I remember a time ohnotsolongago when our youth group caught heck because we wanted to host a fundraiser for a choir trip. It wasn’t complicated. We planned to host a hot-dog feed on Wednesday night. Everybody was at church on Wednesdays anyway. We figured instead of asking folks for more money, we’d give them something in exchange — a slaw dog.
Ha.
Such a conipiton fit you’ve never seen the likes of erupted.
Allegations flew.
It would be akin to bringing money changers into the church, the staunch regime complained.
At the time, I thought it was absurd, the way those old folks were carrying on.
My gosh. Alls we wanted to do was raise money so we could go on a road trip singing about Jesus to the tune of the House of the Rising Sun.
Now, I wonder.
Stories like this one make me wonder where we went wrong.
Any ideas?
You should have called it a “bake sale.” No one would have batted an eye. Slaw Dog is just a meat brownie with fixins.
Wow, Karen, that is definitely some food for thought. Now my niece’s daughter was born on Christmas Eve. So for Christmas my wife made a Happy Birthday Jesus & Allie cake. Several thought it was cute, but there some grumblings in the room from the elders. I think Jesus would be proud to have a slaw dawg sale to raise $ to promote His name through traveling song.
Interesting Karen, I had this same argument with a retired Pastor we both know:) I don’t know about slaw dogs but he was not happy about some T-shirt sales that were going to be brought into the church to raise some money for the youth group. I tend to agree with Gary that I think Jesus would be honored by the cake and the slaw dogs. I think honoring Him is the most important thing, not how we go about doing it.
I was there…boy do I remember that time! We were doing so much good work for Jesus and having a ball at the same time. That was the beginning of the end for the Prophecy. I think we were so WAY ahead of our time with our show that the folks at the church just didn’t know what to do with us, don’t you think??
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