How to Host a Coffee Hour

  • Purchase baked goods, fruit, cheese, crackers, half and half, and juice. (The choice is yours; everything is optional.)
  • Arrive ½ hour before service time.
  • Place paper table cloth on tables.*
  • Warm up coffee maker and put tea kettles on.*
  • Put tea bags in two carafes (three bags per carafe.)
  • Put food on plates or in baskets and cover with plastic wrap or napkins.
  • Pour half and half in creamers, cover with plastic wrap, and put in fridge.
  • Put sugar, Sweet and Low, coffee and juice cups, stirrers, and napkins on the tables.*
  • Make coffee and turn off tea kettles
  • Attend the service and come down to the parish hall after receiving communion.
  • Reheat water in kettles.
  • Pour hot water in carafes with the tea bags.
  • Put coffee dispenser, food, juice, and half and half on tables.

  • Make a second pot of coffee and leave it on the warmer for the second service.
    Tidy up but please leave leftover food for the next service.


  • After the second coffee hour, clean up will be taken care of by our sexton, Carlos Marquina.

* Carlos may take care of some of these tasks before you arrive.

+ Lisa Harkins can answer questions or help you host.


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Page updated February 16, 2008