KINDS OF SERVICE

What kind of service have groups engaged in or contributed?  It is wide ranging:

**Sign up for all the ancillary chores on a Sunday morning:  greeting, lighting the chalice, bringing the flowers, serving at coffee hour, supplying the music.

**Running the All Church Services Auction (and repeating the next year).

**Supplying a work crew to be auctioned off for a day of work.

**Making desserts for the Canvass Kickoff Dinner

**One group Christmas shopped together for a family, homeless because of domestic violence, that they had adopted through the Family Violence Project, then repaired to the church for wrapping and hot chocolate.  The next year they adopted two.

**Another group painted the church garage.  Took two evenings and they may have picked up the Building and Grounds chair who was working with them.

**Another group led a Sunday Service, successfully expanding from the Poetry Session topic.

Groups might show up for the work day or provide a reception after a Memorial Service.  They have stripped and repainted classrooms or provided the crews for a potluck supper.

I don't even know what else, because they don't necessarily tell me.

New groups usually take a while to get around to this.  The business of forming a real covenant and establishing a working group is plenty of work.  But I encourage groups, after a couple of months, to tackle the "Service Session" topic from our collection of sessions.  Some groups jump right in, some take a while to get around to actually doing something.  One group has flatly declined.