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Generally,
we have identified three kinds of teams:
Care
Teams
Care
Teams care for one or more persons within the congregation
and community who are chronically ill, disabled, elderly,
or with other needs. The team provides practical, emotional,
and spiritual support, generally doing what friends do for
and with friends. This caring may include transportation to
the doctor, household chores, yard work, errands, shopping,
minor home repairs, meals, social outings, cards, calls, and
visits, as well as respite for caregivers.
Outreach
Teams
Outreach
Teams focus on an area of ministry beyond the immediate community,
to persons who are poor, homeless, in prison, or in need of
food, clothing, tutoring, etc. Outreach teams may also relate
to a mission agency or church in the city-Urban Ministry,
the Church of the Reconciler, First Light Shelter for Homeless
Women, Greater Birmingham Ministries, Magic City Harvest,
and others. For example, the Cherish the Children Teams work
with the Family Clinic at Children's Hospital to provide baskets
of needed items for newborns; the Rheba Tuggle Team transports
children to visit their mothers in Julia Tutwiler Prison;
the Matthew 25:35 Team to deliver food to persons in poverty;
etc.
Ministry
Teams
Ministry
Teams seek to support and strengthen an area of the congregation's
life and work, with a special focus on helping others to be
involved. For example, the Chris Morgan College-Age Team plans
the church's ministry with college students; the Worship Strategy
Team seeks to stay sensitive to the worship needs of the congregation;
etc.
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