We'll have tables set up around the worship center. You will have half a table or an area for you to setup a display to answer questions and give people a picture of your ministry.  You can set up your display before the service, and then go to your seat for the service.

We'll have an abbreviated worship service, a message encouraging people to serve and find a place to start that morning, then we will dismiss the service to the displays for people to find a place to serve.

- Plan what you want on your display.  If you are a greeter, have something about greeting.  If you are a worship team, have an instrument.  If you are security, have a gu...NAAAAH, just kidding.  But you get it.  It doesn't have to be elaborate, but make it something, even if it's small.
- Be creative.  If you need help, find someone you know that is creative.
If you can't find anyone creative, email jimc@baywestchurch.com

- Arrive at 10:45 sharp to help set up.  The other church gets out late sometimes, so it can be a little chaotic.  Don't worry or stress, we'll get it done to be ready to go as close to 11:15am as possible.
- We will provide cards to sign up people for your ministry to fill out to sign up and we'll get them coordinated and provide you a list of people that sign up.
- We will have a space with a label where you are supposed to be.
- You or someone will need to be there to represent your ministry, talk about what they do in the ministry, set up and take down your display.  That can be you or someone you enlist.  Do not have the same person doing multiple displays.

If you have questions, email Pastor Jim at  jimc@baywestchurch.com

- Contact everyone who signed up for your ministry personally and thank them for signing up.
- It's IMPORTANT to get them involved quickly.  Have them shadow you the next Sunday or the next time you do it.  If you have a training or a fellowship with your team, invite them to it.
- You will need to have a "next step" for them.
- Be prepared to train them.  A trained volunteer is a more confident volunteer.

If you have questions, email Pastor Jim at  jimc@baywestchurch.com

We want to emphasize "try out".  The important thing is to start serving, but understanding that if it is not for you, you can exit it, but the point is to try something else, not just exit service completely. 

We want to get people plugged into the place that God created them to serve.  When someone's God given passion meets their talents and experience, that is one of the most powerful places for someone to serve God.

If they want to exit your ministry, don't be offended, be prepared to help them find that new place. 
Ask them why
Feel free to help them discuss what they like to do, who they are
Help them get to a new place of service.

Thanks for all you do.  You might be tempted at some point to say "How does pushing a button or smiling or filling up a baptism pool or providing security really make disciples?"  That's a fair question.

We are all working together to make disciples.   It's not any one area. 
If you don't push that button, the mics don't come on and no one hears.
If you don't smile when you greet someone, someone doesn't feel at home, and the distraction of feeling out of place gets in the way of them hearing and experiencing God's message.
If you don't fill the baptismal pool, we can't baptize people.
If you don't provide security, someone can get hurt.

We are all working in every area to do our part to make disciples here and everywhere for the glory of God, bringing each person one step closer to Jesus.  I think the Apostle Paul put it best when he wrote this to the church at Corinth...

¹² Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 
¹³ For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 
¹⁴ Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
¹⁵ Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 
¹⁶ And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 
¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 
¹⁸ But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 
¹⁹ If they were all one part, where would the body be? 
²⁰ As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
²¹ The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 
²² On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 
²³ and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 
²⁴ while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 
²⁵ so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 
²⁶ If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
1 Corinthians 12:12-17 (NIV)