Monday, May 12, 2008
Disastrous Success!
Mother's Day at CUPC is usually a pretty routine event....
A few nice little things said...
The Church Mother is honored....
I used to call her the Pastor's wife but I like Church Mama better....haha
Anyway....
Normally we will have a nice little song and then Pastor makes a nice little talk about Moms and then everybody goes out to eat with Mama....
Then nobody hardly comes back to church on Sunday night.....
But not yesterday....
Twas quite a Success....
We had promised any kid that brought his/her mom or grandmother $5.....
We also decided since the kids were gonna sing they would be kept in the sanctuary.....
We we afraid of an off crowd since several families were out of town....
But were amazed by the numbers of families that visited....
And the number of Tracie's Moms that came....
The house was full.....
Tracie had 6 neighborhood moms come....
We passed out a bunch of $5 bills....
Somebody gave an offering that paid for most of the $5.....
Tracie was happy and the kids were ecstatic....
That was the successful part....
Now the Disaster.....
Pastor's sermon bit the dust....
A houseful of visitors....
Potential members everywhere...
Pastor was "led" to encourage the single moms.....
But there was so much chaos from all those kids....
One was trying to pickpocket the brother charged with guarding him....
Another was shouting out....
Several got loose during the service....
Everybody watched the show....
Nobody paid a bit of attention to the very nice 20 little pastor talk.....
I cut my losses....
We prayed and quit.....
What a disaster....
What a Disastrous Success....
House was full of families and visiting moms and the pastor's talk was a disaster...
But I am happy with it...
And next week I get another chance to wax eloquent....
Truth be known...
Nobody will pay attention next week either....
Blessings...
rks
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3 comments:
What a SUCCESSFUL day we enjoyed! Last night's service was totally incredible, too. It never got past the praise service.....Thanks to Trent and the Fergusons for pushing the youth to pray in the pre-service! I did feel for you trying to preach with all my kids being themselves! I guess I shouldn't have marched them to the front row....
Bro Smith - I love what Bro Blagg said last nite about the "chaos" yesterday morning. He even had the nerve to ask for a show of hands as to how many got "nothing" out of the service. A few honest souls admitted that there was way too much going on around them to get anything from your message. BUT ISN'T THAT WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT?!?!? We saints have had lots of messagesin which to get something. Yesterday was about souls. Pure and simple.
Give me church unnormal. Unplanned. Unrehearsed. Unscheduled. A few chaotic services in the a.m. and we'll see more Holy Ghost taking over in the p.m.
And this is one mama that is unbelievably thankful that her sons are not willing to accept normal church any more either.
It truly was a wonderful Mother's Day...
Kathleen
I too was thankful that the Newton boys stepped out of the norm and ignited faith! There is nothing like our kiddos in the altars!
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