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Serving Opportunities

The future of Fairhaven Church is directly tied to its ability to attract, equip, and unleash the potential of volunteers. Serving is not just a core value for Fairhaven, it’s the future! We are praying that as God leads you to Fairhaven, he will also inspire you to use your God-given gifts, education and talents to serve in the Kingdom. We’ll train you, encourage you and celebrate with you as you experience God’s power through serving.

Would you prefer to talk with someone face-to-face about serving? Then stop by the Serving Opportunities desk during any of our weekend services! Located just outside the worship center, it’s the place to go to get involved with any one of the multitude of service opportunities being offered at Fairhaven, in our community, and around the world. We'd love to talk with you about how you can get involved and experience God's blessing through serving.

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Early Childhood

Contact in the church office (937-434-8627 ext. 146) for more information.

Sprout Class Teachers and Helpers

We are in need of substitute teachers and weekly helpers during our services. Teachers prepare a simple lesson with provided curriculum, prepare a craft and serve a snack. Helpers assist teachers with caring for the children and managing the classrooms.

Nursery Caregivers

Caregivers and room leaders are needed for our Seedlings (ages 0-2) during worship services. Responsibilities include playing with the children, ensuring their safety, rocking, reading books and comforting them. Select from these times:

Saturday, 5:45–7:30 PM
Sunday, 9:15–11:00 AM
Sunday, 11:00 AM–12:45 PM

Special Events Planners/Helpers

Help plan and carry out special events throughout the year. Shopping for food, preparing crafts, event set-up and teardown and helping with the children during the events are some of the ways you can help.

Kids

Contact in the church office (937-434-8627 ext. 131) for more information.

Kids Leaders
Saturdays, 5:45-7:20 PM

Assist with the elementary kids during the Saturday service.

Camp Leaders
June 13-15, June 19-21

Looking to do something great with your summer? How about being a KidMix Camp team member?

KidMix Welcome Desk

Greet, inform and escort new visitors and their kids to their classrooms. Serve as little as one service a month, one our before and 15 minutes during each service.

KidMix Hostess
Sundays, 9:05-9:45 AM or 11:00-11:40 AM

Greet and assist incoming visitors as they enter the KidMix room.

Summer Leaders
Sundays, 9:05-9:45 AM or 10:55 AM-12:45 PM

Lead a team of kids during the 9:30 or 11:15 Sunday services.

Slide Attendants

Did you know it takes 4-6 people to run the KidMix slide for each service? We need people to assist kids going down the slide, help kids find their classroom, and run slide bags back upstairs.

Summer Check-In Team Member

Assist with computer check-in.

Special Needs

Contact in the church office (937-434-8627 ext. 134) for more information.

GEMs Classroom Aides
Sundays, 11:15 AM

Have an interest in working with elementary-age kids with special needs, but can't commit every Sunday? Consider being a GEMs classroom aide. This is a month-by-month commitment.

Middle School and Elementary Buddies

Provide one-on-one classroom support for a child with special needs in the middle school or elementary classes.

Classroom Cleaning

Want to serve behind the scenes? Consider volunteering twice a month to clean toys in the GEMs classroom.

Next Generation

Contact in the church office (937-434-8627 ext. 116) for more information.

Food Coordinator

Organize and supply food weekly on Wednesday nights at Elevate from 6:00-8:00 PM. Must like middle school students!

Ministry Display

Responsible for organizing and setting up ministry displays for retreats and other activities as needed through-out the year. A general like of middle school students would be helpful!

Venue Directors

If you have the passion to produce or direct and a desire to make a venue the best that it can be then we have some opportunities for you. Next Gen is looking for directors to help run our main ministry events.

Adult 55+

Contact in the church office (937-434-8627 ext. 155) for more information.

Sonshiners

The Sonshiners minister in three senior adult living facilities in our area. They are composed of three teams that plan and conduct a monthly worship service in each facility.

Sonshiners One-On-One

In an effort to build deeper, more meaningful relationships, Sonshiners are matched with individual residents in nursing homes to minister in a more personal manner: one-onone. There is a basic training, and then volunteers visit their assigned resident once a month.

V-Team

Similar to Sonshiners One-On-One, V-Team members are individually assigned to church shut-ins. V-Team members are asked to visit their shut-in at least once a month and to provide a brief report that allows us to remain informed when there's a changing need.

Music Ensemble

Enjoy singing the old hymns? The residents at the nursing homes we serve enjoy hearing them. We're forming a music ensemble to share their singing talents in the nursing homes.

Outreach

Contact in the church office (937-434-8627 ext. 151) for more information.

School Tutoring
Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30 PM

Assist with after school tutoring of elementary children at John F. Kennedy School.

English Tutoring
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:00-7:00 PM

Help African Refugees with conversational English.

First Impressions

The First Impressions Ministry has openings on all of our teams. If you are interested in serving as an usher, greeter, valet parking attendant, welcome center host or stocking Worship Center pews please contact in the church office (937-434-8627 ext. 114) for more information. Our rotating schedules provide flexibility so that everyone who desires to serve has the opportunity to do so.

Valet Parking
Shift options - Sundays, 9:00-9:40 AM; 10:30-11:25 AM and 12:30-12:50 PM

Assist with parking cars and driving the golf cart shuttle on Sundays for the 9:30 & 11:15 AM services.

Ushers
Shift options - Saturdays, 5:30-7:15 PM;
Sundays, 7:30-9:00 AM, 9:00-10:30 AM and 10:45 AM-12:30 PM

Provide a heartfelt greeting and a bulletin, monitor seating availability and assist with seating needs, collect the offering. We need people who are focused on their role and are comfortable with assisting guests with their seating needs.

Greeters
Shift Options - Saturdays, 5:30-6:05 PM;
Sundays, 7:30-8:05 AM, 9:00-9:35 AM; 10:45-11:20 AM

Provide a warm welcome to people as they enter the building and give direction as needed.

Pew Stocking

Straighten and restock Worship Center pew supplies. Can be done anytime on Thursday, Friday or Saturday morning and takes approximately 30 minutes.

Welcome Center Host
Shift Options - Saturdays, 5:30-7:30 PM;
Sundays, 7:30-9:15 AM; 9:15-10:45 AM; 10:45 AM-12:30 PM

Answer questions, direct/escort guests to appropriate check-in locations and provide new guests with resources that will educate them about what Fairhaven offers. We are looking for people who are at ease talking to anyone and everyone and are comfortable with not knowing all the answers off the top of their head but willing to take the time and use the tools provided to find the them.

Fusion at the MAC Greeter
Sundays, 10:45 AM-12:30 PM

Welcome people to the service and give them a bulletin, be available to answer questions and/or give directions, collect the offering at the end of service. We need high energy extroverts to fill this position!

Community Life & Connecting

Sunday Sermon Distribution

We currently drop off DVDs of each week's sermon to local nursing homes and shut-ins. For more information, call the church office or contact in the church office (937-434-8627 ext. 107).

Community Care

The Community Care Ministry was created to provide practical and compassionate care to people within our Fairhaven family in times of need (surgery, illness, accident, etc.). Our most frequently requested service is homemade meals and we could use some more Meal Providers. If you would be willing to occasionally make/deliver a homemade meal, please contact the .

Ministry Arts

Tech Volunteers & Worship Team

Ever wonder how the song lyrics get up here on the screen? Or wonder if you could play with our worship band on Sunday mornings? Well, why not find out! We're always looking for additional volunteers to help run the technology and play the music for our worship services here, so if you're interested in helping out with either, please contact .

Facilities

Monday Morning Men

This group meets the first Monday of the month (9:00 AM) to handle various handyman work projects around church facilities. We start with coffee, donuts, a devotional, and then ... get to work!

Parking Team

The very first impression of Fairhaven Church is made in the PARKING LOT! So we need a team public relations specialists managing the entrances and exits to make sure it's a good one.

Shuttle Drivers

To make more room in the church parking lot on Sundays, many people park off site. And we need van drivers to shuttle people back and forth on Sunday mornings. Can you take a turn driving once or twice a month?

Security

We're building a positive, people oriented team that will promote safety and know how to handle emergencies.

African Christian Community Center
Mugo Kiswile, ACCCDayton@gmail.com

A local organization of volunteers whose mission is to help support the African refugee and immigrant communities in the greater Dayton area

Opportunities: Teaching English as a second language (ESL); tutoring youth on Tuesdays/Thursdays; providing transportation to classes, medical care and social services; assistance with work protocol, immigration issues, interpretation and translation, computer literacy, cooking classes

American Red Cross
Susan Sparks, ses2975@aol.com

As part of a worldwide movement, the American Red Cross distinguishes itself by aiding victims of devastating natural disasters.

Opportunities: Disaster volunteers, providing relief to victims of disasters or home fires, locally or nationally (training required)

Dayton Christian Center
Tasha Johnson, tjohnson@DaytonChristianCenter.org

One of 21 neighborhood action centers whose mission is to provide essential and supportive services to individuals and families seeking better lives

Opportunities: Meal preparation and delivery; kitchen cleaning; menu planning; procurement volunteer for Food Bank pick-ups; building and ground maintenance; office work; classroom assistant; tutoring; data entry; basic tax return assistance for clients

Dayton Circles
John Wilson, DaytonCirclesSouth@gmail.com

Local chapter of a national Circles Campaign that attempts to help low-income families break the cycle of poverty by building a circle of "allies" around them

Opportunities with training: Leadership team members; "allies" to befriend and mentor families out of poverty

No training: Groups to purchase/cook/serve a dinner meal on Tuesdays; childcare workers for preschool–junior high; help subsidize childcare costs

Fairhaven SonShiners Ministry
Marge Shaver, Marges13@zoomtown.com

Plans and conducts monthly worship services in three area nursing homes and provides one-on-one visitation to both nursing home residents and shut-ins

Opportunities: Serve with a team of volunteers to plan and coordinate worship services within the nursing home; visit shut-ins and nursing home residents

International Friends
Carl & Renna Bertsche, rbbertsche@gmail.com

As a local chapter of a national faith-based organization, this outreach ministry provides various services that address the social, cultural, and spiritual interests of international students. No visa or foreign language required.

Opportunities: Serve as a local friend to an international college student through weekly emails or phone calls and monthly social meetings (meals, holidays, events, etc.)

John F. Kennedy Elementary School Tutoring (Kettering)
Bev Sheridan, dsheridan@woh.rr.com

Tutoring third, fourth and fifth graders with their homework

Opportunities: Weekly commitment, Tuesdays from 2:30-3:30 PM

Kettering Cares: Make a Difference Day (Saturday, October 27)
(937-434-8627 ext. 151)

Annual one-day event, sponsored by the City of Kettering, to assist older home owners with house repairs and yard work

Opportunities: Most work requires ability to lift 10 pounds; some experience with home repair and/or lawn care is helpful; great project for a Community Group

Life Enrichment Center
Liz Wilson, lawilson002@gmail.com

Faith-based, non-profit organization working in collaboration with area-wide partners to provide the life-building, life-sustaining services to the under-served in the greater Dayton area

Opportunities: Class facilitators; receptionists; kitchen support; bike mechanics; general and deep cleaning; preparing/serving meals; organizing; grounds keeping; administrative tasks; small construction projects; collecting and donating clothes, food, craft materials. Open Monday-Friday

Miami Valley Women's Center
Pat Foote, pajobe@earthlink.net

Helping young women from the Greater Dayton area find answers and faith-based help with issues surrounding unplanned pregnancies, abortion and many other life issues

Opportunities with training: Client advocate, support group leader, middle school mentor, men's mentor

No training: prayer team; diaper drive; facility maintenance; event committees; baking team; child care helper

Oak Creek Food Pantry
Bernie Williams, bernie2349@sbcglobal.net

Joint effort of 3 churches – Oak Creek UCC, St. Charles, and Fairhaven – providing volunteers and funding to feed those in need within the 45440 and 45429 zip codes

Opportunities: Every Thursday from 5:30- 7:00 PM. Fill boxes of groceries take to client's cars (on carts)

Rebuilding Together: Dayton (Saturday, April 28)
Dennis Schum, toservehim@att.net

The only organization in the Miami Valley dedicated to rehabbing owner-occupied homes for low-income homeowners at no cost

Opportunities: Basic home repairs, painting, landscaping, providing lunches. Great project for a Community Group

St. Vincent's Homeless Shelter Breakfast Team
Dave Sheridan, dsheridan@woh.rr.com

Dayton faith-based organization assisting the homeless and impoverished

Opportunities: Cook/Serve breakfast every Saturday morning (except the first Saturday) from 4:30 - 7:30 AM

Target Dayton Ministries
Cindy Kahut, CindyKahut@yahoo.com

A church for the poor and homeless in the inner city of Dayton, providing delicious hot meals and evangelistic services

Opportunities: Servers/kitchen help/cleanup (Tue-Fri mornings 6:00–7:30 AM; Wed, Sat, Sun evenings 5:00–7:00 PM); Drivers to transport guests in Target Dayton vans to/from various shelters. Ideal for individuals, families and Community Groups

Trails of Oakcreek Ministry
Mike McQuinn, MMcqu71415@aol.com

Ministering to low-income families that live in a federally subsidized housing area just down the street from Fairhaven

Opportunities: Serve at one of their seven annual events, including summer block parties, turkey drive, school supplies drive, Trunk or Treat, and a Christmas party. Ideal for individuals or Community Groups

The future of Fairhaven Church is directly tied to its ability to attract, equip, and unleash the potential of volunteers. Serving is not just a core value for Fairhaven, it's the future! We are praying that as God leads you to Fairhaven, he will also inspire you to use your God-given gifts, education and talents to serve in the Kingdom. We'll train you, encourage you and celebrate with you as you experience God's power through serving.

Would you prefer to talk with someone face-to-face about serving? Then stop by the Serving Opportunities desk during our weekend service! Located in the Atrium, it’s the place to go to get involved with any one of the multitude of service opportunities being offered at Fairhaven, in our community, and around the world. We'd love to talk with you about how you can get involved and experience God's blessing through serving.

If you are interested or would like more information about any of the serving opportunities below please contact in the church office (937-836-1069).

SERVE FAIRHAVEN
SERVE DAYTON