The Academy of the Lay Ministry offers opportunity for service in several categories: volunteer group counselors, grief therapists,
coffeehouse workers, teachers of parent - study groups, psychodramatists, pastor's assistants.
About twenty - five volunteers serve under their direction as conversationalists with lonely people who come to the
coffeehouse for fellowship, or as
workers to man the food counter, which serves coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and pastries at a nominal cost.