How can you get involved and serve?

As Christians, we are called to serve. There are many ways to get involved and support God’s work in Egham. We list of some of the opportunities to serve below.

If you would like more information about any of these volunteering activities, please get in touch with the Church Office and they can connect you to the right person. Or speak to anyone doing the role now – e.g. speak to the person running the sound desk or serving coffee. We welcome new volunteers.

Children’s Work

• Creche: support our creche as they look after babies and toddlers during Sunday services.
• Footprints: support our children’s work as they look after children during Sunday services
• Playtime: join our volunteer-run playgroup on a Friday
• Praise Tots: volunteer at our worship service for toddlers
• Children’s events: help us to run children’s events, such as our holiday club and Light Party
• Charged: support our team serving young people (11-18) during our Sunday services. At present three specific areas need help: regular weekly volunteers with groups, project volunteers (one-off for a specific thing), and administrative help.
• Note that to be a children’s volunteer, you need to agree to a DBS check, which we hope you understand and support.

Creative Work

• Flower arranging: help to arrange flowers to brighten up our buildings and gardens
• Art Team: if you have artistic talent do get in touch.
• Music Group: get stuck in to our worship group. We have 4 or 5 different combinations of groups.  Someone or some group is leading worship every Sunday at 10:30am and 6:00pm.
• Choir: use your gift for singing in the St John’s choir. The choir sings every Sunday at 9:ooam.

Technical Work

• Sound Desk: ensure that everyone can be heard when they need to be, and to balance the music from the band. It’s actually not too difficult to learn how to do this … we will train you!
• Projection Team: make the right thing appear on the screen at the right time. You need to be reasonably confident with a PC, familiar with the worship at St John’s and prepared to operate the projector once every few weeks.
• YouTube: We need a third person on the desk to help broadcast our services live.
• Web Team: Help keep this website up to date.

Serving others

• Coffee after services: serve the St John’s congregation after our services.
• Christmas Meal: support our annual Christmas meal on Christmas Day for those who would otherwise be on their own.
• Hope Café: Volunteer at our Wednesday lunchtime community cafe.

Supporting the church services

• Setting up the church: help us prepare the church building for services.
• Intercessions: offer your powers of prayer during our Sunday services.
• Sides-person Team: be on the door and help with other things that need doing during services.
• Prayer Ministry Team: pray for those that need prayer after our services.

So much more!

• Open Church: enable the church to be open during lunchtimes in the week.  Currently Wednesdays 12:30 until 2:30.
• CAP volunteer: volunteer on our debt support programmes.
• Mission Partnership Team: join the team that leads the mission work of the church.
• Social Media Team: use your digital skills to support the church social media channels.
• Church Working Party: join one of our gardening or cleaning working parties as we work together to make our church space beautiful.
• Eco-Church: play your part in the team that is helping St John’s become more eco-friendly.
• Fundraising: help us to fund our important mission work and pay off the costs of building the Easter Centre by running fundraisers.