The Usher's Book: Creating a Welcoming and Safe Environment for Worship

The Usher’s Book: Creating a Welcoming and Safe Environment for Worship, by John P. Gilbert, is a concise guide to the responsibilities of the church usher, intended for use by church staff or volunteers to train new ushers and to help experienced ushers learn new ways to create a welcoming and safe environment for the congregation and visitors.

The text covers ushers' responsibilities related to special worship services such as communion, weddings, and funerals, safety issues and the importance of the ushers' access to and knowledge of emergency equipment in the sanctuary, how ushers should assist persons with disabilities, how ushers serve as worship styles change, and a special section on Greeters and how they can work with ushers to create a welcoming atmosphere for visitors and new members. Includes a brief glossary of worship terms and a quick reference chart/checklist.
 

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Did you know. . .

Among the duties of the Church usher are greeting and seating people entering the service, collecting the offering, keeping order in the sanctuary, reporting or contacting persons needed for any emergency situation. Church ushers also generally distritube service bulletins, as well as performing other tasks. The role of the usher in church is a volunteer position.

Church ushers are missionaries for the church—they perpetuate the spirit throughout the congregation.

Examples of “ushers” from the Bible:

He [God] ushered in day and light (Gen. 1:3-4). God ushered man into the Garden of eden (Gen. 2:15).

Abraham ushered Faithfulness into the world (Gen. 22). Moses ushered the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt into the promise land.

The Star of Bethlehem ushered the wise men of the East to the place where Christ was born. John the Baptist prepared the way. He was the voice crying in the wilderness. (John 1:6-13).