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10-18-2010, 07:20 PM
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Does your church do this?
For years I have attended Christmas programs at various churches where the event was done as an outreach type service to get the parents of the bus kids to attend and to attract visitors.
This year, it has been announced that our Christmas program will be a dinner theater fundraiser. The cost of admission is $15.
I don't mind giving money to my church, but I feel this is the wrong way to go about raising funds. I may be alone in my opinion on this, but I was just appalled that they would make the decision to do this. It's not like this church would not be able to pay the bills if they didn't do this fundraiser.
Anyone else's church using the Christmas program to solicit more money from it's members?
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10-18-2010, 07:43 PM
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Re: Does your church do this?
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For years I have attended Christmas programs at various churches where the event was done as an outreach type service to get the parents of the bus kids to attend and to attract visitors.
This year, it has been announced that our Christmas program will be a dinner theater fundraiser. The cost of admission is $15.
I don't mind giving money to my church, but I feel this is the wrong way to go about raising funds. I may be alone in my opinion on this, but I was just appalled that they would make the decision to do this. It's not like this church would not be able to pay the bills if they didn't do this fundraiser.
Anyone else's church using the Christmas program to solicit more money from it's members?
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Rather than creating a firestorm here on the Forum and gathering up ammunition for your distaste about what is going on at your church, why don't you do the Matthew 18 thing and go talk to either your pastor directly or those responsible for this? It'll save your heart a whole lot of trouble.
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10-18-2010, 07:46 PM
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Re: Does your church do this?
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Rather than creating a firestorm here on the Forum and gathering up ammunition for your distaste about what is going on at your church, why don't you do the Matthew 18 thing and go talk to either your pastor directly or those responsible for this? It'll save your heart a whole lot of trouble. |
Not a bad idea. These dining and theatrical events can cost a lot of money. They can also stir up discord.
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10-18-2010, 07:51 PM
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Re: Does your church do this?
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Not a bad idea. These dining and theatrical events can cost a lot of money. They can also stir up discord.
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Really. Our church did a production of "Showboat" once to raise money for flannelgraph and other Sunday School supplies.
Between the issues of miscegenation, lusty dames and the fact that our stevedores were all "Irish" instead of Blacks, we lost half the congregation to one thing or the other.
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10-18-2010, 07:47 PM
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Re: Does your church do this?
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Rather than creating a firestorm here on the Forum and gathering up ammunition for your distaste about what is going on at your church, why don't you do the Matthew 18 thing and go talk to either your pastor directly or those responsible for this? It'll save your heart a whole lot of trouble. |
ur funny when you put on those thick glasses and act all serious.
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10-18-2010, 07:54 PM
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Re: Does your church do this?
I suppose our church is probably the exception to the rule, but we rarely ever charge for anything we invite the public to. I can't even remember the last time we charged for something, now that I think about it. In fact, we do 2 FREE clothing give-aways every year. Our mother-daughter tea is free, our Christmas banquet is free, we do a Christmas "play" with the Sunday School kids every december, which is, you guessed it, free.
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10-18-2010, 08:00 PM
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Re: Does your church do this?
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ur funny when you put on those thick glasses and act all serious.
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The truth is, I don't like the idea. But I just get an icky feeling when someone has some angst with the church they're attending and attempts to solve it by going on an internet discussion board looking for opinions. I don't see much of a way that's going to result in anything good. We're all here just blabbing. But MusicMaster has to sit there next week and potentially listen to a pastor she's ticked off at, loaded with negative opinions he/she gathered on AFF.
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10-19-2010, 07:51 AM
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Re: Does your church do this?
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The truth is, I don't like the idea. But I just get an icky feeling when someone has some angst with the church they're attending and attempts to solve it by going on an internet discussion board looking for opinions. I don't see much of a way that's going to result in anything good. We're all here just blabbing. But MusicMaster has to sit there next week and potentially listen to a pastor she's ticked off at, loaded with negative opinions he/she gathered on AFF.
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What happened to the old notofworks?
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Re: Does your church do this?
Charge for the meal or a "theatrical" event, yeah ok. But don't call it "outreach". True "outreach" should never cost anything.
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10-19-2010, 10:16 AM
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Re: Does your church do this?
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What happened to the old notofworks?
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Nothing new here. I think, and I've always thought, it's dangerous to bring a grievance with one's local church here to this forum and get opinions. In any area of life, if one has a contention with another, the best solution is always to go directly to the source. To do otherwise is to potentially corrupt one's heart beyond repair.
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