Serve with us

You are not being recruited to fill a slot

Most invitations to serve arrive as a gap on a rota. Somebody left, the spreadsheet has a hole in it, and you are the shape of the hole.

That is not what this is. Serving here is how people stop attending a church and start belonging to one — not because the work is glamorous, but because you cannot hand someone a bulletin for six months without learning their name, and you cannot learn their name without a church becoming a family.

The truth is that the coffee still needs making either way. We would just rather you were the one making it, standing next to someone you have come to know.

Smaller than you are imagining

Most teams ask for one Sunday or two a month. You arrive earlier than you would otherwise, you do a specific thing, and then you go to lunch like everyone else.

There are hosts at the doors and in the lobby. There is the kids ministry, which needs steady adults far more than it needs entertaining ones. There is worship and the tech team, which needs both trained musicians and people willing to learn a camera. There is setup and teardown, which is the least visible and most quietly essential work in the building.

If you have no idea which of those you would be any good at, that is a normal place to start. Say so, and someone will walk you through it rather than handing you a form.

There is no audition

You do not need to have been a Christian for a set number of years. You do not need a skill you can name. You do not need to have your life sorted out, and if you are waiting until you do, we will be waiting a long time together.

What is genuinely needed is that you turn up when you said you would, and that you are willing to be trained. That is close to the whole list.

Whoever would be great among you must be your servant.

Matthew 20:26, ESV