Serve at Village

Poinsettia Ministry

Donate a Poinsettia

Honor a loved one and fund this ministry with a $15 donation towards a poinsettia plant. Your loved one(s)’s name(s) will be printed in the Christmas Eve bulletin (please include one name per donation). Donate online or send the name(s) with a check ($15/person) to Karen Reimer, Village Church, 6641 Mission Rd., Prairie Village, KS 66208 by Dec. 6. Important: After you donate a poinsettia, please submit your loved ones’ names here.

Help Deliver Poinsettias

An annual Village tradition is delivering the donated poinsettias to our homebound members. Sign up to deliver throughout the metro area—you choose where and how many to deliver on Sat., Dec. 7. Email Linda Alley to sign up (or call 913-671-2327).

Pastoral Care Committee

Pastoral Care & Counseling committee members work with the pastors to participate, maintain and propose new ways to provide care for our members and the community. Like most Village Church committees, the committee meets once a month (usually third Mondays), and asks volunteers to serve a 3-year term. Contact Linda if you think serving on the Pastoral Care Committee sounds like a way you would like to participate in the life of the church.

Helping Hands

Helping Hands volunteers assist with basic household tasks, yard work or provide meals to church members who may need help, such as the elderly, infirm, housebound, or those caring for new babies or aging relatives. All tasks are short-term; simply let our volunteer coordinator know what type of schedule or time commitment you are able to accommodate and we can help find a good fit.

Stephen Ministry

The Village Church Stephen Ministry program pairs people who are experiencing difficulties in their lives with specially trained members of the church who are equipped to listen, care for, and provide emotional and spiritual support. This one-to-one Christian care is confidential and available to church members and the wider community at no cost. 50 hours of required training is provided for Stephen Ministry certification. Applications to volunteer as a Stephen Minister are accepted year round.

Stephen Ministry is an international ministry based in St. Louis which has provided spiritual support to over 1.5 million people worldwide in over 13,000 congregations.

Memorial Service Host

Become a member of the Memorial Guild. Ushers will greet guests attending a memorial service, and reception volunteers host a reception following a memorial service. Read more about memorial services at Village.

Garden Maintenance

Village has five community garden areas that need seasonal upkeep. We need green thumbs! If you don’t have those, a set of hands will do.

• Community Garden (Food Pantry): The Village Community Garden offers opportunities for individuals of all ages to participate in service work. Every growing season from March through October, the garden needs volunteers to plant, water, weed and harvest crops. All produce harvested from the garden is donated to the Village Food Pantry located on the same grounds as the garden.
• Community Garden (Antioch Campus): This vegetable garden needs maintenance in the spring, summer and fall months.
• Memorial Garden (Mission Campus): Volunteers share their time and energy to keep the Memorial Garden at Mission Campus a beautiful and peaceful place. Tasks include light weeding, checking that floral arrangements are fresh, and maintaining garden policies.
• Pollinator Garden (Food Pantry): The majority of the plants in this garden are drought-tolerant, flowering plants that support our native bees and butterflies through their full life cycle by providing nectar, pollen and acting as host plants for their young. This garden is a certified monarch waystation with several species of milkweed. Please consider assisting with the maintenance of this important garden.
• Prayer Labyrinth (Food Pantry): The prayer labyrinth is a space to walk, reflect and pray. The garden around is designed to grow into a living screen around the labyrinth. The arborvitae anchors the garden with several native shrubs and flowers filling the space between them. Coral honeysuckle grows over the entrance arbor attracting hummingbirds and butterflies. Please consider assisting with the maintenance of this beautiful prayer labyrinth.

Flower Ministry

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Help deliver flowers to hospitalized and homebound members after Sunday worship. Arrange and deliver flowers to hospice patients on Mondays. There are also annual opportunities to deliver poinsettias at Advent and lilies at Easter.