Ushers and greeters are servants of the assembly, welcoming and greeting people, helping them find places, directing people to find needed information when they have questions, providing parish registration forms to new members who inquire. They place seasonal or Sunday literature or envelopes as needed, and hand out bulletins at the end of Mass. They clean and organize the assembly space for the next liturgy. Ushers also facilitate and assist the parish collections of money and food, directing the procession with the gifts and the communion processional. Training is provided.

It has been said that the sense of community or "church" that is communicated in the first thirty seconds of a person's arrival at church, forms the impression that person will have of the quality of hospitality and welcome in that church. A minister of hospitality is often the first human contact a person has as they enter a church. Christian hospitality and welcome is what our ushers and greeters seek to offer those who gather for Sunday Eucharist.

To find out more about greeting and ushering, or to sign up to be trained, call Deirdre Sweet at the parish office at 407-277-1702 Ext. 127.

One hot summer day as Abraham sat in the door of his tent he noticed three men had appeared. Realizing that these were no ordinary people, Abraham rose and ran to meet them. "My Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, don't pass by but stay a while and while we tend to your comforts. Rest under the shade of this tree while I fetch water to wash your dusty feet and prepare a food for you to eat." Abraham and Sarah fixed a meal which Abraham placed before the visitors, and then he stood back to watch respectfully while they ate.