Fellowship

Mission and Function:
Our mission is to provide many fellowship opportunities that strengthen the spiritual connection between members and friends at St. Andrews; therefore, “let’s have fun, play, laugh!”

To do this:

  • The Fellowship Committee meets to plan monthly events whereby members of the church can meet for social activities
  • Committee members come up with the ideas or use ideas given to them by others; members sometimes “chair” an event or they recruit someone to do so.
  • The Committee supports other committees within the church with planning for social events.
  • The Committee oversees Sunday morning Fellowship Coffee Hour with volunteers from the entire church body taking turns hosting.

We heartily endorse the following:

“The church that plays together, stays together!”and “If we feed them, they will come.”

Some of our activities over the past several years have included:

  • LOTS of potluck dinners
  • Special meals such as
  • Valentine’s Day Pancake Brunch with the men cooking and serving
  • Stone Soup
  • Pig Roasts
  • Suppers for Six/Eight
  • Game nights—for families and/or for adults only
  • Attending a play and going out afterwards for dessert
  • An annual kayak/canoe trip on the Lower Platte River with picnic
  • Pontoon Boat parties
  • Fall color tours with special meals enroute
  • Attending a Beach Bums game—the Traverse City professional baseball club
  • Brunch at some of our great restaurants following worship
  • A Coffee House—sharing poems, readings, and songs with dessert and coffee
  • A Road Rally

Some Planned Events from a year past…

January – Charter Day Potluck

February – Valentine’s Potluck with special presentation from the Meads, just back from Niger

March – Soup Luncheon after worship

April – Easter Morning Breakfast before worship

May – Tea  sponsored by Presbyterian Women

June and August – Refreshments and fellowship following special “Concerts on the Hill,”  Fundraisers for the Missions Program

August – Annual Kayak/Canoe Outing on the Platte River with picnic

Summer – Beach Bums game, Surprise Suppers Six/Eight

Fall –   Game nights, Hayride and square dance

Winter –Christmas Gathering with appetizers and desserts and songs