GREETING
We schedule two greeters every Sunday morning. Greeters should be at their station no later than 10:15 am. Greeters should stand by the doors in the reception area.  

Your main job as a greeter is to greet! Say hello to new and old friends, but please try to avoid long conversations, if possible. Remember that new visitors need special assistance, so introduce visitors to the Visitor Contact Person so the visitors can get that special attention they need. They need to know where the name tags are, for one thing. In addition, if visitors want to get our newsletter,  the weekly e-mail “This Week in RE,” or a visitor packet of information about our church and about UUism, then they should fill out a yellow contact information sheet. These are found on the reception area desk or on the Visitors’ table in front of the coat rack. Visitors with children in our classrooms MUST fill out a contact information sheet.  

VCPs will show newcomers the ropes of a typical Sunday morning. VCPs will help visitors with children to understand the procedures of a typical day in Religious Education. After services, VCPs will  give visitors a quick tour of the building or find someone to offer a tour. Greeeters should help out after services by talking to someone they have never met before during Glorified Coffee Hour.  

Please introduce visitors to others. If possible, introduce newcomers to staff members.

Greeters should also assist ushers with the offering.     

CHECKLIST FOR GREETERS:
Do you know where the name tags are and how they are set up?
Do you know where the yellow contact information sheets are?
Do you know where pens and markers are located?
Do you know the building well enough to give a quick tour?
Do you understand the schedule for Religious Education?
Do you know who the Visitor Contact Person and the ushers are?
Do you know how to help the ushers with the offertory?
Do you know where the brochures are with information about our church and about UUism?”
Please ask Samantha Masterton
or Deb Hartman if you have any questions.

USHERING
Ushers help by handing out orders of service and by helping collect the offering. When handing out the orders of service, both ushers should position themselves between the atrium and the sanctuary at the south end. Ushers should be at their stations no later than 10:15 am.

At around 11:00 am, after the Children’s Focus portion of the service and after the children and teachers have been sung out to the classrooms, you should count all people (including infants and children) remaining in the sanctuary. This figure should be written on the offering tally sheet.

Check the order of service for the timing of the offering. You can be ready by having the offering plates removed from their velvet bags (in the ushers’ room). When it is time for the  offering, greeters should join the ushers, walk to the front of the sanctuary, and pass plates down each row.  When the offering is completed, ushers should take full plates to the ushers’ room and count the money.

There is an offering tally sheet for you in the ushers’ room. Please count only the loose cash. IMPORTANT: Please do NOT open any envelopes or count checks. All cash, checks, and unopened envelopes get folded with the tally sheet and put in the blue money bag and dropped in the slot behind the Office Manager’s desk area. The silver plates should go back into their bags.
Your job is done once you have completed the above tasks. Enjoy the remainder of the service, and thank you for helping.

CHECKLIST FOR USHERS:
Do you know where you are supposed to stand?
Do you know who the Visitor Contact Person and the greeters are?
Do you know where the orders of service are?
Do you know where the offertory plates are?
Do you understand the instructions for counting the offering?
Do you know where the money drop slot is?
Do you know how to get up in the balcony to count the people?
Please ask Samantha Masterton or Deb Hartman if you have any questions.