Altar Guild members set up the sanctuary for all services, including the Eucharist, weddings, funerals, and special liturgies. This involves arranging the altar linens, setting out the chalice and paten, preparing the bread and wine, and ensuring that everything needed for worship is in place. They supervise decoration with flowers and greenery for regular worship as well as holidays. After the service, they clean and store sacred items, assuring that the sanctuary remains in good order.

For more information, see Susan Long.

COFFEE HOSTS

Coffee hosts provide refreshments for the coffee hour after the 10:30 AM service.

They are responsible for bringing and serving light refreshments as well as making and serving coffee. They clean up the kitchen after coffee hour.  Servers work as a pair, following a pre-set schedule.

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LAY EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

Lay Eucharistic Ministers (LEMs) are specially trained and licensed lay people who administer communion during the service.  They usually work with the rector during communion. LEMs follow a printed schedule, working one Sunday every few weeks. 

Lay Eucharistic Members are often licensed to also serve as Lay Eucharisticc Visitors (LEVs).

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LAY EUCHARISTIC VISITORS

Lay Eucharistic Visitors (LEVs) are specially trained and licensed lay people who take the consecrated bread and wine from the main worship service to members of the congregation who are unable to attend church due to illness, infirmity, or other serious reasons. They lead a brief service from the prayerbook. LEVs remind homebound members that they are part of the church family.  Please add your name if you’d like to join. 

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Lay Readers

During the 10:30 AM Sunday service, a lay reader stands at the lectern and reads the appointed Lessons, Psalm, Epistle and the Prayers of the People.  Lay readers follow a printed schedule, reading one Sunday every few weeks. 

For more information contact Susie Evans, susievestry@gmail.com

Ushers

Ushers work in pairs during the 10:30 AM Sunday service and during special services, greeting arriving parishioners, helping them to a seat, and distributing bulletins. During the service they silently count communicants, passing the count to the Lay Eucharistic Minister. Duriing the Offertory, Ushers pass the collection plates. Ushers assist communicants at the choir step. After the service, ushers tidy up, collecting bulletins, etc.

For additional information, contact Rhett Brown.