Comments on: Turning ushers into the secret service.

By: hermit

hermit — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:30:43 +0000

It would be so great to see them put the sleeper hold on that person waving the flags around that routinely hits the front row sitters in the head. You know who I am talking about.

By: thoughtriver

thoughtriver — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:06:13 +0000

hahaha that is so awesome

By: Americophobe

Americophobe — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:12:00 +0000

I am so glad I don't live in America. You people are weird.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:42:44 +0000

Believe it or not, I’ve actually had a church usher try to Vulcan neck pinch me before. He botched it, of course, and just wound up squeezing the pressure point in my shoulder. I was 15 at the time and I was mortified o.O Needless to say, that usher got a steern talking to by the Pastor. I don’t even remember what I did. I think I refused to stop standing in the lobby after the service started or something.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:18:58 +0000

I am the administrator for our church and yesterday I just had lunch with the Head of our Security Team discussing the roles of his security team! We do have security for our church and it is their job to keep the peace in our church, escort out any drunks, people high, and disorderly, watch the childrens area, and be ready to help the pastor out if needed. The truth is that there is a spiritual battle always taking place (Ephesians 6) and when you are preaching the gospel week to week you see alot of horrible things and people know who you are as the church in the community. We have seen some rough stuff take place inside our walls and we only put together this team out of necessity. Ex body builder -Leader, 2x National Juijitsu Champion, and a brown belt Juijitsu fighter.. and we have a couple more ready to go…All LOVE Jesus!!!!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:44:16 +0000

At my parents church the ushers DO double as security detail…and prowl the parking lot for a teenager who is suspicious-looking skateboarding during church, and he MUST be looking to rob some cars…until you find out that he's waiting to go to the next service that starts in fifteen minutes.
Yeah.

By: Ian Matthews

Ian Matthews — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:18:02 +0000

Here in the UK we have our local neighbourhood Community Support Officer (a sort of assistant police officer) come to church (to worship) most Sundays when on his 'beat'. We are only a small church (about 150 at our service most Sundays), so it really obvious when he comes in with his uniform (with bulletproof vest etc).

Part of my remit is the PA system, and after repeated beggings from the operators I have persuaded him to turn his radio off when he comes in .

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:02:00 +0000

God bless citizens with concealed carry permits that make good use of them. As history shows, you can’t be too careful, even in church.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:59:00 +0000

When our “ushers” have hall monitor duty, they always wear jackets – to hide their “piece.” Yep, they’re packing. No hall monitor duty? Jeans and a tshirt. Okay, not really, it’s an IB church, but still, you know the days they’re carrying.

By: johnny

johnny — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:04:00 +0000

We have separate ushers and security. We have had to take people out during a service and nobody but the security team and one of the assistant pastors knew anything was going on. They spotted the guy as he pulled into the parking lot and parked in the drop off area. During the alter call he came down and wanted to tell the pastor that he was preaching the next service.