As per title, this is how I feel after been
serving in usher ministry for 4 months plus.
I started Ushering on 17 August. Clearly
remember at the back of my mind because it’s Indonesia’s national day. Hehehe.
- Challenges:
What I feel initially…
Trouble waking up early in the morning
Especially waking up Giselle early in the
morning. So many things need to be done. Firstly, I had to make arrangement to
sleep in early on Saturday night in order for us to wake up early on the next
day. Sleep deprivation = grumpy toddler... So to set up her mood right, I tried
my best to give her enough time to rest. Most of the time, we will sleep in as early as
9pm. What we do, brush teeth, wash up, change pyjamas, chit-chat pillow
talk, and etc (which already took 1 hr), and by the time she’s in REM mode, it was
already 10 plus. And then the next morning what we do, I wake up around 645am,
do my own stuffs, and wake her up at around 7.30am, bath her, get her ready, and
left home at around 8am. The best part is, I can do multitask such as doing my
make up while instructs her to wear her own shirt hahaha talking about the
power of word!
You know what? God is sooo good! All the
time! He always provides us with cab every time we stepped out the house! Amen!
- Baby sitter for the day
I have privileges to choose the nanny of
the day, thanks to my LG’s support. But for the first few weeks, I was worrying
too much, will she behave, will she throw tantrums, will she miss me or feel
left out, and stuff like that, while I’m trying to focus on my usher’s duty. Try
to hide away my worry but I know deep inside my heart, nothing good comes out
of worrying the unnecessary things.
So after few round of weeks and she get to
familiarize with sisters in church….she doesn’t mind to go with them now and
surprisingly (based on nanny of the day’s feedback) she is behaving super-duper
well…I guess it’s about hitting it hard for the first time and slowly building
up a habit…
And suddenly, she become very independent… like
eating breakfast by herself such as big girl…go toilets doing her own business
by herself. Well, kids are rotten spoilt when the parents around, do you agree?
And when parents is away suddenly
they’re like, hey, I’m a big girl/ boy yo!
- Internal struggle
Ok, this is my internal struggle but I
decided to share it here. During ushering, I have trouble to ask people to move
seats during service. The reason is because I don’t like to be asked to move my
seat that is why I don’t like to ask them as well.
But now it’s getting better already, if I
ask but they still don’t want to move, what can I say? Just nod politely and
smile lo. For what matters is our response not our initiative. I mean, we can
initiatively ask people to move in but if their response is negative (not
happy/ black face), we can only just smile and let it be.
And then, all the church goers, why you
come so late?
Worst, many people still come late, nearly at the
end of the sermon! It was like 10-15 mins before sermon ends, what’s the point
of coming then? Should you wake up a little bit earlier on Sunday, and come 3-5
mins before service start? Early bird catches more worms, so does an early
church goer receive more WOG...
Ops sorry for the rambling…
So far, during ushering, I’ve been challenged
to:
- Pray for other people. Many times…I do have difficulty to pray for other people especially in English. I mean, I’m the expert saying prayer to myself because I know myself more than anything else in this world, but to pray for other people? “I barely know you”, this kind of feeling. Because I don’t know whether I will be praying repetitively and sounds dramatically boring anot. Haiz…I shouldn’t let this little thingy bugged me and just pray. God please help me.
- Greet people with smile. I love being Greeter, I mean, my braces are invisible but I can’t smile that BIG and show off my braces, just like that, rite? So until I take off my braces I will just smile moderately, for the time being. Surprisingly, almost 60% of the church goers avoiding eye contact with the greeters, some of them just pass by and play with their hand phone. But I’m quite satisfy with the rest of 40%, they will still greet, smile, and sometime, reply, “good morning” and “thanks”. So it’s all good.
- There was
once, I helped a lady, a church goers, who’s feeling unwell during service
and wanted to go toilet, I accompanied her to toilet, just to make sure
that she didn’t tripped off or something like that. She told me that she
just went for operation or something like that, and surprisingly she
shared her little story with me. I really appreciate when people just come
to me and open up to me sharing her life story. After that, she thanked me countless time
for listening to her story. This small little thing, it somehow, refreshed
me from inside out and made my days completely. See…simple gestures but
bring smile to my face J
Ok I think that would
be all. Every time serving is a new experience to me. From unplanned peeping seeing my crush till learn how to pray spontaneously. Learnt many new things,
meeting many new people, serving together as a team, and best part is, grow
together in Jesus Christ. There’ll be more challenges in this ministry and I’m
so ready for it. But hey, with God everything is possible, rite?
Amen.
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