God has given many blessings to His believers; blessings which they use as His managers for the furtherance of His Kingdom.  Among these are the blessings of time, talents, and treasures.  Not all receive them to the same degree, but God expects good stewardship of each gift as it is given. The congregation can help its members plan and carry out their stewardship.

The stewardship of a Christian's time and talents is reflected in the individual's support of the Lord's work in the home congregation and beyond. This is evident from participation in worship, in prayer, in confession of faith, and in witnessing that faith to family, relatives, neighbors, friends and fellow workers.  It is also shown in the Christian's willingness to serve in the congregation where membership is held.

As you read the following ways to serve, please contact the pastor to express your willingness to serve. He will direct you to proper church board members who can give you more information.

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What a privilege it is for our women to serve by setting up and removing the communion ware used at the Lord's Supper, filling the candles with liquid wax, changing the paraments for the seasons of the church year, and making sure flowers are placed on the altar.  We are always looking for more women to help with this work.

We have had a chime choir in the past.  Right now we are not meeting because we have no director. Members from fifth grade age and up are welcome to join.  No previous experience is necessary.  We will update this when we can begin practices once again.

We invite communicant members of the congegation to sing in our choir, lending their hearts and voices in praise to our Savior with special songs. No choir experience is necessary.  Rehearsals are held when needed to prepare for special services and to help introduce new hymns and Psalms to the congregation. Our church calendar and bulletin will list what days we will practice since we sing mostly for festival services. Since Covid we have met to practice usually after the late service.

Our congregation likes to afford all members, for whom it isn't a hardship, the opportunity to volunteer to clean our church each week.  Supplies and guidelines for cleaning are found in the upper narthex closet (between the 2 bulletin boards). We need more willing families to sign up so that the schedule is such that a family would only have to clean once a year. 

Periodic work days are scheduled in the spring, summer and fall as needed, to trim branches and bushes, clean the exterior of our buildings, and do a more thorough cleaning of the inside of church.  Please watch for announcements for these special work days.

We have a number of very dedicated individuals who meet each Monday morning to count the offerings which God's people have brought to support our Savior's work.  We could use several additional volunteers.

Williamston has two parades (the first Saturday evening in December and the fourth Saturday afternoon in June). Our congregation would like to have a float entry in both of them each year.  In the days, or weeks, before each parade we need volunteers to help assemble our float.  We also need a vehicle to tow the float and members to walk along the float during the parade to hand out any information we have for that day.

Each of our buildings, and the property which surrounds them, needs regular attention. To hire commercial businesses to take care of all the maintenance and repair would be an overwhelming burden on our budget.  God has given many of our members the ability to do electrical work, general carpentry, plumbing, heating/cooling, painting, etc.  We look forward to using more of our members to do this work.

We ask individuals and husband/wife teams to volunteer to greet worshipers as they enter church, and to give a special warm greeting to visitors. A strong greeter program makes sure that visitors know they are welcomed here, and helps us to plan visits to their homes if they wish or to contact them with more information about our church. We ask visitors to sign our guest book. More detailed guidelines for our greeters are available from the pastor.

We extend a warm invitation to all women of our congregation to attend our monthly meetings and fellowship activities.  Our desire is to encourage and support one another in Christian love and fellowship while promoting the growth and spread of God's Word and blessings.  Each monthly meeting is an opportunity to enjoy each other's company, discuss Bible topics, and work on church-related projects.

The ladies faithfully serve our church by assisting with the support and organization of church activities such as making banners, cleaning the kitchen, making cards to send to our members, taking care of the church library, handling funeral dinners, and much more. Each year we support our home and world missions as we send out our mission offerings.  We also have a Prayer Partner program where we draw names and extend special prayers for that person for the next month.  Then we send a special card to them at the end of the month.

Please join us the first Monday each month (September through May) at 10:00 AM in the church fellowship hall.

The lawns at our church and school property take many hours each week to cut during the growing season.  The congregation provides the equipment for our volunteers to use. We look for many volunteers so that no one needs to do mowing too often.

Choir direction, solo singing, organ playing, piano playing, instrument playing: these are all areas where it is good to know who has the ability and interest in doing them. Please speak to the pastor about your willingness to serve in any of these areas. We would love to add more musical instruments to our services.

For many years we have been able to rely on faithful members to take care of timely removal of snow from our church and school parking lots. We rely on volunteers to use shovels and/or snow blowers to clear the sidewalks at both the church and school. We would also appreciate knowing if there are members who have the means to plow our parking lots in case of emergency.

Because involvement of the men of the congregation is so important, we use our usher program to teach male leadership, responsibility, and service.  Teams of ushers assist in various ways at each of our worship services.  The Board of Elders invites communicant male members of the congregation to serve on usher teams of 3 or 4 men.

The role of the usher in the service is to provide direction to our members and to visitors throughout the service, to collect and take the offering to the altar on behalf of those assembled, and to support the pastor in ensuring the service is conducted in a God-pleasing manner.

Each December a schedule is drawn up for the following year of worship services.  Please speak with Pastor to let him know of your willingness to serve as an usher.  Each month there will appear a reminder of who serves for our services in our church newsletter.

Sessions for Vacation Bible School are held for five days or evenings in the summer, during which children from our congregation and community study God's Word and work on craft projects.  Helpers are needed each year for the craft projects, helping during the Bible lessons, recess and snack time, and more.

We invite interested members to serve our young people by helping with group meetings, travel, activities and more.

There are a few programs in which our church and school are involved. These programs help us get supplies needed for our church and school.

We ask that you consider using the Boxtops for Education app and and scan your receipts from stores for credit for our school. Information can be found at BTFE.com. We also ask that you turn in empty ink/printer cartridges. We use the credit from these to purchase office supplies for our school and church. These items may be placed in the box on the shelf in the entryway at church.

We thank you for your continued support of these programs that greatly help our church and school.