ALTAR SERVERS

THE ALTAR SERVERS assist the Clergy at services. Their function is to make sure that everything needed during services is in the right place at the right time, to carry out ceremonial during services, and to prepare and clear the Sanctuary before and after services.
The tradition and custom at St. Edmund's is to use much of the more formal ceremonial of the Church of England, so we therefore have a fairly large team of well-trained Servers.
There are few qualifications for becoming a Server: the lower age limit is somewhere around 8 to 10 years - depending on one's ability to stand still for minutes on end. There is no upper age limit, but one does need to be able to do things like kneeling , lifting and carrying.
There are also few formalities in joining - a short period of training, and a brief Office of Admittance before the Vicar, and that's all there is to it - the robes are provided.

For details contact Mike Godden 020 8868 7785