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Each adult community member is expected to volunteer for one of the below roles (SetUp and Greeter, Clean Up, and Kiddush Set Up and Clean Up) once per quarter. Opportunities to sign up will be shared regularly. Please reach out to any board member if you have any questions.

 

Set Up and Greeter

• Arrive: 30 min before the event begins

  • Shabbat morning: arrive by 9am

  • Erev Shabbat: arrive by 6pm

• Finish: Plan to stay through:

  • Shabbat morning: 11am (though we welcome you to stay longer!)

  • Erev Shabbat: 8pm (end of service)

• Your first job is to help with set up: Nehar Shalom Setting-Up Checklist

• Once people start to arrive, your job is to be a welcoming presence to all who walk through the doors

  • Hang out in the hallway or sit in the back of the big room so you can hear the main doors open

  • Notice everyone who enters, and do your best to greet them in a friendly way

  • Help people figure out where they are going, if they need a kippa, mask bathroom, book, page number, etc

  • Generally pay attention

  • Greeter Description: Greeter Description

• Know:

  • Cynthia will email you the week before to ensure you know the code to the lockbox, which allows you to enter the building

  • You are not responsible for setting up chairs! Shabbat and holiday services have a sexton who will set up the furniture (tables, chairs, reading table, etc) and A/V equipment

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Clean Up (after services)

• Arrive: We hope you will participate in the service/program

• Finish: Clean-up usually takes about 15 minutes, and can begin as soon as the service is done. We do not ask you to stay through the end of kiddush or to close-up the building.

  • Shabbat morning: clean-up is done between 12:15 and 12:30pm

  • Erev Shabbat: clean up is done around 8:15pm

• View the Checklist for cleaning up after services:  CHECKLIST

• You are not responsible for kiddush set up or clean up!

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• Clean Up (after programs with food) - see below - follow instructions for Kiddush
  clean up

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Kiddush Shopping - done earlier in the week before a Kiddush event

• A representative from CEC will email at least a week in advance to coordinate
  logistics for shopping, which can vary between services.
   

Kiddush Set-Up and Clean-Up

• Arrive: Please be sure you are at services by 11:30 as some kiddush set-up
  happens before the service is finished

• Finish: On a regular week, please plan to stay until 1pm. If there is a simcha or
  other special event, the CEC will let you know about timing.

• Know: There should be two people assigned for kiddush set up and clean up for
  each service.

• Instructions are here: HOSTING KIDDUSH