What’s the difference between serving in ministry and serving as a Sunday morning volunteer?
Generally speaking, we consider ministry as any activity that seeks to minister to the people of our city, nation and world in a way that seeks to bring the Gospel to bear first and primarily on individual hearts and secondly, cultural domains. Ministry can be both internal (amongst the people who call CityView their church) or external. In contrast, our incredible serve-team works in roles that are almost exclusively internal. Volunteers do the “family chores” needed to make our weekend services happen and keep the organizational element of CityView Church afloat. While we think it’s both important and a sacred act of worship for someone to run the sound board, pass out weekend updates and and make the coffee, we don’t believe these areas of service should be seen as equivalent with ministry to the poor.
