Does your church do this?

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Originally Posted by MusicMaster

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?

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.