Volunteer Needs:

Prayer Partner Ministry Coordinator

Qualifications:
Encouragement and Faith

Duties:
Vision: Prayer changes lives. Each year we try to provide each youth of Braddock Street United Methodist Church an adult who will lift them up in regular prayer. This is an anonymous ministry. The youth will know someone is praying for them, just not who specifically. You will receive a letter telling the youth’s name, grade, school, address and birthday.

You are encouraged to send regular ANONYMOUS notes to your youth (suggested monthly) reminding them you are praying for them. No gifts please, just cards and letters. This is the gift of prayer. In May we will have a Sunday evening Prayer Partner Service where you will meet your youth and worship together.

Transportation Coordinator

Qualifications:
Serving/Helps; Knowledge

Duties:
Help keep list of sponsor/driver and call to remind/count belts.

• Driver helpers also really needed!

Snack Suppers Cook/Helper

Qualifications:
Hospitality; Serving/Helps

Duties:
Cook: Buys and executes meal bringing up to church (upper rec room) to be served at 6:00pm. Can either donate a meal or turn in receipts to Kristin for reimbursement. (You can also mark the receipt donation and turn into Kristin for tax purposes.)

Helper: Helps cook, lay out, serve and clean up meal.

Both Cook and Helper sets up four-six eating tables with chairs and a serving table. (one is left up all the time)

*Supplies on hand: Plates, cups, napkins, silverware, and lemonade.

Small Group Leader

Qualifications:
Sheparding; Apostle; Mercy/Compassion

Duties:
Small Group Leader is one of the biggest hands on supporters of youth with one of the deepest spiritual impacts. You will need to be available as consistantly on Sunday Blast evening as possible and any extra times you can be with the youth the more effective your impact will be. Groups should consist of 5-12 youth each Sunday. You can either follow suggestion/resources through the youth ministry OR you can plan your own youth program to meet where your group is at. This is when your gifting can shine.

The key is to minister to your group members and include everyone as Jesus would. You are responsible for making sure you have what you need to lead and reporting in to Kristin regularly (monthly) on what is going on with your group. Support meetings will happen as often as possible and access to outside training opportunities as well.

Sunday School Leader/Substitute

Qualifications:
Teaching; Sheparding; Apostle

Duties:
Leading Sunday School is a really awesome time with the youth. Senior Highs use FUEL, a DVD bible curriculum that takes them through the Bible in 4 years going into hundreds of the stories and applying the principles to their lives. It is very easy to follow and has many options for discussion or worksheets as you’d like to use. Middle School alternates a year in Old Testament and a year in New Testament. Different games, DVDs and worksheets are used to give overviews of the Word and get the power of connecting with God into their daily lives. Some preparation is expected to study and know your lessons but freedom on how this is executed is very broad.

Mission Team Member

Qualifications:
Sheparding; Evangelism; Mercy/Compassion

Duties:
Accompany youth and mission team to mission location serving as your gifts allow to not only accomplish the goal of the trip but lead youth in serving. Will attend meetings and participate in fund raisers leading up to trip.

Contact Kristin for more specific details on any volunteer position, 667-3366 or by e-mail.

Item Needs:

You may order/obtain these items from your own sources or donate money for them. Either way, they would be greatly appreciated!

Priority Items:
• FUEL - Sr High Sunday School youth curriculum
$149 + shipping -- more info on this item

Why?
Complete ALL weeks of Sr. High with well received lessons that are truly helping the Biblical stories come to life for our teens. Each one covers 12 weeks. The link provided above is the one we would love to have for late fall. Good Bible curriculum is hard to find, and this is the best out there!

• Experiencing Jesus Passion - Interactive worship resource
$19.99 + shipping -- more info on this item

and/or

• Giving my time to God - Interactive worship resource
$19.99 + shipping -- more info on this item

Why?
Youth connect with God in special and new ways with contemporary aids, and these help with creativity and theme. We want to use these to start new year Oct 2006 and during Lent 2007.

• Greater Than - Meditations to be used in small groups and retreats
$9.99 + shipping -- more info on this item

Why?
Story driven meditations help students make connections in their own lives; great to transition or close a day.

• Visual Reality Resources
Prices vary from $35-140

Countdowns - more info on this item

Illustrations - more info on this item

Subscriptions - more info on this item

Why?
Used in rallies and BLAST; countdowns and illustrations WORK and keep the ministry appearing up to date and fresh!

Contact Kristin with any questions regarding anything listed above, 667-3366 or by e-mail.