Preparing a Place for Grace
Clear steps, simple checklists, and prayers for those who prepare the Table.
Tip: arrive ~60 minutes before service; see Quick Start.
Upcoming Lord’s Supper Services
- Sunday Worship — June 8, 2025 • 10:30am (Traditional)
- Sunday Worship — August 3, 2025 • 10:30am (Traditional)
- Sunday Worship — October 5, 2025 • 10:30am (Traditional)
- Sunday Worship — November 16, 2025 • 10:30am (Traditional)
- Christmas Eve Worship — December 24, 2025 • 5:00pm (Intinction)
Only upcoming dates are shown.
Serving Guide
The committee prepares and places elements, keeps the table and sanctuary orderly, and ensures reverent cleanup. Supplies are labeled in the kitchen and closet.
- 60 min: Pray; wash hands; don food-safe gloves.
- 45–30 min: Gather bread, juice, trays/cups or chalice/paten; set chairs at table sides.
- 20–15 min: Prepare elements; place tablecloth per diagram.
- 5 min: Final wipe/arrangement; confirm gluten-free plate & small chalice.
Terms: paten, chalice, intinction.
Select Mode of Service
- Cut bread ~½” cubes; prepare gluten-free plate separately.
- Fill cups; keep trays clean and dry.
- Place trays and bread per diagram; minister/deacons will serve.
- Lay slices flat on the paten.
- Fill chalice about ⅔ full.
- Provide separate gluten-free cracker and small chalice.
- Collect used cups from pews into containers; dispose of disposables.
- Wipe wooden trays lightly; wash/dry chalices, patens; return to padded cases.
- Wash & fold tablecloth; return to hallway closet.
- Leftover bread/juice may be taken home or discarded reverently.
Supplies are in the kitchen and closet; gloves, trays, cloths are labeled.
- Weather cancelations are usually not rescheduled; outdoor/unique setups coordinated by staff.
- Chairperson coordinates schedules/reminders; members find subs when needed.
- Questions: contact the pastor.
Prayer Cards for Preparers
We Ready What Your Love Will Bless
We set this table not for show,
But that your grace, O Christ, may flow.
We wipe and wash, we fold and place,
We make this room a home of grace.
Our Labor Is Communion Too
Not only bread and cup we bring,
But hands that serve and hearts that sing.
We come with quiet, sacred care,
That all may meet your presence there.
We Make a Space for Grace to Fall
We sweep, we slice, we sort with care,
That all may know your welcome there.
This is our joy, our reverent call:
To make a space for grace to fall.
We Thank You for the Task We Bear
We thank you, God, for call and chore,
For moments spent behind the door.
Unseen, we serve—but not unknown—
You meet your people where we’ve sown.
We Are the Quiet Hands of Praise
We labor not for gain but grace,
That all may find a sacred place.
Our work is prayer, our task is praise,
A holy gift for holy days.
Paten
A flat plate used to hold the bread during communion.
Chalice
A cup used to hold the juice/wine for serving.
Intinction
A method of communion where bread is dipped into the cup.