Serve

Worship at St. Paul's is a shared experience, and your gifts make it possible! Consider serving in one of these meaningful roles:

📖 Lector – Share God's Word by reading scripture during worship.
🚪 Usher – Offer hospitality by greeting, assisting with seating, and collecting the offering.
🙏 Assisting Minister – Lead prayers and assist in worship leadership.
🕊️ Altar Guild – Prepare the altar and communion elements.
🍞 Communion Assistant – Help distribute communion as we share in Christ’s meal together.

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Join other volunteers at the Urban Ministries of Durham Community Cafe. During our monthly volunteer shift, you'll help with meal prep and serve lunch.

Sign-Up to Serve.

A program of the Grief Coalition of area organizations and Christian churches to offer support and education to those who mourn. The group meets weekly on Tuesdays at St. Paul's and is open to all.  To hear a bit more about Growing thru Grief, use this link.

​Experience the vibrant Music Ministry at St. Paul's, where the volunteer-based Chancel Choir and Laudate Hand Bell Choir enrich worship services with diverse sacred music traditions. Open to all skill levels, these ensembles offer a welcoming community for musical expression and spiritual connection.

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We are continuing to stock the St. Paul’s Shelf at Parktown Food Hub with Pasta for Parktown. The Women’s Connection Group is leading this initiative to support the Parktown Food Hub, a ministry of South Durham Connections, led by Pastor Sharon Schulze. 

Needed items: dry boxed pasta – spaghetti, macaroni, ziti, penne, etc. (NOT: kits or dinner, nor canned pasta entrees).

This ministry begins anew each September. It is much like a "secret pal" activity as each participant draws a name of another participant, does not reveal who it is, and begins a year of praying for that specific person. There is only one meeting a year with this ministry -- September -- to draw a name and "reveal" who your partner was the previous year.

The "Dropped Stitch" group gathers once a month for fellowship while they knit and crochet. Besides making prayer shawls, they crochet or knit tiny hats for premature babies born in the Triangle's neonatal intensive care units.  They have since added "Pocket Prayer Shawls" which are small enough to be placed in a pocket to be kept close at hand.

The purpose the Tongue & Thimble group is to make small comforters and warming bed covers for use in the neonatal and children's intensive care units at Duke Hospital and NC Children's Hospital in Chapel Hill plus Murdock Center for developmentally disabled adults in Butner. In addition, they make pillow-case style dresses which are sent to identified sites where such are needed. We also give a comforter to newly baptized babies and young children at St. Paul's.  To hear a bit more about Tongue & Thimble, use this link.

St. Paul's Stephen Ministers are trained laypeople who offer distinctively Christian, one-on-one care, support, and friendship to those experiencing life difficulties, both within our congregation and the community. These difficulties may arise from the death of a loved one; a personal or family illness; depression; aging; financial hardship; loss of a job; miscarriage; and birth of a child to name a few.

Would you like to be connected to a confidential Stephen Minister or learn more about Stephen Ministry? Contact Pastor Scott Anderson, John Foreman, or Kim Hoke.

Do you have a caring heart and a willingness to help hurting people? Would you like to become a Stephen Minister? St. Paul's provides training opportunities for those interested in becoming a Stephen Minister. If interested, contact John Foreman or Kim Hoke. To hear a bit more about Stephen Ministries, use this link.