Discover the best way to use your gifts
At Grace Bible Church, we believe that we cannot fully mature as believers in Christ if we are not using our Spiritual Gifts to serve each other We are all of equal importance to the Body of believers, and all necessary.
If you do not know what your Spiritual Gifts are, please see the worksheet, and fill-out form below. We believe it is vital to serve where our gifts are best used in order to ensure being Spirit-led, and to avoid burnout.
Spiritual Gifts Contact Form
Spiritual Gifts definitions
Speaking Gifts
Preaching/Prophecy – The God-given ability to set before people the Word and wisdom of God persuasively through personality as a herald.
Exhortation – The God-given ability to draw alongside someone in order to comfort, to encourage, to rebuke, and to lead into insight toward action.
Teaching – The God-given ability to lay down in systematic order the complete ladder of a doctrine, and to apply it incisively and diligently to live.
Words of Wisdom – The God-given ability to locate formerly unknown principles, as well as to combine known principles of God’s Word, and to communicate them to fresh situations.
Words of Knowledge – The God-given ability to arrange the facts of Scripture, to categorize these into principles, and to communicate them to repeated or familiar situation.
Gifts needed for these ministries:
Compass: The purpose of this ministry is to help college-aged young adults (20s and 30s), both single and with families, navigate all aspects of life in an increasingly disorienting world, using God’s word as our compass.
Discipleship: Discipleship can happen organically when two believers feel the prompting of the Holy Spirit to meet together to grow in grace. However, it can be hard to get connected in a large church. Our Discipleship team matches mature believers with younger believers to help both grow together in Christ.
First Contact: Greet & welcome guests at the Welcome Center and make sure they get a gift bag. Hand out bulletins at the doors of the auditorium, and help folks find open seats. Your job is helping people feel at home at Grace Bible
Grace Kids Children’s Church: Our energetic elementary-aged kids, 3 years to 2nd grade, are dismissed after corporate worship for age-appropriate activities and lessons during the sermon.
Grace Kids Nursery: Sit with our church family’s adorable babies and influence them for the Kingdom, while giving their parents a chance to focus on the Sunday morning message, or study in Sunday School. Volunteers cover only one of these a Sunday, so you don’t miss everything when you’re serving, and we have a good rotation of volunteers.
International Missions: Our annual short-term missions trips to the Dominican Republic and Ukraine work in partnership with locally-run organizations and churches with the common goal of serving their communities together in Christ. Past trips have included construction projects, medical missions, and humanitarian intervention, all while spreading the gospel.
Kids4Truth: During the school year, Kids for Truth is our Wednesday night kids’ program, and it’s a big deal at Grace Bible! We get a lot of kids—ages 3 to high school—from the community, including unchurched kids. We need teachers and teachers’ assistants.
LINK Youth Group: Help our 6th-12th graders experience life changing moments while worshipping together and creating relationships with them
LINK Youth Praise Band: Whether you’re in middle or high school, or an adult willing to help play or sing on a Sunday night, we can use your talents on the LINK praise and worship team.
Men’s Ministry: Our Men’s Ministry is a team of men that serve the men of Grace Bible, as well as the church family at large, and even the surrounding community. Volunteers put together regular men’s book and Bible studies, facilitate the monthly men’s breakfast, orchestrate service projects within the church, and also plan and organize several big events each year, such as our Wild Game Feed, and the Mother-Daughter banquet for Mother’s Day
Praise and Worship Team: Our Praise and Worship Team uses music to point the congregation to the Truth, and give them a chance to respond to that Truth. If you are a musician or vocalist who would like information on how to audition for the team, please let us know. We are always growing and learning, and we want you on board!
Prayer Team: Our Prayer team helps support our weekend services by praying with those who need it after services. Members of this team will also gather at the church on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month, at 1:00 PM, to pray over requests in the church
Sunday School: Do you have the gift of teaching? How about administration and organization? Do you love kids? We need volunteers to teach children’s Sunday school classes and volunteers to assist the teachers
Visiting Team: The Grace Bible Church Visiting Team is responsible for regularly and consistently ministering to church members who are unable to attend church in person, and are at risk of being overlooked or underserved by their Church family. Just a couple half-hour visits a month to encourage and pray with someone can make their whole week!
Women’s Ministry: The Women’s Ministry exists to serve the women of Grace Bible through coordinating Book and Bible studies, the Women’s Coffee Fellowship, and the Titus 2 Panel.
Serving Gifts
Faith – The God-given ability to see through mountainous problems to the Ultimate Resource, with the vision that it is timely to rely absolutely on both God’s ability and willingness to perform in that particular matter
Giving – The God-given ability to make and to give things most liberally and beyond all human expectation.
Mercy – The God-given ability to be sensitive or empathetic to people who are in affliction or misery, and to lift internal burdens with cheerfulness.
Helps – The God-given ability to see tasks and to them for or with someone in order to lift external burdens
Leading/Administration – The God-given executive ability to lead people with care, while collecting data, setting policy, and developing plans which will guide a course of action with skill and wisdom
Discerning of Spirits – The God-given judicial ability to stand over people in order to detect genuine or non-genuine motives by distinguishing the spirit-source behind any person’s speech or act.
Gifts needed for these ministries:
Coffee Hospitality: Help create a welcoming and comfortable environment for people through coffee! Coffee team volunteers will be brewing coffee, restocking supplies, and welcoming people.
First Contact: Greet & welcome guests at the Welcome Center and make sure they get a gift bag. Hand out bulletins at the doors of the auditorium, and help folks find open seats. Your job is helping people feel at home at Grace Bible
Grace Kids Children’s Church: Our energetic elementary-aged kids, 3 years to 2nd grade, are dismissed after corporate worship for age-appropriate activities and lessons during the sermon.
Grace Kids Nursery: Sit with our church family’s adorable babies and influence them for the Kingdom, while giving their parents a chance to focus on the Sunday morning message, or study in Sunday School. Volunteers cover only one of these a Sunday, so you don’t miss everything when you’re serving, and we have a good rotation of volunteers.
International Missions: Our annual short-term missions trips to the Dominican Republic and Ukraine work in partnership with locally-run organizations and churches with the common goal of serving their communities together in Christ. Past trips have included construction projects, medical missions, and humanitarian intervention, all while spreading the gospel.
Kids for Truth: During the school year, Kids for Truth is our Wednesday night kids’ program, and it’s a big deal at Grace Bible! We get a lot of kids—ages 3 to high school—from the community, including unchurched kids. We need volunteers for all the rolls: check-in, safety and security, teachers, teacher helpers, and kid wranglers!
LINK Youth Group: Help our 6th-12th graders experience life changing moments while worshipping together and creating relationships with them
Meals Ministry: The Meals Ministry is a two-fold compassion ministry. Our in-church Kitchen Team coordinates volunteers to provide food for special meals in the church—such as the Harvest Dinner, potlucks, funerals, and other events—then handles the preparation, serving, and clean-up. The Meals Delivery Team cooks and delivers home-cooked meals to church members in need of help and support after the birth of a baby, a death in the family, a surgery, an injury, an illness, et cetera.
Men’s Ministry: Our Men’s Ministry is a team of men that serve the men of Grace Bible, as well as the church family at large, and even the surrounding community. Volunteers put together regular men’s book and Bible studies, facilitate the monthly men’s breakfast, orchestrate service projects within the church, and also plan and organize several big events each year, such as our Wild Game Feed, and the Mother-Daughter banquet for Mother’s Day
Parking and Valet Ministry: Park vehicles for elderly or disabled attendees so they can get out at the front doors, under the overhang. Keep walkways salted during the winter months. Greet visitors who park in the visitor spots and direct them to the Welcome Center.
Prayer Team: Our Prayer team helps support our weekend services by praying with those who need it after services. Members of this team will also gather at the church on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month, at 1:00 PM, to pray over requests in the church
Safety and Security Team: Our goal is to maintain a safe, secure and peaceful place for our church family and guests
Set-Up/Tear-Down Team: This team does the hidden, but critical work of preparing the building for our worship experience, setting up for special events, restoring the building to it’s original state after, stacking and storing chairs between services, and other needs as they arise
Sunday School: Not everyone in the Sunday School ministry has to teach. Helpers in class are always need, and there are a lot of behind-the-scenes things that need to happen to make Sunday School a success.
Tech Team: The Weekend Tech Team serves behind the scenes running everything from sound to cameras to the lyrics on the screen during our weekend worship services. If you are gifted in or have an interest in the tech world, consider serving with us.
Transport Ministry: Do you have a CDL with minimum of P classification? We need drivers and ride-along assistants to bring people to Grace Bible who cannot drive themselves.
Visiting Team: The Grace Bible Church Visiting Team is responsible for regularly and consistently ministering to church members who are unable to attend church in person, and are at risk of being overlooked or underserved by their Church family. Just a couple half-hour visits a month to encourage and pray with someone can make their whole week!