Are you
F.A.M.O.U.S ?
( Father
And/or Mother Of an Untidy
Server)
If you suspect that you may be F.A.M.O.U.S., or even
if you are not, we need your help, or suggestions on
how to tidy up some loose ends in the Altar Server
Ministry. Please offer your support so your child’s
ministry may become the best that it can be!
Please let us know which
support activity you are willing to assist with, or just
do the first one quietly and surprise the church
Sacristans, the Choir members, the Ushers, the Priests
and everyone else who tells us weekly: “Do something
about the Altar Server Albs on the floor in the Vestry!”
After the
Mass your youth serves, check the Vestry,
the room in the church basement where the Albs are hung,
to make sure that
your child’s
1.
Alb is on a
hanger,
rather than the floor and
2.
The Albs are
organized by size
so that the next servers don’t have to hurriedly try on
and re-hang several to find their size. Some Albs and
their occupants have been as wrinkled as raisins!
3.
If an Alb
your child routinely wears needs cleaning or repair,
remove it from the rack
take it home and wash it (warm water, wrinkle free
drying) stitch it, and/or replace the Velcro strips.
4.
Do you know
of an easier hanger to use for hanging up an Alb?
Albs are even hard for an adult to hang on the current
hangers (Suggestions, please! Experimental hangers are
welcome).
The
Recognition Team develops the needed
resources, plans, promotes and implements an Annual
Altar Server Recognition Event. For the past two
years the team organized a survey of the servers, the
majority of whom selected to have a pizza party at the
Flushing Country Club Pool in late summer.
Clerical
help, three times per year, to fold, stuff, and seal the
schedules and lists for mailing.
This could be a family or scout service activity. Would
you willingly be on a telephone list of people to stuff
and seal (less than 65) envelopes?
Training And
Guidance (TAG) Team parent,
help orient and train new Altar Servers. We currently
train servers on the 4th Saturday each
month; exceptions occur in May, August, November and
December when we train on the 3rd Saturday.
The pastor and pastoral associate review & approve the
training manual; we train by the book & “role” coach!
Contact an Altar Server
Trainer or the Parish Office for more information !
Our office phone number is
810-659-2501