Hospitality
Meet, Greet, and Seat.
The usher does something that everyone else in the community does too—welcoming and offering hospitality. It is the usher’s ministry to greet people warmly, to introduce strangers, to help people sit together, to pass out hymnals, song sheets, to care for any needs (if someone gets sick, or other emergencies), to take up the collection, to help with good order at communion and to distribute bulletins and such in the course of saying goodbye to everyone or to direct people to the parish hall or school. If you have a gift for hospitality, you would make a good usher.
Contact: Penny Arslanian at 314-965-3985.
Reader of the Word
The reader is the storyteller of the community, telling the story that identifies us and give meaning to our lives. This story ‘tells us’ much more than we tell it. The special gifts and skill of the reader have to do with drawing everyone into the scriptures.
If you are interested in sharing your talents in this ministry, contact: Penny Arslanian at 314-965-3985.
Sacristans and Artists
These ministers’ work and presence are apparent in the in the worship space and in the things that are seen and touched within the liturgy. Those who clean and polish, as much as those who create and decorate, come from the assembly to care for a specific need: to fashion a place that helps people pray together. Their goal is to create an environment that is hospitable, welcoming, clean, human; an environment that is beautiful, that in itself points beyond to the awe and wonder that fosters our prayer.
If you are interested in sharing your talents with this ministry, contact: Penny Arslanian at 314-965-3985.