The Glen Waverley Uniting Church PSALTERLink to RosterDoor
Tasks for Door Stewards
- Most days there are 2 stewards rostered for 9.30am and 11.00am services.
- PLEASE Wear your name tag. Steward's badges are on Foyer table
- Arrive 20 minutes before start of service.
- Clean and refill the minister's drinking glasses. They are located in the pulpit and lectern
- Open windows to suit weather conditions and COVID ventilation requirements. The key is located in the sound room.
- Switch on FANS in hot weather position 1 or 2 initially.
Check with ministers for ORDER OF SERVICE & NUMBERS FOR HYMN BOARD.
- (Hymn numbers are kept in the 'sound system' room)
- Check that lights are as required - please note: main lights in the church ARE NOT USUALLY REQUIRED IN DAYLIGHT HOURS
- Check hymn books and Bibles in pews
- Check placement of Offering Bowls. Two large offering bowls to be placed at the rear of the church for people to use on their way in. One on the communion table at the front.
- Distribute church bulletins and any other literature
- Show people to their seats - especially late and newcomers
- Count and record attendance numbers within the folder provided.
Receive the offering - plates to stay in the church until after the service. Two large offering bowls to be placed at the base of the communion table, two on the foyer table, and one for the choir Remove relevant sheet from the Prayer Book to be taken forward with the offering. PLEASE DO NOT take the offering forward until the organist has finished his/her voluntary or indicates to you for you to move forward. Stewards to return the offering and place on the communion table. Money will be counted by others. After the first service collect any surplus literature from pews and generally tidy up. If the windows have been opened close and lock them.
11.00am STEWARDS: ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO SIT TOWARDS THE FRONT OF THE CHURCH Please record attendances in folder on foyer table After service, collect any surplus literature from pews, ensure that all lights, PA power switch (switch outside sound room door), ceiling fans etc, are turned off, and that all doors and windows are locked . Remove DISABLED PARKING signs and store in switchboard cupboard PLEASE MAKE SURE THE POWER IS SWITCHED OFF (OUTSIDE SWITCH TO SOUND ROOM) FOLLOWING THE 11.00am SERVICE. DO NOT SWITCH OFF THE POWER POINTS IN THE SOUND ROOM Please NOTE: that on days when a larger than usual congregation is in attendance e.g., baptism, stewards are to ask a duty elder to assist in collecting the offering. JOHN MUIR Ph 9560 1518 IN CASE OF EMERGENCY COLLAPSE Delegate steward on duty to ring Ambulance (000) Church address: Glen Waverley Uniting Church Cr Bogong Avenue and Kingsway GLEN WAVERELY (Melway 71 C2.5) DO NOT ADMINISTER FOOD OR DRINK Transport person, if possible, by wheelchair to Vestry (Wheelchair available in switchboard cupboard) 5 Lay the person down, head on low pillow, and legs raised on pillows Blanket and pillows in bag at end of bed in Vestry. PLEASE RETURN AFTER USE.