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Serving Teams

The Bible describes the church as a body with many parts all uniquely gifted to serve. At The Globe Church, we believe that everyone who joins us has been brought here by God to use their gifts in a variety of ways. We need each other.

God calls us to come and serve him with our bodies, with our gifts, with our resources as a key aspect of our day-to-day worship. Serving is a wonderful way to honour and glorify God particularly in the ways we serve Christ’s body, the Church, and those made in God’s image outside the Church. It is something that God calls all followers of Jesus to do.

At Globe, we believe in five values which are foundational to the way we serve:

  • Dependent: Prayerfully depending on God’s power for everything we need.
  • Relational: Embracing and overcoming city life to be a family.
  • Discipling: Equipping a generation to live all of life for Jesus.
  • Missional: Confidently living to make Christ known to all people.
  • Generous: Committed to sharing resources to be a blessing to others.

These values underpin the serving teams in the way they enable the Church to gather from across London, deepen in these four areas and then go back to London so that we may be those who are better equipped, relationally deeper, and more confident to share Christ and our lives generously with those around us.

Serving can range from coming alongside a brother or sister having a tough time, helping the homeless, leading others in prayer, getting involved in door-knocking evangelism or catering for large gatherings.

At Globe we would love to help you use and develop the gifts that God has given you and a great way to do that is to get involved in a serving team.

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Catering

Our church is a family, so we deeply value eating together. The Catering Team make meals for Sundays and midweek gatherings.

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Catering

Clare Doughty
Team leader: Clare Doughty
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Activities

This is a really practical team that wants to provide opportunities for those gathered to break bread together and share in fellowship.

This will involve helping with cooking meals for Sunday services, Globe Centrals and other periodic events.

How the team works

Usually there will be 4 people for each catering slot with one designated leader and three helpers who will cook together for each meal.

It’s a great way to build friendships across the team but also to be trained in mass catering.

A food hygiene certificate is required by everyone on the team, but the church will provide training. Recipes and ingredients are all provided – you just need to come ready to chop, stir and serve!

Typical Commitment

Roughly once a month on a Sunday at 2.45pm, and for adhoc midweek events.

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English Conversation Café

Love and serve the international community of London.

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English Conversation Café

Rachel Weller Sarah Cleary
Team leaders: Rachel Weller, and Sarah Cleary
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Activities

Every other Monday, we run an event for people to come and practise their English with us. The team will meet at 7pm for set up and prayer. Guests are invited to come from 7:30–8:30pm.

One member of the team will have prepared a topic, e.g. British summertime, with some conversational aids to help people get talking. We’ll often try to end the evening with a simple, quick game.

Our hope is to build relationships, which can lead to discussions about Jesus and invitations to Church or other evangelistic events.

How the team works

Team members sign up for the evenings they can attend and volunteer to prepare the topic via a WhatsApp poll.

We try to have 5–8 team members at each evening.

We otherwise communicate via a WhatsApp group.

Typical Commitment

1 hr 30 on a Monday night, once or twice a month (it runs every fortnight).

You need to have been at Globe for at least three months before joining this team.

Evangelism

If you want to be envisioned, equipped and enabled to share Jesus with all sorts of people in London – this is the team for you.

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Evangelism

James Tredgett
Team leader: James Tredgett

Activities

Every Sunday, 2-3.15pm in the Tinies room there is either a ‘Globe GO’, or ‘Globe GROW’ event. GO is about visiting those in the local community, showing love and telling people about the God who loves them more.

GROW is where we recieve training on worldviews, tricky doctrine and more, to grow your ability to share and defend the gospel.

There’s room for so much more and we welcome your ideas on we can better share the gospel with London!

How the team works

Evangelistic work is often seen as ‘come and see’ (inviting friends to gospel events, like Christianity Explored, or a Carol service) but we also want to focus on ‘going and telling’. 1/2 Londoners don’t have a Christian friend, so will never get an invite to an event. We must go, engage with strangers lovingly and point them to Christ.

This is the focus of this team and we can help oneanother to do this tough but rewarding work.

James T is happy to meet up in the week for community outreach, if that would work better for you.

Typical Commitment

Sundays whenever you can make it, 2pm-3.15pm, Tinies room in Ark Globe Academy.

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Finance

The Finance Team is in charge of encouraging a generous and biblical culture of giving, while helping the church to be a good steward of its finances.

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Finance

Emma Joseph James Docherty
Team leaders: Emma Joseph, and James Docherty

Activities

The Finance team work closely with the Eldership to manage budgets for the church annually.

The team will also handle expenses, accounts and help with Giving Sundays and generosity projects throughout the year.

How the team works

The team will deal with practical aspects of the finances of the church but would love to expand in developing a culture of generosity across the life of the church so that we can reflect more of an Acts 2:42-48 church gathering.

Typical Commitment

Periodic meetings in the term as and when required.

You need to be a formal church member to serve on this team.

Kids

This team exists to welcome and disciple children within The Globe Church. For toddlers to school year four.

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Kids

Beth Upton Issy Kendall
Team leaders: Beth Upton, and Issy Kendall
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Activities

We run three kids groups during the sermon section of our service. ‘Tinies’ is from 0–3, ‘Minis’ is for 4+ and ‘Buddies’ is a group tailored for those with additional needs.

This enables kids to engage with God’s word in a way that is age-appropriate, and it frees up their adults to sit through the talk.

How the team works

Each Sunday, there’s one leader and 1–2 helpers per kids group. The leaders are sent teaching material and prepare the story, game, craft, etc.

The helpers assist and support the leader in anyway they can during the session, 20 minutes before church they run the check in desk and help with set up.

Every team member will require an enhanced DBS check and will need to complete a safeguarding course, both of which the Church will organise. We manage the rota in ChurchSuite app.

There are also optional opportunities for team members to be paired with families through something called the ‘adopt-a-family’ scheme.

Typical Commitment

Once every 4 weeks, it’ll be 1hr during the Sunday service.

You need to have been at Globe for 6 months before joining this team. Group leaders need to be church members.

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Music

The music team leads the church in singing together. We aspire to help everyone fully engage in heart, mind, soul and strength.

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Music

Sachay Joshua Tara Fry
Team leaders: Sachay Joshua, and Tara Fry
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Activities

On Sundays, the band meets before the service to practise the songs and prepare our hearts. In leading, we want to be passionate in worship, joyful in praise, genuine in response, and committed in encouraging one another – so that as others look at us, they are helped to do the same.

There may also be other gatherings where the team will help lead in singing (e.g. Globe Centrals, events, weekends away, etc.)

How the team works

We have regular team gatherings, where we workshop musical skills, try out new songs, pray, develop team relationships and look at the Bible.

These times are the driver behind all our activity, and the best place for new people to explore joining the team.

Typical Commitment

  • Usually playing once every 3–4 weeks on a Sunday, meeting before the services for 1.5 hours of
    rehearsal.
  • To attend team music mornings as much as possible (usually 4 a year).

You need to be a church member to serve on this team.

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Prayer

This team helps lead and encourage us in the bedrock of all we do: prayer. They organise Globe Central, Prayer Weeks, and our regular church prayer life.

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Prayer

Emma Joseph Jonty Allcock
Team leaders: Emma Joseph, and Jonty Allcock
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Activities

The team thinks about how to help The Globe Church grow in its prayer life. This can be done through prayer gatherings, like Central, or through regular prayer slots on Sundays during, before and after the service.

As a team we also organise and run an annual Week of Prayer to help encourage a culture of prayer in the church.

How the team works

Meeting regularly throughout the term to pray together and think about how to help the church pray when gathered and scattered.

Helping to lead elements of prayer at monthly Globe Centrals, prayers on Sundays and helping to organise and run the Week of Prayer that happens annually.

Typical Commitment

  • Once or twice a term for a team meeting.
  • Helping at regular events like Central and Sundays.
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Safeguarding

The team wants to ensure the wellbeing of all those who serve and attend The Globe Church to make certain that the church is a welcome and safe place.

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Safeguarding

Kimberly Davis
Team leader: Kimberly Davis

Activities

The safeguarding team oversees all things related to safeguarding. This can include writing and maintaining policies or conducting DBS checks on those working or volunteering with children or vulnerable adults.

The team is also on call to respond to safeguarding issues that may arise within the church to ascertain what next steps may be required.

How the team works

The team meets monthly to pray and discuss all matters safeguarding.

This will involve a discussion of any safeguarding issues, updates to policies, training that may be required and structures and processes that need to be put into place to help the church remain well safeguarded.

Typical Commitment

Once a month meetings and adhoc support to safeguarding concerns.

You must be a church member to serve on this team.

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Set up and pack down

Preparing the venues for our church family to gather and worship God together.

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Set up and pack down

Ema Pogar
Team leader: Ema Pogar
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Activities

We arrange chairs, carry boxes, and set up the venue ready for church to worship in. And then we return the venues to the way that we found them!

How the team works

Generally, 2-3 people will meet at 1.15pm to set up ahead of the afternoon service. Then 6 other people will set down the 4pm service from about 6:15–7pm.

There’s training when you join the team and we have handy boxes and trolleys to help with the job.

We use the ChurchSuite app to manage the rota.

Typical commitment

Once a month before or after the church services.

Plus, optional support for occasional church events.

This team requires 40 people to function well, which is around 1 in 6 people at Globe, please consider joining if you feel able.

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Social media

Sharing information and updates about upcoming events and the life of the church using social media.

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Social media

Team leader: Jodie Sang
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Activities

We create posts promoting upcoming events and keeping people updated on what’s going on in the life of the church.

Through this, we hope to create content for members of the church to share with friends to help invite people along to events, as well as give an impression of what life is like at The Globe Church for anyone searching for a church to join in London.

How the team works

We keep an eye on the church calendar and share out the media content we’d like to create, whether that be still images, videos, audio, or written posts.

We also discuss how best to use social media to serve God and His people, and what content would be beneficial to people in the church, or those considering coming along.

Typical commitment

2 hours of content creating and editing over a month. You can help out whenever suits you.

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Tech & AV

For everyone to be able to hear and engage with God’s word as it’s shared, worshipping God without distraction.

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Tech & AV

Alastair Whitelaw
Team leader: Alastair Whitelaw
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Activities

We enable all aspects of the service to be experienced in the most natural way possible, without distraction or someone struggling to hear.

Being a member of this team involves:

  • Setting up all of the sound and visual equipment
  • Running the sound desk and church laptop for song words
  • Helping to pack down all of the technical equipment ready for the setup/pack down team to take away.
  • Adhoc tech support for church events such as Globe Central.

How the team works

Our team work in pairs each week to set up, run and pack down all the tech for the service.

If you can plug a cable into a power socket this is the serving team for you! All training provided, no prior experience required.

Typical commitment

Serving one Sunday a month at either the 10.30am service or 4pm service.

Twice a year training sessions with the music band on Sunday mornings.

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Webber Street

We are a missional team aiming to overcome barriers faced by the homeless community that prevent them hearing the gospel and being integrated into church. Our team partners with London City Mission to host a monthly meal for guests at the Webber Street Centre (Waterloo).

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Webber Street

Emily Brooke Harrison Jones Theo Hunt
Team leaders: Emily Brooke, Harrison Jones, and Theo Hunt
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Activities

Once a month we host a meal to eat with the Webber Street guests and a team member shares a 5-10 min Bible talk. The focus is less around serving them food, and more around extending hospitality and friendship to some of the city’s marginalised. Think of it like being a church family and inviting guests in.

Some of the team also meet with guests outside of the monthly meal to pray (in 3s), have a coffee, and walk to church.

How the team works

Kitchen volunteers (after receiving food hygiene training) cook and prepare the meal in the kitchen (from 6pm).

The majority of the team (10–14 volunteers) simply spend time with the Webber Street guests, chatting, eating together, and serving food. We typically have 15–25 guests.

Typical Commitment

From 6:30–9pm on the first Tuesday of the month.

You need to have been at Globe for 3 months before joining this team.

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Welcome

We are the friendly team in the orange jackets on the doors. Our aim is to make people feel welcome when they arrive at church. We worship the God who welcomes all in and we want to reflect this in how we welcome people at The Globe Church.

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Welcome

Charlotte Ko
Team leader: Charlotte Ko
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Activities

For those coming to church, the welcome team are often the first people they will meet so we aim to greet them with a big smile, catch up with them and help them feel welcome.

As well as being friendly, we help steward people to sit together in a way that helps maximise use of the space but also encourages people to keep chatting with and welcoming one another.

How the team works

We use the ChurchSuite app to manage the rotas.

Each Sunday and at Globe Central there will be a small team on welcome. One team member will be outside at street level, the others will help direct people to and in the hall, welcoming them and helping people get seated.

Typical Commitment

The main welcoming happens each Sunday for 45 minutes before the service, and at the Globe Central meetings from 6:45pm on the first Wednesday of each month.

Joining the welcome team means serving roughly once a month.

You need to have been at Globe for 3 months before joining this team.

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World Mission

We’re passionate about people from every nation having the opportunity to hear about Jesus and support the church in taking the gospel to the world.

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World Mission

Dominic Barrow
Team leader: Dominic Barrow
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Activities

The team helps the church to build, sustain and grow relationships with our mission partners.

We also help the church get excited and grow in our understanding and passion for taking the gospel to the nations by facilitating ad hoc events like World Mission Sunday.

We share resources to support people on their journey of discerning what role world mission plays in their life, and produce a newsletter to provide the church with updates from our mission partners.

How the team works

We meet to discuss and plan how to support the church family to be passionate about and involved in World Mission.

Team members have different roles, such as writing the newsletter or supporting a particular mission partner.

Each year the team organises a World Mission Sunday as well as other events in collaboration with our mission partners.

Typical Commitment

2-3 team meetings a year. Commitment is flexible depending on your capacity and your role within the team.

You need to be a church member to serve on this team.

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