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Service Teams
Service teams help set up the church for the
09:15 Sunday
service, greet worshippers as they arrive, ensure that people are
ready to do jobs such as taking the collection, check
that
readers are present, and generally see to it that things run
smoothly in the background. You can get a better idea of what
they do from the checklist below.
The duty
comes around for each team once every 5 weeks or so. If you
are
interested in helping by joining a team, please talk to Ken or Sue, the
churchwardens.
Service Team Rosters
Click the month you
require to see the rosters for service teams, readers, etc.
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June
2009
May
2009
April
2009
March
2009
February
2009
January 2009
Sidesman's Checklist 9:15
am Service
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Before Service
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Lights.
Check appropriate lights are on (switches under tower and by vestry
door). Normally
all of the lights in the nave. If the chancel/high altar is
being used, or if it looks particularly gloomy, also switch on the
chancel spotlights (the switches are by the vestry door).
There are also switches for 2 sets of the nave lights by the south door
to find your way in and out at night.
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Candles.
Check appropriate altar candles are lit (lighter in vestry if you need
it). Normally
the 2 candles on the altar in front of the screen, but may include
others, especially at Easter or Christmas - check with the officiating
priest. Also ensure that one candle by the prayer table/sand
bowl at the cross-aisle is lit.
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Collection
Bags. Fetch collection bags from vestry (top
left drawer opposite safe). Normally 2 will be sufficient,
but if the church is very full, consider using more.
Arrange sufficient people to take the collection.
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Hymn
Numbers. Put up Hymn numbers & Eucharistic Prayer
to be used on boards (hymns from list on notice board in vestry if you
are lucky; otherwise from Director of Music, organist, or a member of
the ministry team). Check with clergy for correct Eucharistic
Prayer. Put hymns annotated HC on right hand
board under the Eucharistic Prayer letter.
During the Service
After Service
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Take collection to vestry to count.
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DO
NOT open envelopes. Put envelope donations
together in a separate cloth bag and then in safe.
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Count
collection (two people): record
the service date and time, breakdown of notes and coins, total, and
your name, on collection slip.
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Copy
the service details and total from collection slip into exercise book
(kept in top left-land drawer opposite the safe).
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Put collection slip, with the cash collection, in a
bank bag and place in
combination box inside safe (see a churchwarden or member
of the ministry team for access).
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On those occasions when we have an organist,
he or she needs to be paid a £25 fee. If a
churchwarden is present, they will normally ensure that the fee is
paid. However, if neither are at a service it falls to the
sidesman team. You should find a small fabric purse in the
vestry safe containing one or more bank bags each containing
£25. If the cash collection for a service is £25 or
more, and there is not at least one spare fee in the purse,
take £25 from the bag to pay the organist, and mark that you
have done so on the collection slip.
Instructions
for Readers
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