Our new music season will be starting after Labor Day. The adult choir rehearsals will resume on Thu. 9/6/12 from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. We welcome all existing members back and look forward to some new members joining to help us make a bigger, more joyful sound.

If you’ve been debating whether to join the choir, now’s a good
time to try it out. Everyone will start fresh, and we will be learning new material together. If you are not sure, just come to the first few rehearsals and get your feet wet. You won’t know if you’ll like it unless you give it a go.

We’re also planning to have the bell choir more regularly involved by playing once a month during a morning service. This means we need dedicated ringers who can commit to playing each month. Ability to read music is preferable. The “ringing” choir will rehearse on Thursday evenings from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m., prior to the “singing” choir.

Over the next few months, we will be getting ready to try out a new plan for worship leadership starting in January 2013. Our idea is to create seven “Worship Teams,” with each team led by a captain. Each worship team will include ushers, greeters, welcomers, communion assistants, an acolyte, a reader, and so on.  Each team will serve only seven times in the entire year, covering every Sunday except Easter, Christmas, and the Sunday following Christmas. For special holidays, we’ll recruit individuals instead.

The purpose of the worship teams is to organize our Sunday morning leadership so that we’ll have fewer last-minute scrambles to find the leaders we need; and so that it will be easier for volunteers to plan ahead. So, if you would be willing to commit to something like being an usher just seven times over the course of the year, this is a simple and brief, but important way to support the worship ministry of our church. We are especially looking for our seven captains, who will help their teams remember the schedule, and will help find substitutes when needed. Please talk to Jack Morris or Pastor Rachael if you’d like to help out as a captain. We’ll begin a survey in the bulletin and by email this October as a way to sign up for the various worship assistance positions.