children’s Church
- Teach Children’s Sunday School
- Assist in Children's Sunday School
- Help w/Wed. Night Children's Music/Activities
- Help in nursery
- Clean toys/crib sheets in nursery
- Help organize/work at Breakfast with Santa
- Help organize/work at Fall Event
- Help organize/work at other special event
YOUTH MINISTRY
- Lead or assist with a small group on Wed. night
- Teach or sub for Youth Sunday School class (full or part-time)
- Assist with Sunday night activities
- Coordinate Sunday night suppers
- Provide Sunday night supper
- Coordinate or help with a youth fundraiser
- Chaperone an offsite trip/retreat
- Assist with "Church of Rock" Youth Band