Serve

Awana is a fun, high-energy club where kids study and memorize Scripture, play team games, and enjoy special activities throughout the school year. Awana clubs celebrate the gospel of Christ, with a particular emphasis on Scripture memorization. Our Awana clubs for kids age 3 – 5th grade meet on Sunday evenings from 5:50–7:30 during the school year.

Our children’s choirs meet during the school year from 7:00–8:30 pm on the Wednesday night of Home Fellowship weeks, typically twice a month. We emphasize a mix of favorite hymns and choruses, along with fun Scripture songs for Bible memorization. The choirs perform twice a year in the main worship services.

The nursery is both a service to parents and the initial phase of our Children’s Ministry. As the children grow, we introduce them to foundational truths like “the Bible is true” and “God is good.” We also begin to train them to participate in more formal class structures, with times of singing and short biblical stories.

Special Needs

We minister to children with special needs during the 9:30 and 11:05 morning worship services and at other special events, providing a flexible, safe, and welcoming environment to share the love of God and the joy of His gospel.

Barnabas Builders

Barnabas Builders is a benevolence ministry for elder-approved projects to help Countrysiders. The projects typically involve home repair, vehicle repair, or different types of light construction. We desire to demonstrate God’s love and give encouragement by meeting both spiritual and physical needs. Volunteers with various skills and tools are needed.

Meals

Baskets of Blessings provides and delivers prepared meals on a short-term basis to Countrysiders whose immediate family members are ill, hospitalized, or home recovering from surgery.

Meals for Moms coordinates meals for Countryside families with new children.

Comfort Care provides a meal for Countrysiders who have a death in the immediate family.

Mothers of Prodigals Praying (MOPP)

Mothers, are you burdened for your adult children either not walking with Christ or not in Christ? Join with us once a month for prayer, encouragement, hope, and to uphold each other and our children. We meet for a confidential prayer time (not a social gathering) on the first Saturday of each month from 9:00–11:00 am in the Chapel Conference Room.

PrayerSHOP

PrayerSHOP is a women’s prayer group devoted to intercession for the CBC leadership. We meet in the North Building on the third Sunday of the month from 4:30–5:30 pm.

Shut-In Ministry

This ministry provides care and fellowship to those who have a desire to to worship with us but are unable to do so. We want to extend our love to those who are in need and to help them realize, through regular visits, that they are in our thoughts, prayers, and concerns.

Bookstore

The Countryside bookstore provides biblically sound resources to the congregation. The bookstore is open Sundays before and after services. Bookstore volunteers assist with checkout and inventory.

Campus Care

Volunteers serve every week to keep our campus clean and beautiful. On Friday mornings, volunteers prepare the Worship Center for our Sunday services. If you have a green thumb or a strong back, you can help maintain the landscaping around our campus.

Coffee Crew

The Coffee Crew makes sure there is hot coffee and condiments ready for our Sunday morning ministries. They show up early to brew coffee and then disperse it around campus to our various ministries and Sunday school classes.

The First Impressions Ministry exists to serve our visitors and church family before and after our Sunday morning worship services. We have teams of greeters, ushers, parking lot attendants, and those who serve with the Connections Center.

Home Fellowships are small groups that meet every month in homes across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. These groups provide a wonderful opportunity for the people of Countryside to study God's Word, pray with and for one another, and engage in biblical fellowship. You are welcome to join a group at any time during the year.

The AVL Ministry contributes to Countryside’s ministry of the gospel through live audio and video production of our worship services. This benefits our local congregation, and those who worship with us remotely via our live video stream. We have a wide array of service opportunities, and provide training to help volunteers develop and refine their skills.

Countryside’s adult choir and orchestra assist in leading worship during our morning worship services, special services, and concerts. It is our desire to provide weekly serving opportunities for those especially gifted musically.

Transcription Ministry

As a support ministry for The Word Unleashed®, which features Tom Pennington's pulpit ministry, this group of volunteers transcribes sermons and helps prepare the transcripts for posting online. The skills required for volunteering are attention to detail, typing, and basic language arts: grammar, spelling and punctuation.

IFC provides ESL classes at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, as well as citizenship, writing, and pronunciation classes. An elective Bible class is also offered. We meet in the Children’s Building on Thursday mornings during the school year.

We take an active role in carrying out Jesus’ Great Commission to take the gospel throughout the world. You can participate in a number of ways, including the prayer teams for our missionaries and short-term mission trips.