| THE GOOD
NEWS IS... |
THE BAD NEWS IS... |
| your
spouse gave you a new flannel graph board for children’s church |
your
pajamas are missing |
| the
board voted to increase your cracker and juice allowance |
they
took the money from your salary
|
| you
have an additional child in your class today |
it’s
the pastor’s kid back from vacation |
| you
finally have a good sound system in children’s church
|
the
ushers keep coming in to tell you to turn it down |
| all
your volunteers finally showed up on time |
they
joined the choir |
| the
girl that gave you the most trouble has graduated out of your class |
her
little brother starts this Sunday |
| you’re
relating better to the kids each week |
all
the adults think you’re getting goofy |
| you
took a record 50 kids to camp
|
you
only brought back 48 |
| you’re
finally learning some new magic tricks
|
your
new puppet is missing…and your cat |
| you
built out your children’s church room for your new western theme |
the
church board just voted to use the Sunday School quarterly |
| you
just bought a new mini-van for your family |
you
get to use it for all your children’s ministry outings |
| your
new pyrotechnics object lesson impressed all the kids at VBS |
there’s
a large hole in the platform where the grand piano used to set |
| your
new helium tank works great |
the
pastor gave you until Sunday to get the balloons off the sanctuary
ceiling |
| you’re
excited about your new VBS program |
you’re
the 56th church in your town using the same program |
| 100
kids show up for your trip to the zoo |
only
one volunteer shows up |
| you
were just appointed as the new children’s pastor |
you
now oversee the largest volunteer group in the church |
| you
just had a great turn out for the Chuck E. Cheese trip |
the
youth pastor says that he’s using the bus |
| your
church just decided to have two Sunday services
|
you
don’t get to attend either one of them
|
| you
baptized three children this past Sunday |
two
of them wore their water wings |
| you
have a new cordless microphone |
you
forgot to turn it off when you went to the bathroom |
|
Being a children's
pastor is a great life,
but sometimes we still have to laugh at
ourselves. |
