VOLUNTEER
One of the key identities of LCC Caloundra is that we are servants, and as servants we give.
We give to one another, sharing our gifts, resources, time, energy, finances and anything else we have at our disposal so that we can faithfully steward the varied grace that the Lord has given us. We do this out of earnest love for one another, because we have experienced the earnest love of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Peter 4:8-11).
Our hope with serving at LCC Caloundra is for each of us to serve each other in some capacity, serving in areas that help us to both grow and flourish.
Below, you will find the areas to serve in, plus a brief description of the roles.
Once you’ve had a read through, please click the ‘Sign-Up to volunteer’ button below to indicate the how you would like to serve.
Life Kids and/or Creche Team.
This role requires you to help support/coordinate the Life Kids and Creche program. You’d need to be there early, and you would miss out on the sermon for that week. Some training is required as well as an up-to-date Blue Card. Hit the button below to see the tasks that you will need to complete for this role:
Music Team.
This role requires you to have a decent measure of musical ability either in singing or playing an instrument. If you can’t sing, we still love you, but we probably won’t be giving you a microphone. You would be required to arrive early for rehearsal and work with the team.
Tech.
This is running the sound desk or putting the lyrics on the screen. The sound desk requires a bit of knowledge and experience, whereas the lyrics is pretty straight forward. You would need to be there early on the day that you’re rostered on.
Muscles.
This is super simple, but also super vital. It requires putting out the chairs (two rows of 7 with an aisle down the middle) and the signs, making sure that everything is in its right place, and packing up afterwards.
Smiles.
First impressions are important, and feeling welcomed is often the difference between someone staying at a church or leaving. You need to know how to smile and make small talk.
Meeting manager
The Meeting Manager oversees the whole shindig, ensuring everyone has what they need to complete their tasks, and is supported in the roles that they have.
HOW WE DO ALL OF THIS:
There are a few principles that guide the way we want to serve serve:
Serving should be both a challenge and a joy. Jesus Christ served us by giving his life to us for the joy that was set before him. Serving ought to be a joyful experience. To that end, we always encourage people to nominate an area that they would really enjoy serving as well as an area that would stretch them.
Church isn’t a machine, and we’re not cogs. We don’t want to be burning one another out with our expectations, so while it’s important that we’re serving at least once per month, it’s our policy that no one should be serving more than twice per month, and where we can help it, we try to not let someone serve two weeks in a row. This can’t always be helped, especially when people are unavailable or when there are five Sunday’s in a particular month, but we do our best.
Good structures protect people. We want to be as organised and as diligent as we can because a good and well-maintained structure allows us to keep these principles. We use an online platform called Elvanto which helps us stay organised, and our simple request is that we do our best to reply to serving invite emails, and keep our unavailabilities up to date. That might not make sense now, but when you start using the app, it will.