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OPPORTUNITIES FOR MINISTRY AT CALVARY COB

Ministry Through Outreach Opportunities

Are you interested in an opportunity to reach out to others in God’s love?
Try one or more of these ministries and see what’s right for you!

Elder Transport & Care
Interest: Care Giving, Service to Others, Helping
Spiritual Gifts:Encouragement, Generosity

Volunteers are needed to drive elders to church, doctors appointments, etc. This is an opportunity to put God's commandments in action.

Disaster Coordinator
Interest: Service, Helping, Missions, Organizmg
Spiritual Gifts:Service, Fellowship

You can show God’s love to those in need by planning, organizing, and promoting our church’s involvement in the Disaster Response Auction, as well as, enhstmg volunteers to go with teams from the district to areas needmg services.

Meals After Funerals
Interest: Service, Cooking, Comfort to Grieving
Spiritual Gifts:Encouragement, Generosity, Mercy

Volunteers are needed to bring food or donate money to buy food for meals after a funeral. This is a practical way to support and show our concern for those who are mourning.

CCAP
Interest: Service to Others
Spiritual Gifts:Hospitality, Generosity

You can serve as a liaison between CCAP (Congregational Community Action Project) and the congregation by attending monthly board meetings and communicating special needs to the church.

Angel Tree
Interest: Missions, Fellowship, Helping, Service
Spiritual Gifts:Faith, Service, Encouragement,Evangelism

During Christmas, volunteers are needed to purchase and deliver gifts to the children of inmates in their parent’s name. Each gift delivered also presents an opportunity to share the love and hope of Christ with that family. That first Christmas connection can be the beginning of a rewarding and ongomg relationsip with these children and their families.

Brethren Woods Camp Representative
Interest: Event Plannmg, Fellowship, Organizing
Spiritual Gifts:Administration, Leadership, Hospitality

You can get involved by planning, organizing, and promoting the programs and usage ofthe facilities at Brethren Woods The representative communicates with the congregation regardmg programs at Brethren Woods.

Special Needs Ministry
Interest: Helping and Caring for Others, Fellowship, Service
Spiritual Gifts:Hospitality, Generosity

Working with the pastor, this ministry helps, encourages, and counsels those individuals. or families, in or out ofthe church, with special needs.

Peace Advocate
Interest: Current Events, Politics, Helping Others
Spiritual Gifts:Encouragement, Hospitality

Would you like to keep the congregation informed on actions available to our congregation to further peace? This person will also encourage and counsel young people faced with the military draft, if necessary.

Foreign Mission Communicator
Interest: World Events
Spiritual Gifts:Missions, Evangelism, Service to Others

This person or persons encourages and coordinates the activities of our congregation with respect to world wide missionary work. This involves communicating mission needs, encouraging members to participate in mission assignments, and directing the congregation towards greater support of missionaries. This is a great opportunity to apply the Great Commission.

Visitation Team
Interest: Meeting New People, Socializing
Spiritual Gifts:Fellowship, Evangelism, Hospitality

This team visits people who are new to the congregation and others who may have not attended recently.

Prayer Chain
Interest: Prayer, Concern for Others
Spiritual Gifts:Compassion, Faith

Join with others to pray for the expressed needs of our congregation and beyond. Anyone with a concern may call the contact person. That concern is then passed along the "chain" so many people can be in prayer for each situation. All concerns are confidential.


Calvary Church of the Brethren
578 Front Royal Pike
Winchester, VA 22602
540-662-2350