Deacon’s Report 2006
10/24/06
The deacon body’s central interest is the spiritual and physical well-being of the church family. The deacon body is broken down into the following Caregiving functions:
Hospitality Ministries:
Greeters, Users, Visitor Welcome
Assistance Ministries:
Transportation, Benevolence; providing groceries, or $ to needy for food, shelter
Delivering food, checks or other assistance to needy
Shepherding/Caregiving Ministries:
Deliver worship tapes to the homebound
Deliver meals to the convalescing
Send cards, notes, calls
Routine homebound visitation rotation
A new Shepherding Program was initiated in September. Shepherds have been
identified and have families and/or individuals assigned to them.
Ordinance Ministries:
Communion-Love Feast/Feet Washing twice a year- Bread & Cup twice a year
Baptism assistance
Anointing-assist or conduct
Prayer:
Coordinate the prayer chain and pray regularly for the church body
New Members:
Provide gifts when joining
Arrange for a sponsor
Reconciliation Ministries:
Provide when needed as per guidelines in the Deacon Manual
Currently, there are 23 members of the deacon body with 21 of those being active members. The deacons meet approximately six times throughout the year. All of the above functions have been provided throughout the 2006 calendar year.
Submitted by:
Greg & Renee Cunningham, Deacon Chairman and Deacon Secretary Respectively