{"id":277,"date":"2011-06-30T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T19:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/?p=277"},"modified":"2013-03-07T15:02:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:02:18","slug":"building-a-flower-guild-in-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Building a Flower Guild in Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/flowerguild.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-278\" title=\"flowerguild\" src=\"http:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/flowerguild-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/flowerguild-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/flowerguild.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As summer ends, it is a good time to collect dry material in the fields for use as fillers during the fall and winter.  This is also a good time to recruit new members.<\/p>\n<p>The flower guilds have a really joyful, beautiful service to offer in helping set the table to welcome the guests.  It is a constantly changing and learning experience and the guilds I have been a member of have all been very helpful and cooperative to each other. Everyone comes at Christmas and Easter to do the huge festival arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>If your church does not do any of their own flower arranging, I would suggest you encourage a few people to try it.  I have experienced a huge saving in money for altar flowers and great interest from the congregation.  I currently have four teams and they all arrange a little differently.  When someone must miss a turn, others are anxious to fill in.  Actually, I assign them the space they are to work in and rarely the type flowers, and they do what they wish.<\/p>\n<p>We use one retail\/wholesaler (good prices) and charge with a price limit.  This would not work in a large church with multiple arrangements or for big holidays. Then one person should plan, order and supervise the division of the flowers.  For either big holidays or multiple arrangements I use buckets with signs on them so the team will know which area the flowers are for.<\/p>\n<p>It is a very rewarding service.  If all goes wrong, just take the arrangement apart, say a prayer and start over again.  You will leave happy and at peace, no matter how you arrived.<\/p>\n<p>by Clara Fowler<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As summer ends, it is a good time to collect dry material in the fields for use as fillers during the fall and winter. This is also a good time to recruit new members [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,11,9],"tags":[24,72,62,99,53,44],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","category-how-to","category-running-ag","category-your-ag","tag-altar-service","tag-christmas","tag-easter","tag-flowers-2","tag-ministry-2","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}