From small tasks that require only thirty minutes to some positions that require three-year commitments, there are all kinds of jobs for volunteers. Some of the activities listed here don’t involve work, just joining in for fun.

Volunteer Sign-Up Calendar

 
Magnification Team -
Strengthening Worship
 
 

• Ushers - greet attendees, answer visitors’ questions, assist in seating, distribute bulletins, collect the offering , direct worshipers to altar for Communion, straighten worship area after service, general guidance and “welcome wagoning”. Time commitment: from 10 minutes before until 10 minutes after a service. Sign up online or; for 10:30 AM service, contact lead usher, John Condie; for other worship services, contact a Magnification Team leader, Ann Duft or Laura Stransky.

• Tellers – collect offering plates from sanctuary, count and record offering money after second service on Sunday. Time commitment is about 1 hour and training is available for beginners. Contact: Church Financial Secretary, Margaret Hjermstad

• Communion Assistants – Three individuals per weekend service (more for larger special services) assist pastor in serving Communion. Serve wine and pick up wine cups. Time commitment: 10 minutes during service. Sign up online or contact: talk to pastor or lay assistant in Welcome Center immediately prior to beginning of service.

• Readers- read the first and second bible lessons and occasionally the Psalm. Open to anyone willing to read in public. Time commitment: 10 minutes during the service time. Sign up online or contact: Pastor John.

• Soundboard Assistants- operate soundboard, set up microphones and monitors for service assistants, including musicians, provide hearing assistance devices as needed, oversee proper care for all sound equipment. Time commitment: duration of service. Training is provided. Sign up online or contact: Soundboard Director, Austin Thomas.

• Video operators- set up video equipment to record services, operate equipment during services, oversee proper care for video equipment. Training available for beginners. Time commitment: duration of service. Sign up online or contact: Video Operations Volunteer Coordinator, Tom Duft.

• Video Processors – render captured video of services to post on web within 2-3 days . Training available. Time commitment: 1-2 hours per week. Contact: Video Operations Volunteer Coordinator, Tom Duft.

• Projectionists – prepare hymns and prayers in slide form for electronic projection during services. Projectionist receives material from Worship Committee and pastor a week in advance. Load the slide show onto the church laptop and run the show during the service. Time Commitment: 1-2 hours per week, plus worship service time. Sign up online or contact: Saturday Service Director: Carol Thurman or 8 AM Service Director, Aurora Rose.

• Acolytes – assist the pastor during worship services by lighting and extinguishing candles, receiving offering from ushers, assisting with Communion distribution. Time commitment: duration of service. Sign up online or contact Pastor John.

• Lay Assistants – read or sing liturgy with pastor, read prayers printed in bulletin, assist with Communion distribution, announce close of service. Ability to sing is a plus, but not required. Time commitment: duration of service. Sign up online or contact: Music Director, Laura Stransky or Pastor John.

• Greeters – greet attendees before the service, direct members to their name tags, and be available after the service for any visitors’ questions, . This is a GREAT FAMILY ACTIVITY to do together. All ages welcome! Time commitment: 15 minutes before and after services. Sign up online or contact: Magnification Team leader, Ann Duft or Laura Stransky.

• Nursery Assistants – help our nursery worker care for our youngest church attendees (six weeks to five years old) during worship services, usher children to the worship area for Children’s Time. Sign up online or contact: Church Administrator, Pete Olson.

• Worship Bag Wizards – replenish age-appropriate tote bags for children ages 3-12 to use during services. The materials inside keep children busy while enhancing their worship experience. Coordinating and organizing these bags is a great outlet for your creativity. (Don’t you wish you had them when you were little?) Time commitment: 30 minutes each week. Contact: Church Secretary, Linda Moore.

• Altar Flower Contributors – give flowers in honor of a loved one or for any special occasion like a wedding, anniversary, or birthday. Order flowers or arrange your own selection. Time commitment: minimal. Sign up online or contact: Church Secretary, Linda Moore. 970-247-5310.

• Dramatists – work with others called by a similar skill set, to act, direct, write, build sets, make costumes for special performances. Time commitment: heavy, depending on scope of the drama. Contact: Christian Education Director, Mandy Gardner.

• Liturgical Dancers – we would love for someone to take the lead and develop a new Liturgical Dance Team! Contact: Magnification Team leader, Ann Duft or Laura Stransky.

• Special Services Helpers – prayer vigils and special services around Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and Thanksgiving only come together with extra help from the congregation. This is a nice way to be involved without having to make a long-term commitment. Contact: sign up sheet or Worship and Music Committee Chair, Aurora Rose.

• Worship and Music Committee Members - work with the pastor on all aspects of worship services at CtK. Membership is open to anyone who has a desire to further the worship life of the congregation. Please consider serving on this committee to provide a varied, dynamic and meaningful worship experience. The Committee meets at noon on the second Tuesday of every month, in W6 classroom. For more information, contact committee chair, Aurora Rose.

• Altar Guild Members – easy and rewarding way to be a vital part of church life. One or two altar guild members prepare the sacraments for Communion each week. We change the paraments on the altar and the banners as needed for the various seasons of the church calendar. We clean up after the Sunday 10:30 AM service or sometime at the beginning of the next week. Any of these tasks can be shared with other members. We invite all interested men and women to participate. Signing up online makes it easy. The time commitment varies from 1-2 hours a week. No regular meetings. Contact an Altar Guild coordinator, Linda at 970-403-3192, or Carroll Groeger through the church office.

• Musicians – four different choral music groups lead worship songs and participate in the order of service with the pastor. We also have an orchestra and are always looking for people to perform special music during offering time. Substitute organists and pianists are a great help. Contact: Music Director, Laura Stransky.

Membership Team -

Building Relationships

 

 

Fellowship Host -  prepare coffee, juice, and your favorite snack items to be served after a worship service. Gathering after worship is a great way to meet other CtK members and to welcome visitors. Sign up online.

Office Volunteer – Are you creative, organized, a people person, and would enjoy volunteering in the most caring, loving, flexible church office in Durango?  Some tasks include: sorting weekly bulletins, organizing mailings of our monthly Scribe, helping to answer phones while our secretary is out for lunch, filing, copying, and helping to keep our church pews filled with pens, pencils, envelopes, worship books, etc.  For more information, call Linda at 247-5310 or email at admin@ctkdurango.org.

Volunteer Coordinator - make friends and learn about the church while herding cats.

Newsletter Writer/Editor

Graphic Designer - help with drawings and layouts for the BLAST, the Scribe newsletter or our web site.

Plant Care – watering or whatever you’re good at

Tech Team Member - provide computer/audio/ phone system support

Assist with Special Mailings – Although so much of our communication now happens electronically, CtK needs extra help for special mailings to the congregation before annual meetings, during stewardship time, etc.

Provide Meals to Members – really helpful during stressful times like an illness or after a new baby arrives.

Help with Potlucks and Cookouts – Lutherans are famous for potlucks, but they require some organization.

Assist with Funeral Dinners – very important when family and friends attend from out of town.

Participate in a Family Game Night - fun inter-generational events.

Enjoy Dinner Adventures with Fellow CtKers - groups of eight meet at a restaurant or get together for some home cooking.

Assist Fellow Members – help with household chores, paint, do yard work, provide transportation, etc., for ill or elderly members.

Teller – count offering money and record contributions on Sundays after the second service.

Serve on Congregational Council – This is a two-year commitment in which you’ll make friends and learn a lot about how the church works. Any voting member may run – this means that high school students can and do serve. Let the pastor, a council member, or a member of the nominating committee know if you’re interested in running. Elections take place annually during our May congregational meeting.

Serve on Nominating Committee – these members make sure that we have well-qualified candidates for the church council and our two boards (Mission Endowment Fund and Children’s World) at every May congregational meeting.

Attend an Annual Rocky Mountain Synod Assembly – serve as a delegate or guest during one of these uplifting meetings and be inspired.

Establish or Participate in Interest Groups with Fellow Members – Examples are quilting, tent camping, golfing, railroading, making stained glass, cycling, RVing, doing needlework, etc.

New member classes

CtK Outdoors – activities range from picnics to backpacking trips

CtK Piece Makers - quilters enjoy fellowship while doing projects for charity and church members

Book Club

Work on a Members Services Directory

Maturity Team -

Deepening Discipleship

 

 

Children’s World Early Learning Center is always looking for volunteers. If this is a ministry you are interested in, please contact Renee  cwdirector@ctkdurango.org.

Serve on Children’s World Board

Assist with children – read books, hold infants

Assisting teachers prep for art projects

Assist in office

Graduation quilts

Cleaning

Repairs/assembly

Write grant requests

Ministry Team – Serving Others

Social Ministry – Christ the King has made help for the needy a “core conviction” in our church. We reach out to the needy in our congregation, in our community and throughout the world by means of financial aid, service and advocacy.

Our Congregation: A “Love Fund” is used to help members of the congregation in emergency situations where other help is not available. Members requiring financial help can contact the pastor who will provide the funds with the confidential review and approval of the Social Ministry Committee.

Our Community: Social Ministry allocates 5% of the church budget for community needs. This money is distributed by the Social Ministry Committee to local organizations such as Manna Soup Kitchens, The Durango Food Bank, and Habitat for Humanity. Money is also allocated for disaster relief, Bread for the World and mission support. In addition to financial aid, members of our congregation perform services, often in leadership roles, to many charitable organizations. Our church facilities are open to the community for meetings as well.

World Hunger: Social Ministry allocates 3% of the budget for world hunger. This money goes to the ELCA and is then sent to Lutheran World Relief, a highly respected international relief organization, which works directly with needy people in the field. Not included in the budget are contributions by CtK members who give generously to the annual Lenten hunger drive and to disaster relief. Many of our members serve unselfishly in missions in other countries (Mozambique, Kenya, Cambodia, Nicaragua and Mexico).

The Social Ministry Committee feels that advocacy must be viewed in a congregation with the same importance as charitable giving and service. Advocacy means letting our voices be heard regarding legislation in Congress and the Colorado legislature regarding policies affecting needy people. To this end, we work with our partner, Bread for the World, and through our “offering of letters”, we urge members of Congress to support legislation aimed at reducing poverty in our country and throughout the world. This year we conducted our sixth annual offering of letters. Opportunities are provided throughout the year for member participation such as working at he soup kitchen or food bank, ringing the bell for The Salvation Army before Christmas, or writing a letter to our representatives in Congress.

• Serve on Committee
• Soup Kitchen
• Food Bank
• Habitat for Humanity – worker
• Habitat for Humanity – food
• Advocacy
• World Hunger

Nationally and internationally
- Bread for the World
- ELCA World Hunger
- ELCA Disaster Relief
- Lutheran World Relief
- Gardners for God
- Network of International Christian Schools
- Rainbow Trail Lutheran Camp
- Ssejinja Children’s Foundation
- American Cancer Society Relay for Life
- Desa Satu Disaster Relief
- Los Niños de Chapala y Ajijic, A.C.
- Quest for Peace

Stephen Ministry – Our very active Stephens Ministry group  works with the pastor to support those going through difficult times by providing caring one on one relationships with trained Stephen Ministers.for more information, contact the Church office at 247-5310 or E-mail: Stephen Ministy.

Prayer Ministry – The Pastoral Care and Prayer Committee coordinates prayer requests to our prayer chain, which consists of about 30 members. This committee encourages growth in prayer and opportunities such as prayer vigils.

• Serve on Committee
• Prayer chain member
• Develop devotional material
• Coordinate Prayer Vigil
• Participate in Prayer Vigil

Salvation Army

Meals Ministry

Shoebox Project;

Manna Soup Kitchen

Piecemaker Quilters

Scouts

Special World Projects: Clean Out Your Desk, Olive Oil

We have a healing service after all three worship services the second Sunday of each month.

Mission Team – Proclaiming the Gospel

Greeter – welcome guests and members at the church entrance.

Contact Repeat Visitors
Visit Prospective Members
Sponsor New Members
Reach Out to Inactive Members

improve and maintain memorial garden

Lawn care
Snow removal
General maintenance
Plumbing
Electrical
Carpentry
Painting
Clean windows

Help with Christmas Open House

Habitat for Humanity

Mission Trips

GOBOGs

Missionaries

Coalition of Caring Communities

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