“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied Grace.” 1 Peter 4:10

SERVING AT EBENEZER:
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“Saved to Serve” Class
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SERVING OPPORTUNITIES

Willing volunteers serving in areas of their giftedness brings fullness and joy, and it’s what being part of a church family is all about. Opportunities at Ebenezer include joining ministry teams like Children, Kitchen, Greeting, Sound Room, Music, Shut-In’s, and more. Thank you for considering where you may be interested in serving! Please sign up HERE. Questions can be directed to Kevin Hardy.

RESOURCES

Detailed List of Ministry Opportunities at Ebenezer BFC:
  • Activities Committee – Host all-church events and sports (Chili Cook-Off, The Not-So Amazing Race, Picnic, etc)
  • Adult Electives – Teach Sunday morning classes for adults
  • Aesthetics Team – Help with the interior decor of the church
  • Benevolence – Field requests for monetary help
  • Caregivers – Assist with light maintenance and home care for widows, single moms, elderly, etc.
  • Children’s Ministries: Minister to grades 5 and younger through Sunday School, Children’s Church, Nursery, or Wednesday Night Kids Club
  • College Ministry – Teach/Lead/Disciple college-age young adults for Sunday School, Bible Study, special events
  • Counting Offering – Help count the offering
  • Church Safety – Help be the eyes and ears that keep gathering safe
  • Library – Help patrons sign out books, and keep the books catalogued and shelved
  • Kinship Groups – Host/Teach/Assist with these small-group fellowships that meet every-other Sunday evening Sept-May at various homes.
  • Kitchen/Events – Help maintain the kitchen and cook for all-church events
  • Meals: Meal Train – Set up an online sign-up for families needing meals due to emergency, new baby, sickness, etc.
  • Meals: Funeral Luncheons – Help order & serve food for funeral luncheons at the church
  • Men’s Ministry – Help teach/lead/host Bible studies, breakfasts, conferences, events for men
  • Ministry Assimilation – Help people get plugged in to serving at Ebenezer
  • Missions Committee – Help support, care for, share about the missionaries supported by Ebenezer
  • MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) – Leadership Team and Children’s workers needed for this women’s fellowship that meets 1st & 3rd Thursday Mornings, Sept – May.
  • Ordinances – Help prepare for communion and baptism
  • Outreach & Evangelism – Join the team in ministering to our community
  • Property Committee – Help keep the church in good repair
  • Senior Fellowship – Help organize monthly luncheons and events for ages 55+
  • Shut-Ins Ministry – Reach out to our elderly through cards, phone calls, visits
  • Simulcast, Media, Sound – Help with the the technical aspects of the Sunday morning worship services
  • Support Groups – Lead a group for DivorceCare, GriefShare, addictions, etc
  • Technology – Help keep the church’s tech running smoothly: work stations, internet, wifi, server, etc
  • Transportation – Help keep the church’s two vehicles ready for use
  • Ushers – Help with Sunday morning seating and offering
  • Wedding Coordinator – Assist couples with the details of their special day
  • Welcome Ministry – Be a Greeter, host the Welcome Counter, or help host Welcome Lunches on Sundays
  • Women’s Ministry – Help plan/host/teach Bible Studies, Fellowship Times, Conferences, and Special Events for women
  • Worship – Join our team of musicians and vocalists who lead the Worship on Sunday mornings
  • Youth Ministry – Minister to grades 6-12 through Sunday School, Tuesday Youth Group, small groups
Saved to Serve Class at Ebenezer BFC:

CLICK HERE to sign up for our next Saved to Serve Class. It’s a 6 week class held twice a year during the Sunday School hour on Sunday mornings (10:05 – 11:00 am). This class is focused on discovering what you are good at doing and then discovering ways to serve the Lord in those ways, whether it is here at Ebenezer or elsewhere.

Identifying Your Spiritual Gift:

Articles: Respected Christian leaders teach us more about Biblical Servanthood and Spiritual Gifts

Scripture: Scripture verses with a focus on serving & spiritual gifts
  • Set free from sin and saved to serve: Gal. 5:13  For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
  • Reminders on the spiritual gifts given to each believer and purpose of serving:
    • 1 Peter 4:10-11  As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace. Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
    • Ephesians 4:11-16  And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds[fn] and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood,[fn] to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
  • Understanding our God-given desires and passions: Psalm 37:3-6 Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
  • Uniqueness and diversity of believers in how each is gifted:
    • 1 Corinthians 12 (whole chapter)
    • Romans 12:1-13  I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 4 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; 7 if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; 8 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. 9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. 11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. 12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. 13 Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
  • Jesus model of serving others:
    • John 13:14-17  14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
    • Mark 10:45  For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • Sisters Mary and Martha inviting Jesus into their home: Luke 10:38-42 – 38 Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. 40 But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” 41 But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, 42 but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”