Usher Volunteer Description
Thank you so much for volunteering at Cross of Christ! We could not be a successful, influential, loving congregation without your commitment and involvement.
As an usher you are a representative for Cross of Christ Lutheran Church during our worship services. Please read through the following responsibilities:
- Please be available, helpful, and welcoming.
- Please arrive 15 minutes before the worship service begins
- Please hand out bulletins
- Bulletins are located on the top of the bookshelf in the narthex.
- Make sure you are handing out the correct bulletin for the service you are volunteering at.
- If you run out of bulletins please tell one of the pastors.
- Make sure weekly announcements are in bulletins
- Please direct people to any needed places or items
- Seating
- Restrooms
- Busy Bags for children
- Fellowship
- Nursery
- Etc.
- Please sit in the narthex or right inside the sanctuary in order to assist the congregation.
- Please count all who are present, including children and those leading worship.
- Log on the sheet located on the bookshelf
- At the 9:00 service, please count the number of children and adults at Children’s Church.
- Tell the leaders of Children’s Church when the sermon is over for the children to return to church.
- Please direct the collection of offering (after the Sharing of Peace)
- One usher please bring the offering, bread, and wine forward as the congregation sings the offertory hymn.
- Please direct Communion procession.
- At the singing of “Lamb of God” or as the Praise Team communes, please go forward on each side of the aisle (center aisle at 11:15) to usher the congregation forward to receive Communion.
- Ushers are served last.
- Please tell the pastor(s) if someone needs Communion brought to their seat.
- Please straighten up the sanctuary after the worship service.
- Making sure that the attendance pads are available in each row
- Removing unclaimed bulletins
- Recycling any service bulletins in the bin by the copier in the church office.
- At the 11:15 service, please remove the signed attendance sheets from each pad and set them on the secretary’s desk in the church office.
- Please look carefully for all attendance pads, sometimes they are “hidden” in many different locations.
Thanks for your ministry!