For the past couple of years the Blindspot has worked alongside our Coffee Hour Coordinator, Danielle Vogt, to provide food, serve, and clean up after the 10:30 coffee hour. We volunteered for this because, as a group, we had a desire to meet and socialize with members of the wider parish, and have time and space to meet with visitors, but coffee hour had been slow to recover following the COVID-19 pandemic. While prior to the pandemic it was normal practice for multiple parishioners to sign up and volunteer to bring food and serve during both of our coffee hours, this was not the case once we all returned to in-person worship. Danielle readily accepted the call to serve and fill this gap for our parish and the Blindspot has enjoyed assisting her in bringing attendance back up. There are now, regularly, multiple tables worth of parishioners who stick around for a snack, a cup of coffee, and fellowship. We couldn't be happier about the results!
Now that we are five years beyond our return to in-person worship and coffee hour is once again a thriving ministry, we believe it is time for us to turn our time and resources to other needs in our parish. Danielle will, of course, still be running the show but Blindspot will no longer be making Coffee Hour one of our particular ministries to the wider parish, with our last Sunday serving being on April 26th. We ask, and encourage, all members of our parish to find the sign up sheet posted on the bulletin board in the Christian Ed building and sign up for a Sunday that you can contribute a baked good, cheese plate, or other treat to the table and don one of our St Greg's aprons and give Danielle a hand with serving and clean up duties. Please help keep up the Gregorian tradition of hospitality to visitors and long time members alike!