Providing Head Usher Responsibilities is essential to your entire usher team because a church usher team is an integral part of your next weekend gathering or service. Therefore, providing clarity and adequate training, specifically for the head ushers, is even more critical.
To do a great job, team members need clear instructions.
Being an usher is not for everyone. Every person receives unique gifts. Therefore, not everyone can play guitar on the worship team, work in children’s ministry, or lead a small group.
A person’s God-given, specific gifting and interests should determine where and how they use them.
Below are four essential qualities to identify when choosing an usher team leader.
HEAD USHER RESPONSIBILITIES CHECKLIST
QUALITIES OF A GOOD HEAD USHER
- A heart for people.
- Willing to lead with a servant’s heart.
- Commitment to the vision of the church.
- Supportive of the leadership of this church.
A Lead Usher provides leadership and coordination for the church usher team. In essence, their goal is to ensure a smooth and efficient operation of all related church usher duties (seating, offering, etc.).
ADDITIONAL HEAD USHER RESPONSIBILITIES
- Team building and leadership development
- Ongoing training of usher team
- Organize meetings as needed.
- Ezoic
- Provide current and rapid communication.
- Encourage your usher team.
- Help maintain quality and standards for all usher functions.
- Guide particular circumstances as they arise.
- Quick, solution-oriented approaches to challenges and difficulties that arise during service.
- Assurance that the process for offering collection is up to church leadership standards.
- Ensure that the organization and communication of the monthly service schedule are taking place.
- Be a shepherd to those on your team.
- Communication with the appropriate church staff “need to know” information.
- Be a model of excellence in your attitude and attire.
What Are the Duties of a Head Usher in a Church?
Ushers are an important part of a church organization. They perform tasks that help services flow at a certain pace, and help maintain order and safety within the congregation. However, the head usher's job description has many more responsibilities, and can be seen as being more technical.
Position Clarification
Though the head usher can perform some of the duties of a regular usher, the head usher's position is comparable to a managerial position in a store. The ushers are the clerks and the head usher is the manager, so to speak. The head usher has knowledge of the technical application of the church's audio equipment, as well as entrance accessibility to the building.
Prior Service Duties
The head usher should arrive at the church 30 to 45 minutes prior to a service to make sure all things are in order. All appropriate entrances should be unlocked, and all security entrances should be posted. Any non-entrance doors should be checked to make sure they are inaccessible. Check the bulletins and inform other ushers of any changes. The head usher should unite all the ushers, possibly through having a prayer session before the first service.
All in-service materials should be checked. All accompanying lights in the facility should be turned on. All other electrical and electronic equipment, such as microphones, amplifiers, alarms, and heating or air conditioning units, should be turned on. Collection plates should be put in the appropriate places.
The head usher should assign subordinate ushers to entrance doors throughout the auditorium and all entrances.
In-Service Duties
The head usher should greet any latecomers at the entrance and guide them to a designated section to wait until the next available seating time. If there are any first-time visitors, they should be made acquainted with basic information about the church and be given special attention. However, there be no disruptions or distractions during the service. The head usher also supervises the other ushers, ensuring they are performing their duties well.
Before the offering, the head usher should direct the other ushers to their respective locations before it starts, but only at the right time. The head usher and another usher take the offerings to the appropriate place within the church.
After-Service Duties
The head usher ensures a headcount has been taken of everyone at the service. After the headcount has been verified, the head usher should delegate cleanup tasks. After the cleanup, the collection plates should be returned to the proper location. Security checks should be made to the doors around the building after all the church members have exited. All windows and doors should, then, be locked.
After the rounds have been made, the head usher can begin shutting off all the electrical equipment (lights, fixtures, heat and air conditioning units, microphones). If there are any problems, she should report them to the church's main office. Verifying all lights and equipment are off, the head usher exits the building, locking the door to the facility.
