Keeping up the (church) House

[primsong]

I find a vast amount of the things I am involved in have my faith and/or my church and its various activities, needs and ongoing whatnot as a part of them - goodness knows there's always something to do, especially in a smaller one where everyone has to wear more than one hat.  Since my earliest "church days" as a teen, I've been drawn to take care of the building, furnishings and bulletin boards, etc. - i.e. one of my first actions as a new Christian was to take the welcome mats home and scrub them, hee hee....  I still update bulletin boards, polish the wood in the sanctuary, make sure the kids have scribbling paper so they don't scribble in the hymnals, pressure-wash the moss off the sidewalk and paint the lines on the parking lot, for instance.  And I love it.

Out of curiosity, for those of you who have a church or other group that meets on a regular basis, what 'slot' of duties do you find yourself falling into the most naturally?  What jazzes you that you get to be a part of it?

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[travels_in_time]

I taught Sunday School for several years, although I don't now. I also enjoyed working in the nursery, running the overhead screen (song lyrics, scriptures, sermon points), preparing the bulletins--background stuff, where you don't get noticed.

I don't much enjoy cleaning the church, although I'm in a group that does it in a rotation; and somehow right now I'm a greeter, and that is SO WRONG for me, I can't even begin to comprehend how that happened.

[primsong]

Haha! I know, right? I've ended up at the door a couple times to greet people and it's not where I belong either. :-D Thankfully, the 'usher teams' also include being the person standing behind a counter that has all the information stuff and I do like answering questions so that works out. Bless you for doing Sunday School, teachers of all stripes are fabulous people - and for having the courage to do nursery!

It's a fine skill to keep the lyrics going at the right pace so you dont' get that earnestly muddled sound of people trying to sing but they can't quite remember what the next words were. X-D You remind me I'd like to learn how to do the lyrics and such on the overhead, seems it would be a useful thing to know in the event of no-one else being there who could keep it going. Sometimes you get events that only have a handful of people, after all.