The following areas and descriptions are what we see as a need at this time:
Prayer Team: Willing to pray continuously for Day Camp Team and kids. Available to receive prayer requests from the Day Camp director.
Large Group Volunteer Job Descriptions
Host: Serves as the emcee; usually welcomes the kids; may transition to the Bible story and worship; dismisses the kids to Small Group.
Worship Team: Leads children and Small Group Leaders in a fun and meaningful time of worship through music and motions. Practices 3 times per week.
Tech Team: Works together to provide audio, video, and computer graphics during Large group gatherings.
Producer: Oversees and directs the Large Group environment; makes sure onstage and backstage volunteers are ready to go; keeps a close watch on time.
Small Group Volunteer Job Descriptions
Small Group Coach: Provides leadership and support to a team of Small Group Leaders and oversees the learning environment in the classroom during the week.
Small Group Leader: Becomes the primary model or teacher for a group of up to 8 kids (10 kids max). Stays with the same group all week; encourages spiritual growth, relationships, discussion, and other Small Group activities.
Small Group Helper: Helps Small Group Leader as directed.
Host Team: Greets and helps with check-in/registration process and explains the security procedures to families upon registration.
Activity Track Volunteer Job Descriptions
Crafts Director: Oversees preparation and setup of craft area; communicates and organizes needed supplies. Facilitates craft activities; manages and trains craft helpers.
Games Director: Communicates, collects and organizes all Game supplies; oversees preparation and setup of the game area; facilitates games with each group of kids; manages and trains game helpers.
Missions Director: Oversees preparation and setup of missions area; works with Day Camp director to communicate daily promotion of Missions project during Large Group time.
Music Director: Oversees preparation and setup of music class; downloads all needed music, dance motions videos, and graphics; enlists the help of the tech team; trains volunteers to help teach the music class.
Helper Team Job Descriptions
Crafts Helper: Help Crafts Leader where needed.
Music Helper: Help Music Leader where needed.
Games Helper: Help Games Leader where needed.
Registration Helper: Follows Registration processes and helps kids get to their needed areas.
Follow-Up Leader: Someone wiling to help with follow-up process. This may include: assisting in gathering and mailing “Follow-up”/ “Thank You For Coming” post cards, flyers for upcoming church events, and other new ideas of outreach ministry.
Donations Leader: Organizes what items are needed to be donated for this year’s Day Camp and a way that it can be effectively communicated to the congregation. Kim Smith can help you know where to go to gather the info needed.
Materials Manager: A servant to manage all the donations as they come in.
Decorations Team Helper: Helps Decorations Leader where needed.
Clean-up Crew: Willing to help take all decorations down and help get the church building back to its original state.
Early Babysitter: Nursery help for Day Camp Volunteers. Watch young kids during daily team prayer times, 8:00 - 8:40 AM.
Nursery: Nursery help during Day Camp Program. Ages: Babies – 2 yr. olds. Needed from 8:45AM – 12:20 PM each day Press Play Day Camp is running.
Trainer: Train team to lead kids and others to Christ.
Preschool Director: Oversees the Preschool Program.
Preschool Bible Leader: Creatively teaches the Bible lesson of the day using drama and props and engaging the preschoolers in the lesson. Everything is laid out in the manual to follow. Prep time is necessary.
Preschool Games Leader: Lead games for preschoolers. All games are laid out in the Leaders manual.
Preschool Helper: Follows Preschool leader’s directions.
Buddies: Teens (around age 11-13) willing to “buddy up” with a needed child to help them go through the Preschool program.
T-Shirts: Distribute t-shirts to Day Camp Team.
Coin Counter: Count Missions project donations. It will be mostly coins. Lots of pennies!! Time involved: about an hour per day will be needed. Counting will be done around 9:35am, right after the Large Group gathering.
Photographer: Takes pictures during Day Camp days. (Snapshots, digital or video) Develop slide show or video with footage taken for Sunday’s service.
I’m Available: Available to help out where needed.
Ahead of Time Help: Available to help out with ahead of time prep work.
Substitutes/Floaters: Willing to serve as subs or floaters as the needs arise.
Phone Help: Makes needed phone calls for communication to the Day Camp team as the need arises.
Security: Willing to be around to watch for any security or emergency issues if they were to ever arise.
Your Own Ideas: We are open to other ideas.
If you have and questions, please do not hesitate to contact Kim Smith.
Children@DearbornFMChurch.org
We hope you are able to join us on our mission!
