Last week I received a message from a parishioner complaining about the bulletin format and how it can be fixed.
I dubbed that "The First," as in, the first complaint by a parishioner about something I had done.
Today I got the second complaint.
When I was on a site visit to another congregation they had what they called a "Letters to God" program where the children could "send" questions or comments and the priest or Christian Ed person would answer them. I really liked the idea and was looking forward to either a) participating in it should I be called there, or b) beginning a similar program should I be called elsewhere.
I was obviously called elsewhere and I've been working with our youth director and another Sunday school teacher to get it up and running. Considering I showed up just before Advent, it wasn't exactly number one on the priority list. But this past week it was finished and I received the first four letters.
Two were love notes to God and two posed questions. One was, "Hi! Wassup?" The other one asked, "Why do we have incense?" It's the second one that I will address in church.
And today I got a phone call from a parishioner wanting to talk about this program because he doesn't agree with it. To be fair, I'm not exactly sure what his concern is because he wanted to have a face-to-face meeting rather than over the phone; and he did tell me what the general topic of his concern was so that I wasn't blindsided. So I set up an appointment with him for next week to talk about the Letters to God program.
I will listen. And I will ask him why he has a problem with allowing theological inquiries from children. And we will hopefully come to an understanding that this is an okay thing. Really.
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
The Second
Posted by
Reverend Ref +
at
4:25 PM
Labels: annoyances, church
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
A Few Words About Comments
Comments are always welcome here, but there are a few things you should know:
1) If you comment, leave a name. If you can't figure out how to log in or register or whatever the system is making you do (which, believe me, I fully understand how frustrating that can be) and you must comment anonymously . . . leave a name in the comment section. Purely anonymous comments will be deleted.
2) Comments I deem to be offensive, irrelevant, or generally trollish will be deleted. I'm mainly talking to the Akurians here. Don't make me get out my flag!
3) If you would like to receive e-mail notification of other comments so you can more easily follow a conversation (yeah, like I ever have those on this blog), you must register with Blogger. Sorry . . . I didn't have anything to do with that one.
Enjoy the game.
1) If you comment, leave a name. If you can't figure out how to log in or register or whatever the system is making you do (which, believe me, I fully understand how frustrating that can be) and you must comment anonymously . . . leave a name in the comment section. Purely anonymous comments will be deleted.
2) Comments I deem to be offensive, irrelevant, or generally trollish will be deleted. I'm mainly talking to the Akurians here. Don't make me get out my flag!
3) If you would like to receive e-mail notification of other comments so you can more easily follow a conversation (yeah, like I ever have those on this blog), you must register with Blogger. Sorry . . . I didn't have anything to do with that one.
Enjoy the game.
The War in Ukraine
Friends' Parishes
Clergy Blogs
Friendly Blogs
Mental Recess
- Awesome Food Recipes
- Awkward Family Photos
- Babylon Bee
- Bloggess
- Brick Testament
- Cake Wrecks
- Catholic Satire
- Chocoloate
- G.U. "Zags" Men's Basketball
- G.U. "Zags" Women's Basketball
- Motivational Reality
- NASA
- Optical Illusions
- Politics, Religion, Sports, and Stuff
- Red Green
- Right Behind
- Secular Religion
- Veggie Tales!
- WHL Hockey
Personal Stuff
small god in an itty-bitty box that i made in wood shop
Previous Posts
The Church
Church News Sites
Church Resources
- Anglican Liturgy in New Zealand
- Backstory Preaching
- BCPs of the Anglican Communion
- Bible Gateway
- Canadian Confirmation
- Christian Classics Etheral Library
- Crosswalk Bible Concordance
- Daily Office Prayer
- Daily Offices
- Forward Movement
- Grow Christians
- Lectionary for the Church Year
- Lectionary Musings
- Olive Tree Bible Search
- Orthodox History
- Pop Theology
- The Anglican Theological Review
- The Hymnal 1982
- The Thoughtful Christian
- Time Management
- Working Preacher
3 comments:
So, this morning, as I held my third warm cup of pee collected today, I sort of grumbled to myself about that not being my idea of a fun time.
I will take the warm, plastic, LIDDED cups of urine any day over complaint letters and the like. Hope things go well and you're able to come to an understanding with your people.
The good news, though, is that these particular people were upfront about coming to see me. I've had disgruntled people who would rather work to attempt a parking lot coupe, and that's much worse.
Straightforward I can deal with.
Oh, boy! We've had those "parking lot coups" as you describe them, in our own parish. It's not fun to be blindsided by the opposition. (I do like that expression - absolutely perfect.)
Post a Comment