Hello Friends -

As many of you know, Reston Bible Church will be having its annual church picnic two Sundays from now on June 14th after the 11:00 service at Lake Fairfax Park (off Baron Cameron).  This event is being coordinated by the RBC Men’s Ministry and I have been talking with Kevin Marshall about ways that we can help.

For those of you who helped with the Spiritual Emphasis weekend, this event will be similar in the number of helpers and jobs needed.  Kevin listed some ways that we can help:

  • Make signs for cars (to know where to turn, etc )
  • Welcome table (hand out name tags, help wih gen info)
  • Parking team to direct cars
  • One person to run to Costco with the cook
  • Move tables from church to picnic site (one person to help Kevin)
  • Food table team (Organize food on tables as food arrivesa and keep people from eating the food prior to start time
  • Beverage team (Keep the coolers full of lemonade, tea, etc)
  • Clean-up crew (basic cleanup, labeling leftover re-usable items, wash out coolers, etc)
  • Tear-down crew (stronger guys who can help with tear-down of the tent, move picnic tables back to original locations, etc)

Kevin did note that this is not an exhaustive list, so I am sure that there is more that we can help with!  :-)   Kevin would like to organize volunteers into teams with team leaders as there will be a lot that he will be responsible for on the day of the picnic and he would like to delegate some of the responsibility for specific areas.  I imagine that being a team leader will mean that you will need to know where things go/what needs to be done (Kevin, Angela, or I will make sure you have all the information you need) and be able to communicate that to the rest of the team.

If you are interested in volunteering, please let me know:  A)  What team would like you to help with (Welcome, Parking, Food, Beverage, Clean-up, Tear-down) and B) Are you willing to be the team leader for that team?  There’s a couple other tasks that don’t fit into teams (helping Kevin move tables, going to Costco, etc.) so if you’d like to do that instead of/in addition to being on a team, let me know.

Given how much work there is to do, I think there’s something for everyone to do – we could easily fill 20 volunteers positions.  If we have enough people, we will organize into shifts so that everyone only has to work a portion of the picnic.  So if you plan on coming, volunteer to help out for a little bit!  Please let me know by this Saturday how you would like to help!

Thanks so much!!

Renae