Prayer For Ushers
Our dear loving Father who is in heaven, we want to take thank you for opportunity you given us to see another miracle day in our lives , it is a great honor to congregate during this day as we celebrate the ushers of this church,
In your word you say...For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.(Psalms 84:10), this noble job the ushers have a chosen is the church is a blessings in life,
King of kings we have always yearned to see this day and without saying much we know that at the end of the day everyone who managed to find time to come and grace the occasion will be blessed.
As we start the the program of the day,we want to request the Holy Spirit to abide with us until we finish for we know Lord you love us,
Thank you for hearing and answering our prayer we ask in the name of our Lord Jesus,
Amen
Lord Jesus, You welcome those who seek you
with a kindness and gentleness that wins souls.
You welcomed conversation with the Samaritan woman.
You welcomed the lame, the blind, the broken.
You were a friend of sinners that the self-righteous people rejected.
You displayed the greatest love of all,
that you laid down your life for your friends.
As people come to church, help me to be kind to them.
Help me to give them a welcome that is worthy of your Name.
Help me to display kindness in a way that will prepare the way for them
to encounter Jesus in his word, body and blood.
Help me to set aside my preoccupations and worries and focus on them.
Allow kindness to show forth in me,
blocking all negative judgment because of what a guest wears,
apparent social status, or ethnic background.
Allow kindness to show forth in as I greet each and every person who walks in the door.
Allow kindness to help me see an unspoken need and meet it today.
Let my ways be pleasing in your sight.
May the kindness I share help a person calm down from a stressful morning,
a nervous first time visitor to feel safe,
and share an expression of Your love for someone who needs it today.
May the kindness I show help everyone who enters today be at peace.
As I walk in kindness today,
I will bless each guest and member who walks into our church.
I want to help them to experience your presence.
In Your Name,
Amen.
Almighty God, you have blessed each of us with unique gifts, and you have called us into specific occupations, relationships, and activities using those gifts. Enable us to use our talents to witness to our faith in you and to communicate your love to the people we meet each day. Empower us to be ministers of your reconciliation, love, hope, and justice. Keep us steadfast in our commitment to serve actively in your name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Occasional Services, p. 148, copyright 1982
Direct us, O Lord, in all our doings with your most gracious favor and further us with your continual help, that in all our works, begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy name and finally, by your mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Lutheran Book of Worship, p. 49, copyright 1978
God of Love, thank you for everyone who volunteers to be an usher or greeter at CPC! They are the front-line' of our church, but really they are your face at our doors! We pray that your spirit continues to fill them with hospitality and grace as they meet people at the door each week. Give them words of comfort and welcome, and the ability to know which words each person needs to hear as they come in to our church. God call new members of our congregation to help the ushers and greeters as they need it. Lord be with this ministry at CPC! Amen.
Our Father in heaven, we thank you for giving us the opportunity to serve as ushers in your house. We would rather be doorkeepers in the House of God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness (Psalm 84:10)
Help us Lord to serve you with our whole heart, our whole body and our whole mind.
We present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto you Lord. May our service be pleasing in your sight. Let all that we do be done to you glory, this is our prayer. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen
Lord in Your love, You gather Your people this day, help me to serve them
in a Christ-like manner, even as Your son Jesus served those who gathered
about Him. Make me prayerful, patient, helpful and understanding, and
may I radiate the joy that faith brings as I serve their needs. Give me Your
strength to support my fellow ministers. May all who assemble to celebrate
our common faith in the Risen Savior be glad of heart for being here and
for having encountered Your son in one another, in our priest, at the altar
of the Word and the Body and Blood, and through the ministry of ushers
like me. I ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Lord Jesus, You welcome those who seek you
with a kindness and gentleness that wins souls.
You welcomed conversation with the Samaritan woman.
You welcomed the lame, the blind, the broken.
You were a friend of sinners that the self-righteous people rejected.
You displayed the greatest love of all,
that you laid down your life for your friends.
As people come to church, help me to be kind to them.
Help me to give them a welcome that is worthy of your Name.
Help me to display kindness in a way that will prepare the way for them
to encounter Jesus in his word, body and blood.
Help me to set aside my preoccupations and worries and focus on them.
Allow kindness to show forth in me,
blocking all negative judgment because of what a guest wears,
apparent social status, or ethnic background.
Allow kindness to show forth in as I greet each and every person who walks in the door.
Allow kindness to help me see an unspoken need and meet it today.
Let my ways be pleasing in your sight.
May the kindness I share help a person calm down from a stressful morning,
a nervous first time visitor to feel safe,
and share an expression of Your love for someone who needs it today.
May the kindness I show help everyone who enters today be at peace.
As I walk in kindness today,
I will bless each guest and member who walks into our church.
I want to help them to experience your presence.
In Your Name,
Amen.