The Ushering Team’s main goal, as typically the first folks that people see as they enter the church for a service, is to convey a welcoming congregation and to be a resource for those familiar and not familiar with our services and rituals.
I invite you to pause for a moment and examine how you practice the presence of God. The tendency that I hear, see and experience is that people, (myself included), look for God “somewhere out there.” Brother Lawrence reminds us that God is nearer than we might think. Psalm 139 expresses this reality well when the psalmist asks ..