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“S” TEAM (Captain: Morris Moore) Purpose: Initiate a relationship with Sunday visitors and other Special Event Guest (i.e. Egg Hunt, VBS, Fall Festival, UPWARD)
Description: Assist the ministerial staff in maintaining contact with new prospects for our church.
Scriptures: Hebrews 13:2 “Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.”
2 Corinthians 6:2 “I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.”
"H” TEAM (Captain: Ellis Anderson) Purpose: Hospital, Homebound and Nursing Home Visitation
Description: Work with the weekly Hospital Visitation Team in the visitation of Hospital, Homebound and Nursing Home members. Maintain a regular schedule of visitation to these specific groups. Contact the Church Office on a regular basis to learn of new needs as they arise.
Scriptures: Matthew 10:42 “And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.” James 1:27 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. Gal. 6:2 “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” “A” TEAM (Co-Captains: Joe Moody/Buddy Pope) Purpose: Action Projects
Description: Identify and plan projects for deacons (with or without the assistance of other groups) of the church to execute. These may include yard/house work, construction projects requiring remodeling and/or repair of homes for Homebound Members, Widows or Members not physically able.
Scriptures: Matthew 10:42 “And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.” James 1:27 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” Gal. 6:2 “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” “R” TEAM (Co-Captains: Ron Finch/Eddie Cross) Purpose: Respond to Benevolent Needs and Emergencies
Description: Meet special benevolent needs as they arise during church services/events and any other times called upon. When appropriate, work alongside the Benevolence Committee when special benevolence requirements are identified and respond to emergency situations such as hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.
Scriptures: Romans 12:13 “Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.” Matthew 7:8-10 “For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. “ Matthew 5:42 “Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.” Luke 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” “I” TEAM (Captain: Joe Debrow) Purpose: Inactive Church Member/Non-Sunday School Member Ministry
Description: Provide the inactive church member and the non-Sunday School member with the similar ministry as the Sunday School member receives. Regularly contact the Care Group Leaders to discover needs and minister to those needs.
Scriptures: Luke 14:23 “Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full. Romans 15:1-2 “We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. 2 Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.” 2 Timothy 2:15 “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.” “N” TEAM (Captain: Randy Torbert) Purpose: New Member Visitation
Description: Visit members who have recently joined the church. Deliver church information packets and answer questions as needed. Acquire information about where the new member would like to serve. Become a point of contact for the new member. Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” I Peter 1:22-23 “Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. Romans 12:1-6 “1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. 3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us.” “G” TEAM (Captain: Drew Hansen) Purpose: Greeter/Guide
Description: Greet people as they enter the church and help them to locate Sunday School classes and other rooms/offices/groups as required. Work with the Sunday School Greeters.
Scriptures: 2 Cor. 13:12 “Greet one another with a holy kiss. 13 All God’s people here send their greetings.”
Isaiah 55:1 1 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. Hebrews 13:1-2 1 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. 2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.” Hebrews 10:23-25 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. |
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