strip away the flesh, take us higher

Hi fellow ushers!

These few months have been very exciting, usherin the people and seeing souls being planted in church.

Its a privilege to be an usher as you get to witness salvations. every week we share the joy of our Psts and leaders in church attendance.. "ah did we breakthrough? did we break 700??"
"How many chairs do we have to put this week?" Pure anxiety of the church attendance and not just heeding the instructions of the chief ushers.

Thinking about it, ushers have the privilege to count the number of people every week. We may not get the actual attendance but the rough gauge is first in our hands. Joy of breakin through new numbers weekly just excites me.

Week in week out, "hey i have not seen him before. heyhey who is she ah.. intro me leh!" Ushers at the white gate literally usher these new people into their destinies.
2 months after someone is planted in church, come to think of it, 2 months before it was the ushers who play a simple yet impactful role in the spiritual realm by just saying hi to them.

Man! What a great privilege to be an usher!

I remember Samantha foo shared with me before, even if you were to be a TL for life, be a great and dependable one! I'm saying even if you were to haha. The definition of great TL; a leader who does his or her job well, his/her leaders do not have to chase them for people work.. but instead they provide their own solutions to their problems, prempting every possible problem that may come their way. Definition of dependable; when your/any leader wants to find a leader, you will come to his/her mind.

And it applies to ministry as well. it is set in my heart, since im in it, why not give my best, just throw myself in. i may never be a chief/head usher, but i want to be a great and dependable usher!

I cannot share with you how excited i am everytime i see people rising up, people start to serve in church.. the joy of newly planted integration worshiping their hearts out.. but let me tell you something, you and i are part of all these. because that very moment that this new friend walks into our premises, this is where it all began. and it is not just new friends, but every single one of the people from new friends to the leaders. you dont know how powerful you guys are.. i've been down and discouraged before services. but the very first encouragement i received wasnt from my leaders, but it was the ushers. when they greeted me they seemed to have the "everything's gonna be alright" face. Ushers are the people who bring a smile to the people. Can you see how powerful you are..

we witness as ushers a church that is stucked at 500. we witness as ushers salvations and decisions. right now, we will witness as ushers how heart of God church will breakthrough and march forth to 1000.

"He's beautiful. She's beautiful."

-chewting