Baptism Team Staff
liaison: Marlon Furtado, 503.667.1515
Volunteers needed to prepare and store baptistry, edit videos, and prepare certificates. Team members also assist men, women, and children at time of their baptism.
Hospitality Center Team
Contact: Bobby Rutledge, Bob.Rutledge@comcast.net
Staff liaison: Marlon Furtado, 503.667.1515
Hosts and hostesses answer questions about the church and assist people with their spiritual decisions. Team members must be grounded in their faith with the ability to personally lead others to faith in Christ. Training is provided.
Membership Class 101 Team
Staff liaison: Marlon Furtado, 503.667.1515
Volunteers are needed to mail information to people interested in Class 101, prepare materials, arrange childcare, and data entry after the class.
New Believer Follow-up Team
Staff liaison: Marlon Furtado, 503.667.1515
Spiritual Coaches are available to meet one-on-one with new believers for three months. Coaches must be active members of the church and actively growing in their relationship with Christ. Resources and training are provided.
New Guests Follow-up Team
Staff liaison: Marlon Furtado, 503.667.1515
Volunteers are needed for data entry of new guests. Team members are needed for phoning new guests after they have been here one month, and again after two months. These calls are to help guests effectively become assimilated into the church and Adult Bible Fellowships. Volunteers must be active members of the church and of an ABF.
Greater Gresham Resources
Contact: Larry Bentley, vidologist@aol.com
Staff liaison: Gary Mink, 503.667.1515
Volunteers are needed to record and duplicate weekend sermons, series, and other special events here at Greater Gresham onto CD’s and DVD’s. This ministry helps us reach others for Christ beyond our campus.
Prayer Team
Staff liaison: Gary Mink, 503.667.1515
This team prays during the first 20 minutes of the service in the “Worship Ministries Room”. Whichever service you normally attend can be the service you pray, and the commitment is at least once a month. This ministry is a huge support to our Pastors and the weekend services.
Lord’s Supper Team
Staff liaison: Gary Mink, 503.667.1515
Volunteers prepare and distribute the elements of the Lord’s Supper and clean trays after the communion service.
Library Team
Contact: Rachel Johnson, cheljohnson01@yahoo.com
Staff liaison: Jo-Anne Mackey, joanne@greatergresham.org
Team members needed to help individuals check out resources and to help organize, catalogue, and display items. Schedule is flexible.
Prep Team
Contact: Karen Furtado, karenf0219@yahoo.com
Staff liaison: Jo-Anne Mackey, joanne@greatergresham.org
Volunteers needed to help once a month on Saturday morning for 1-2 hours in preparing facilities for services. This might involve vacuuming, straightening chairs, washing windows, etc.
Welcome Team
Contact: Lisa Snider, silverspurranch2@verizon.net
Staff liaison: Lance Logue, lance@greatergresham.org
Our goal is to help each person attending a worship service feel welcome and well informed. Greeters needed to greet people at the doors, distribute worship folders, find a seat in the service, or answer questions at the information booth.
Facilities Team
Staff liaison: Jim Benson, jkbenson@msn.com
Help with minor repairs and maintenance on facilities. This could include changing light bulbs, carpet cleaning, painting, changing a/c filters, cleaning gutters, power washing sidewalks, etc. Schedule is flexible.
Landscaping Team
Staff liaison: Jim Benson, jkbenson@msn.com
Help with landscaping projects such as trimming, pruning, weeding, planting, and spreading bark dust. Schedule is flexible.
Four-Wheel Fellowship
Contact: Arne Wayrynen, 4wf@yahoogroups.com
Staff liaison: Marlon Furtado, 503.667.1515
These car enthusiasts meet the second Thursday of each month. In addition to enjoying cars, trucks, hot rods, and motorcycles, they help those in the church who need assistance with car-related problems.
Office Projects Team
Staff liaison: Jo-Anne Mackey, 503.667.1515
Volunteers assist the office staff with a variety of projects, including mass mailings, compiling notebooks, and other miscellaneous jobs as needed.
Administrative Assistant Support Team
Staff liaison: Jo-Anne Mackey, 503.667.1515
Members are needed at various times during the week to directly assist support staff on various projects including answering the phone, reception and computer work. Team members arrange a time to assist in the office with either a specific ministry or for general use.