Please Note: Items highlighted in red require clearances, training, or an audition to serve.
Worship and Creative Support for Weekend and New Life Students Worship
- Instrumentalist (audition): After a passed audition on one or more of the following musical instruments – Keyboard/Piano, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums/Percussion – willing to lead or accompany worship songs.
- Vocalists (audition): After a passed audition, willing to lead or offer supporting vocals and harmonies for worship songs.
- Audio Tech: Learning and running the soundboard at practices and services to provide audio support.
- Video: Assisting with a camera for worship services.
- Video Director: Provide guidance for video and ProPresenter operator during the worship service, along with operating the board that changes camera angles.
- ProPresenter: Queues up the slides that are shown on screen during the worship service.
- Lighting: Providing lighting support for worship services.
New Life Kids
- Greeter/Check-In: Welcome families and get children checked in when they arrive.
- Infants Leader (clearances): Assists the Nursery Leaders in caring for children ages 0-1.
- Toddlers Leader (clearances): Assists the Nursery Leaders in caring for children ages 2-2.
- Preschool Leader (clearances): Implements lessons for children ages 3-5.
- Preschool Assistant (clearances): Assists the Preschool Leader with care of children and activities.
- Small Group Leader (K-2) (clearances): Leads a small group during service of K-2nd
- Small Group Leader (3-5) (clearances): Leads a small group during service of 3rd-5th
- Small Group Assistant (clearances): Assists the Small Group Leader with care of children and activities during service.
- Host (clearances): Leads elementary large group time in an activity or game.
- Worship Leader: Leads motions and songs during large group time.
- Tech: Runs ProPresenter and/or sound during large group time.
New Life Special Needs Ministry
- Greeter/Check-In(clearances): Welcome families, check in children, introduce children to their buddy and possibly transition children to Horizon/ Elevate room.
- 1:1 Buddy (clearances): Assists children on 1:1 assistance in Elevate/Horizon Program based on children’s level of need.
- Small Group Leader (clearances): Leads a small group during service of Pre-K to 5th in Horizon Room.
- Small Group Assistant (clearances): Assists the Small Group Leader with care of children and activities during service.
- Worship Leader(clearances): Leads motions and songs during large group time.
- Tech: Assists with technology support such as Ipads, communication devices, and ProPresenter.
- Curriculum Creator: Assists in creating adapted curriculum to meets needs of children in Horizon/Elevate Program.
New Life Students
- Core Team (clearances): Is trained to serve weekly as a Small Group Leader to a specific age group. Attends all services, events, and retreats.
- Support Team: Greets and welcomes students, introduces new students to their small group, helps with set-up, tear-down, Snack Shack. Serves monthly.
- Prayer Team (clearances): Does not attend youth group but prays for NLS leaders and a specifically assigned small group weekly.
- Crisis Team (clearances): Attends training provided by New Life to become certified. Handles in-house emotional crisis situations, is open to visiting students in the hospital, offers counsel with students during NLS. Serves weekly, as needed.
- NLS Hospitality: Provides homemade baked goods for special events and theme nights. Helps cook meals for in-house mission trips and small group events.
Admin Helpers
- Office Helpers: Assists office staff on a weekly or as-needed basis with answering the church phone, making copies, assisting with mailings, and computer data entry.
Serve Team
- Painters: Painting throughout the buildings and property at New Life.
- Cleaners: Helps deep-clean throughout the building by vacuuming, dusting, washing windows and doors, etc.
- Organizers: Organizes areas and items throughout the building depending on needs.
- Landscapers and Gardeners: Uses skills to landscape the grounds at New Life and make an appealing first impression for guests!
- Set-up/Tear-down: Helps set up and/or tear down tables, chairs, etc. for services, events, programs, and other ministries held at New Life.
Assimilation
- Ushers: Assists in sitting guests at worship services or events at New Life.
- Greeters: Greets and welcomes guests at the door for worship services.
- Hospitality: Helps prepare snacks, beverages, and details that go into making New Life the most welcoming place it can be!
- Welcome Center/Next Steps: Meets First Time Guests, introduces them to New Life and the ministries available, and distributes New Life gifts.
- Lord’s Supper Setup: Helps prepare trays and front table for the Lord’s Supper once a month.
- Parking Lot Team: Greets people in the parking lot before they come into worship!
- Online Worship Service Host: Attends the 8:30am and 10:30am online services and greets people as they join the chat. In addition to greeting and chatting, is tasked with copying and pasting sermon notes into the chat and praying with people, when requested.
Discipleship and Care
- Small Group Leader (training): Is trained to lead a weekly small group for anyone (mature Christians, new Christians, and non-Christians).
- Weekend Prayer Partners (confidentiality agreement): Prays after worship services with those seeking God’s guidance, healing, and aid.
- Stephen Ministers (training, confidentiality agreement): Is trained to counsel and support a person going through trying times.
- Prayer Team (confidentiality agreement): Prays for prayer requests.
Outreach
- Blessing Bags: Prepare and pack bags of non-perishable food items and supplies to be given to families referred for blessing.
- Special Events Team: Assists in a variety of ways to prepare for New Life-wide and community events such as our yearly Fireworks display, the Saxonburg Arts Fest, Mingle on Main, New Life Trunk or Treat, etc.
- Backpack Ministry: Prepare and pack backpacks and school supplies for students referred for blessing.
- Fishbone Ministries (clearances): Helps prepare and serve a warm meal to underprivileged kids in Butler on the 4th Thursday of every month.
Photography
- Weekend Worship Services: Discreetly photographs before and during the weekend worship services. Takes professional quality photos of guests during fellowship, the speaking pastor during the message, and the worship band. Photos to be used for promotional resources and on New Life social media.
- New Life Students (clearances): Discreetly photographs this ministry during hang out time, activities, and during worship. Takes quality photos to be used for promotional resources and on New Life Students social media.
- New Life Kids (clearances): Discreetly photographs this ministry during worship and game times, and other appropriate moments. Takes quality photos to be used for promotional resources and on New Life Kids social media.
- Special Events (clearances): Available to photograph on-site events (Summer Explosion, Trunk-or-Treat, Acoustic Christmas, Family Night, etc.), as well as events New Life participates in such as the Saxonburg Arts Festival, Mingle on Main, Sportsman’s Fest, etc. Takes quality photos of those participating to be used for promotional resources and on New Life social media.
Please Note: Items highlighted in red require clearances, training, or an audition to serve.