Being a greeter or an usher is an important part of Sunday mornings at Port City. Not only are you the voice of a friendly “good morning” to many people before the service, but you are also an information source. If ever you don’t know the answer to a particular question, you can always point people to the Information Desk.
There are a few things you need to know in order to help your greeting experience go smoothly:
• You’ll serve on the same team each time you serve
• You should arrive to the Host Team Room 45 minutes before the service begins. It is essential that you arrive 45 minutes beforehand so that all necessary information can be communicated effectively. Here are your arrival times:
8:15am for the 9am service
10:15am for the 11am service
3:15pm for the 4pm service
5:15pm for the 6pm service
Meet the Greeter & Usher Captains
9AM (1st & 3rd greeter captain)
Dave Greiner
9AM (1st & 3rd usher captain)
Todd Devine
9AM (2nd & 4th greeter captain)
Marie Crabtree
9AM (2nd & 4th usher captain)
T.J. Drechsel
11AM (1st & 3rd greeter captain)
Michael Smithe
11AM (1st & 3rd usher captain)
Scott Carrick
11AM (2nd & 4th greeter captain)
Megan Shoecraft
11AM (2nd & 4th usher captain)
Mary Wall
4PM (1&3 greeter/usher captain)
Jeremy Smith
4pm (2&4 greeter/usher captain)
Scott Boyles
6pm (1&3 greeter captain)
Heath Kelley
6pm (1&3 usher captain)
Branch Smith
6pm (2&4 greeter captain)
Jeanne Elmore
6pm (2&4 usher captain)
Brenda Wade
Interior Door Greeters
Each service requires 12 Interior Door Greeters (IDG’s) to function smoothly. As an IDG, you will distribute bulletins to people entering the main auditorium. Bulletins can be found in the rooms on either side of the Information Desk.
IDG’s are to remain at their assigned door until the announcements have begun.
• Inner Auditorium Doors: Inside doors to the auditorium are NEVER to be propped open, though IDG’s should open and close them accordingly as people pass through. Keeping the interior doors shut helps maintain a comfortable temperature in the main auditorium, as well as prevents the on-stage haze from setting off any fire alarms.
• Outer Auditorium Doors: Doorstops for these can be found in a nearby basket. These doors should be closed when the IDG leaves his or her post when the announcements have started.
• Please remember to put bulletins back on the tables, and keep the area around your door looking tidy
• If you are placed at the 2nd set of interior doors, your main job is to open doors for people as they come in.
Exterior Door Greeters
Each service also requires 14 Exterior Door Greeters (EDG’s) in order to function smoothly. For the same reason as the inner auditorium doors, we ask that these doors not be propped open. Opening and closing them for people as they enter and depart, rather than propping them, both maintains the temperature inside the building and affords an opportunity to interact with people as they pass through.
Due to different weather conditions that day, we ask that all greeters prepare for the weather outside, in case you are placed on an outside door.
All Greeters
At the end of the service during Mike’s prayer, quietly return to your original door in order to dismiss the congregation. Remember to collect recycled bulletins at these doors.
Stay at your door until most of the crowd has dismissed.
Ushers
Ushers are responsible for:
1. greeting people as the come into the auditorium
2. helping seat people after the service has begun
3. collecting the offering in the baskets provided. (baskets are located at the rear of the auditorium and should be divided up by sections)
• Seating It is essential that ushers be as discrete and non-distracting as possible, making sure not to disrupt the service and those worshipping. The section that you pass your baskets out to, is the section that you are responsible for seating people in. We need to be sure to fill up the front of the auditorium first – and then as people come in, seat people accordingly.
• At the end of the service be sure to go back to your section to clean up any left behind bulletins or coffee mugs, place any left behind items in the lost and found located behind the info desk, old programs can go into the recycle box located under the bulletins on either side of the information desk.
• Tshirts: You have been provided with a host team t-shirt. It is an option for you to wear while you are serving, it is not a requirement.