How Can I Help?

For All Ages:

Volunteers are needed to help record, edit, and post worship videos for Sunday live-streams. Please contact us at 651-646-7127 or office@comoparklutheran.org to let us know of your interest. Training and support on the church's equipment and software are provided.

FOR ADULTS:

• Greeters/Welcome Desk
  • A greeter might say, "Good morning," to you as you walk up the steps. Another person is sitting at the Welcome Desk and is ready to answer questions you or a visitor might have, and will answer the phone if it rings. That person remains at the Welcome Desk during the service and can worship while watching the screen in the Narthex.
• Ushers/Communion Preparer
  • An usher hands out bulletins, take up offerings, and directs people during communion, and sets up the bread and wine on the altar. An usher who helps with communion set-up is called a communion preparer. Behind the altar is the Working Sacristy, where the communion preparer prepares elements for communion and gets them on the altar and puts them away after the service.
• Communion Assistants
  • A communion assistant helps in handing out bread and wine to the congregation during communion.
• Readers
  • A reader leads the congregation by reading the scripture.
• Liturgists
  • A liturgist leads the congregation by singing the liturgy, prayer, and psalm.
  • CONTACT: Tom Ferry at 651-435-4176 (direct) or ferry@comoparklutheran.org
• Children's Sermon Speaker
  • Children in the congregation are asked to come forward to hear a Biblical story led by the children's sermon speaker.
• Video Technicians
  • A video technician sits at the desk at the back of the sanctuary during the service, records, edit, and livestreams the service, and resolves any technical difficulties.
• Coffee Servers
  • After the worship service, the congregation are invited to visit with one another. A coffee server serves drinks (coffee, tea, water, and/or lemonade) and light snacks.
• Bus Drivers (class B license required)
  • A bus driver brings people who are unable to drive or requests for a ride to attend the worship service.
  • CONTACT: Jonathan Nye at 651-435-4175 (direct) or jonathan@comoparklutheran.org

FOR CHILDREN:

• Acolytes
  • Youth can acolyte when they enter 6th grade. An acolyte is a confirmand who lights the candles and sits with communion.
  • CONTACT: Pastor Martin Ericson at 651-435-4172 (direct) or ericson@comoparklutheran.org
• Children are welcome to also serve as liturgists, readers, and ushers (see above).

FAQ's:

• If I volunteer, how often would I have to serve in this role?
  • If you only sign up for one role, then it would be once or twice every three months, or four to six times a year.
• How do I sign up?
  • Contact the Volunteer Engagement Coordinator, Jonathan Nye at 651-435-4175 or jonathan@comoparklutheran.org.