Who Else Makes Services Happen? (apart from the Clergy and the Readers)
Our Sunday Morning Parish Communion at 9.30am has a whole team of helpers. There are:
The choir and the Director of Music and/or organist
The Bell Ringers
The people who read the lessons
The people who write and say the prayers
The Sacristans who set out the Communion vessels
The Churchwardens, Deputy Churchwardens, Sidespeople and Stewards who welcome people, take the collection, organise the hymns books and tidy up
The people who lead and help at the Sunday School
The team who arrange the flowers, and
The people that serve the tea and coffee.
Other services require teams to perform many similar rôles, and occasionally involve the same busy individuals. In other cases, however, the service will include a group particular to its identity – for example, the Sunday @ 11:30 Music Group.
