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Church
Ministries |
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Click on the title below to learn more about our church ministries and
service groups |
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Acolytes |
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These young people support the ministers in
conducting the worship service by lighting and extinguishing altar candles, carrying the
cross during processions and assisting the Communion teams.
Contact: Kerry Drake
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Crossbearers |
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These are teams of members who visit
the people who visit Immanuel. They provide our visitors with information about our
congregation and make sure that they know that they are welcome to come back
and join us in worship.
Contact: Bill & Dona Trlak
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ECHO
(Emergency Care Help Organization) |
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Started as a
way to provide food and clothing to those in need of short-term assistance
in the Brandon area, ECHO's primary means of support comes from the
generosity of local civic organizations, churches, businesses, and citizens
-- it gets no funding from any local, state, or federal agency.
Would you like
to help? ECHO needs non-perishable food items (spaghetti sauce, dried
beans, peanut butter, flour, etc.) Diapers (sizes 4 and 5) are also
needed.
Place your
items in the wooden box in the breezeway labeled "Food Pantry" and they will
be delivered to ECHO.
Read more >>
Contact: Joan Chubbs or Flo
Finke
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MiSTI |
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Military Support Team Immanuel (MiSTI)
is a ministry approved by Immanuel's Board of Elders to provide support
to our congregation members associated with the
military in any way.
MiSTI assistance may include help during military moves ("PCS" or
"Permanent Change of Station"), promotions, retirements, casualty
assistance, military ceremonies, funerals, and veterans affairs. MiSTI plans
to focus on Immanuel's retired, veteran, and active duty families, as well
as our LCMS chaplains and the MacDill AFB military community in the Brandon
area.
Please contact us if you or one of your family is a veteran,
retired military, or serving on active duty
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or if you are interested in being a part of MiSTI.
Email The MiSTI Coordinator thru the Church
Office.
Click here to review the Missouri Synod's web page dedicated to
serving our Armed Forces.
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Ladies' Guild |
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This is the organization for women in
the congregation. Immanuel’s Ladies’ Guild includes the local activities of the
Lutheran Women’s Missionary League (LWML) as well as several other types of
activities.
Contact: Edith Mattson & Ginger Stephens
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SHARE (Self Help And Resource
Exchange) |
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SHARE is a cooperative effort with other area
congregations providing quality food through the exchange of volunteer
hours.
This is a non-profit community program providing quality
food through the exchange of volunteer hours.
$35 worth of food is exchanged for $14 plus volunteer service.
Immanuel has been a host site for this Outreach Ministry established by
the Tampa United Methodist Center. Immanuel’s schedule for Share
distribution is the 4th Saturday of every month.
Anyone who volunteers two or more hours a month at the church is
eligible-ushers, trustees, elders, Sunday School teachers, greeters,
counters, school volunteers, youth workers, etc., as well as anyone
volunteering outside the church.
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Contact: Rita Fitzsimmons
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Church Workdays |
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Workday activities range from cleaning to
construction, repairs to restoration. Workdays are a great way of keeping
Immanuel’s facilities in good repair while getting to know others in the
church.
Contact: Church Office
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Greeters |
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Greeters welcome visitors to
Immanuel prior to our three worship services and also provide
needed information and assistance.
Contact: Jackie Anton
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Ushers |
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The usher teams serve during
worship services in various ways, including helping worshippers with seating, facilitating
the collection of the offering, providing an orderly system for Communion distribution and
other such duties.
Click for the 2008 Usher team assignments
(Adobe pdf)
Contact: Kerry Drake
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Benjamin Team (Board for Youth
& Family Ministry) |
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The Benjamin Team (Board for Youth & Family
Ministry) includes both youth and adults who share a vision for a long-term
faithful Youth & Family Ministry. This team works together with the
leadership teams for each arena of Youth & Family Ministry (senior youth,
middle school youth, pre-teen youth, and families) to enable a faithful
ministry that brings the Word into each family’s home, builds a strong
community of youth in response to the Word, and equips youth and adults to
share the love, joy and peace of Jesus in the community and world.
Contact: Pastor Brammeier
Email the Benjamin Team Leader thru Pastor
Brammeier
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Vacation Bible School |
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Each summer, Immanuel conducts
a Vacation Bible School (VBS) for our children and the children of our community. Planning
and preparation for the actual conduct of the VBS takes several months. As a result, there
are many opportunities to serve before, during, and after the week of the VBS.
Contact: Church Office
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