Purpose:

• · Welcome members and visitors as they enter the nave for worship, and hand each person a worship bulletin, or a children’s bulletin for the younger worshippers.
• Be alert for visitors and cheerfully provide information about the location of rest rooms, the nursery, times of services, etc.
• Recognize visitors during the announcements prior to the service by distributing a gift mug to each visitor.
• Collect offerings by passing the offering plates along the pews.
• Carry the monetary and food offerings to the altar.
• Assist during communion by ushering worshippers to the communion rail.
• “Clean up” the pews following the service and collect the pew pad sheets for the evangelism committee.

Skills, interests desired: Any baptized member—male or female, young or old—who enjoys meeting and greeting people with a smile. Some knowledge of the church building, service times, etc. is useful.

Time required: Ushers should be in place 15 minutes before the worship service is scheduled to begin, and should plan to stay after the service until the pews are cleared of papers and the hymn books and pew pads are in place. Ushers can choose to serve at the Saturday 5:30 p.m. liturgy, or the 8:00 a.m. or 10:45 a.m. liturgies on Sunday. Ushers are also needed for special services during Advent, Lent, Holy Week and Easter.
Ushers are assigned in “teams” and serve once every four to six weeks.

Training: Training takes place mostly on the job while working with other ushers.

Contact: David Keith, 724-349-4583 or Richard Smith, 724-349-7555