Sixth graders and up may apply to be acolytes. They read at each service the Old and New Testament lessons. A clear voice, good enunciation, and some experience reading before a group is required. After training, readers may be assigned one to three times in a three-month period. Readers are expected to meet their assignments.
Young people are welcome and encouraged to participate after training.
Responsibilities include greeting worshipers, distributing bulletins, collecting the offering, and pacing Communion lines. Young people are encouraged to greet. The Altar Guild and its members serve God and God's people as ministers of worship, preparing and caring for the sacred space of the Lord's table, or altar, along with the furnishings that surround it. Members of the altar guild represent Christ's gathered people in preparing for God offerings of beauty and worshipful delight as places where our common praise and joy in His living and redeeming body may be present among us. Responsibilities include caring for vestments, altar linen and fittings.