DUTY DEACONS ROTA 2019-2020

If you cannot make a date please ensure you have swapped and marked as necessary:

SUNDAY DUTIES:

Before

• Arrive by 10 a.m. Unlock doors to chapel and vestry. Check notice on the extension window

• Fill carafes – one for Communion table, one for back of the church: don't forget the glasses • Switch lights on over  pulpit, cross, chapel

• Put up hymn numbers (if not done by projectionist)

• Arrange chairs in vestry ready for prayers before service

• Check collection plate is on the communion table • Lead vestry prayers and open the Bible on the Communion table. Arrange for two servers if it's Communion

After

• Remind duty deacon for following Sunday

• Return carafes to kitchen, if communion collect up glasses for washing

• Check the kitchen is closed up and the toilet.

• Remove numbers from hymn board. Store in the pulpit, and switch off cross light and close the bible. Turn off all other lights – pulpit and main switch.

• Ensure the vestry is cleared for the nursery – chairs and table into the church (except school holidays)

• Check loudspeaker is off and projector  (if projectionist has not done so)

• Check all external doors are locked, All internal doors should be shut except the one between chapel and welcome room

April 2019

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