• After School (AS3ND) Ministry Team
Ministry Team Leader: Judy Lewis
This ministry team assists in funding and volunteering for a newly created after school ministry. The program begins each day with the arrival of school children in the Fellowship Hall after their regular school day. Volunteer instructors and tutors work with leadership and offer assistance and fun experiences for the youngsters involved. Activities include snacks, tutoring, mentoring, computer training, reading, crafts, Bible time, prayer, sports, and recreation.
• Archive/Historical Team
Ministry Team Leader: Debbie Webb
This team keeps the Church's history organized and in a protected area. They collect and preserve items of importance for anyone who has an intereste in the history of Cliff Temple and the men and women who served in the Church for more than a century. This team also maintains the Hall of Memories and catalogues the memorablia for generations to come.
• Baptism Ministry Team
Ministry Team Leader: Gordon Robinson
This group assists with those who are to be baptized. They see that the robes for the ordinance service are ready and size appropriate. Both men and women are required to appropriately serve the candidates.
• Carpenter's Sons Ministry Team
Ministry Team Leader: Danny Parham
This ministry makes minor home repairs for the elderly and or/poor who are unable to complete the work on their own. They gladly accept your offer of talent for home repairs and also will happily receive items usually used in such repairs. Those might include paint, lumber, nails, light bulbs, etc. This ministry can help improve the quality of life for one who not only will appreciate your help but your company as well. Names come to us from the Visting Nurses Association, Cliff Temple members, Care Center interviewers, and others. Please vist thecarpenterssonsministries.org for more information.
• Children's Choir & Preschool Choir Team
Contact Person: Michelle Collins (214-942-8601, ext. 305; michelle@clifftemple.org)
This group of volunteers works with leadership in teaching youngsters to sing and enjoy the experience of music.
• Extended Session Team
Contact persons: Judy Lewis (214-942-6319, ext 305; judy@clifftemple.org)
Members on this team serve on a rotating basis. You volunteer your time to help the young children who do not yet attend "Big Church" on Sunday morning. During the worship hour you will rock the babies, play games with the toddlers, and share stories with all the teachable little ones.
• Food Service Team
Contact person: Helen Coleman (214-330-0546)
The volunteers who serve Wednesday evening dinners, all church-wide luncheons/dinners, town hall meeting snacks, and some special events spend short periods of time doing simple and pleasant activities. There is usually a cashier needed to take the payment for dinners.
• Goslin Care Center Ministry Team
Contact person: Marsha Mills (214-942-6407)
An emergency food center is operated weekdays at the front of Cliff Temple. Volunteers from Cliff Temple, Baptist Benevolent Ministries of Oak Cliff, and Buckner are responsible for interviewing and distributing food to the needy in our area. Interviewers and receptionists are needed to meet the always growing needs.
• Hospital Visitation Team
Contact person: Susan Shanks (susan@clifftemple.org)
Members of this team are contacted when a church family member or close associate enters a hospital. Team members then go to the hospital to visit, if appropriate, or call by phone, if needed. After the contact is made, a report is made to contact person at Cliff Temple.
• Homebound/Nursing Home Visitation Team
Contact person: Walter Counts (214-942-8601, ext 308)
This team is comprised of people who enjoy visiting with homebound church members and those in the nursing homes. Responsibilities would include two visits each month, running errands for those who need help, and other general care needs. This team would also take the Lord' Supper to homebound members and those in the nursing home.
• Landscape and Properties Beautification Team
Contact Persons: Kay Frierson (972-291-7327)
This team serves to enhance the landscape and beauty of the Cliff Temple campus. We initiate changes or upgrades in the landscape areas.
• Lord's Supper Team
Ministry Team Leader: Dan Walston
This team is involved in making sure that the Lord's Supper table and supplies are ready for the first Sunday of each month. Our goal is to contribute to the worship experience through our service. We help to provide a time of meaningful reflection during worship.
• Missions Education Team (WMU)
Ministry Team Leader: Joann Haas
This team gives opportunities year-round to learn more about our missionaries and mission needs worldwide. From preschoolers to adults we provide special times for education about missions, prayer time for our missionaries and opportunities to participate in their support in many ways. Mission Friends, RAs and GAs, World Changers, and Today's Baptist Women are regularly scheduled activities. Specific times for members to learn more about our missionaries and how to support them in prayer and with their individual needs are during our Seasons of Prayer for Texas Missions, (September), Foreign Missions, (December), Home Missions (March) and Local Missions (June). Cliff Notes and Pray! are used for updated information on our missionaries and their ministries and urgent needs. Church-wide opportunities to participate in specific mission-oriented projects include: Bear the Burden (for abused children), Shoes for Orphan Souls, Snacks for Adamson High School Staff, Advent Festival and Devotional Guide. When missionaries are in our area on furlough, we attempt to connect with their schedules and have them to speak to our members.
• Offering Team
Contact person: Pat Harding (plharding@att.net)
The responsibility of this team is to help in collecting the offering as a part of the Sunday morning worship service.
• Prayer Ministry Team
Contact person: Sophia Rawlins (214-942-8601, ext 304; sophia@clifftemple.org)
This team meets twice a month in team members' homes to pray for the needs of Cliff Temple Baptist Church. They also pray in the prayer room every Sunday before church begins.
• Precept Bible Study
Ministry Team Leader: Esther Robinson
This Bible Study takes place every Tuesday morning in the Fellowship Hall. They go through different studies every few weeks.
• Senior Adult Transportation Team
Contact person: Marcus Martin (214-455-8336)
The duties of this team include picking up senior adults at the Wedgwood Apartments and Grace Presbyterian Village who cannot drive themselves to church. Occasionally, this would also mean picking up a visitor who calls during the week to request transportation. Drivers leave the church at 8:30AM on Sunday mornings for pick-ups. The route can take up to 45 minutes to complete. It also requires returning riders after worship services to their homes. There is always a desperate need for additional drivers.
• Staff Support (Administration) Team
Ministry Team Leaders: Susan Shanks or Sophia Rawlins
Members on this team would consist of helping with church-wide mailings, running off copies for Sunday school classes or other events, and general duties around the office.
• Temple Choir
Contact Person: Brad Jernberg (brad@clifftemple.org)
This excellent experience is open to all who desire to sing in the choir for Sunday morning worship services. Rehearsals are conducted every Wednesday evening at 7PM. Special programs, solos, and ensembles are also available.
• the Well Community
Ministry Team Leader: Joel Pulis, Community Pastor of the Well Community
The Well Community is a autonomous congregation, birthed out of Cliff Temple, that serves those with mental illness in the north Oak Cliff area. Since our start, in January 2002, we have developed a network of relationships among this population, a network that is continually expanding and bearing fruit.
Ministry Team opportunities:
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Saturday Night Life
Saturday Night Life is the Well Community's weekly time of worship, fellowship, and ministry. Teams of Community Friends (volunteers) are needed each week to help serve and interact with the Community Members. Consider volunteering once or committing to help quarterly or monthly. Teams from Sunday School classes are welcomed!
The commitment is on Saturday afternoons from 4:00pm until 8:00pm. The evening begins with a meal, followed by worship and then a time of games. We currently meet in the Mead Hall basement of Cliff Temple.
Contact Joel Pulis for more information.
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Prayer
Contact Joel Pulis for updated concerns.
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Casserole Club
Consider making a monthly casserole dish that could be frozen and used for a Saturday Night meal.
• Worship Rally Team (for children on Sunday mornings)
Contact person: Michelle Collins (214-942-8601, ext 305; michelle@clifftemple.org).
Before the children go to Sunday School, they begin each Sunday morning with a worship rally in the gym at 9:30 a.m. If you have a passion to help lead music for the children or to help with ideas for this rally, please contact us.
• Write Way Prison Ministry Team
Ministry Team Leader: Gordon Robinson
This team consists of individuals who write letters to prisoners and grade exams that prisoners take as correspondence. Those who are interested in being a part of this team are needed and welcome.
• Youth: The Cliff Ministry Team
Ministry Team Leader: Kenny Cheshier
This team is comprised of people who enjoy working with youth. Responsibilities include helping to plan activities, helping with discipleship needs for our youth, driving home students after 24/7 each Wednesday night, sponsors for youth trips, etc.