Rare insight on how the church works
Ever since my father became the elder in the church, a quintessential AoG church, I have gotten a rare insight on how the church works. Or rather, doesn’t. You see, the Church Board, filled with prominent members of the church, makes stupid suggestions, the pastor filters as much of it as possible and the occasional stupid suggestion passes through and it would serve years to annoy a whole lot of people.
Like the most recent - a board meeting my father didn’t attend, the Church board decided to create and rearrange the ministries. So they decided 5-6 ministries isn’t enough, they suggest making it 40 ministries. An average of 7 registered church members per ministry. Brilliant! Of course, that wasn’t the funny part. It would seem like they picked out 40 names and decided to make it into a lottery session. I can almost imagine it..
“Okay, John, draw from the bowl, see who’s in charge of Tamborines, Flag and Dance Ministry”
“Oh, look, its Ramasamy Ragnathan a/l Inderasukumariam!”
“Well, he could loose the weight…”
Some of those brilliant ministry suggestions don’t make sense. Why is there, for example, a Audio Visual Ministry and a Sound Room Ministry? The latter is to keep the sound room clean? Or one for “Youth” and the other for “Students”. And the Board suggested that church members should only be involved in no more than three ministries. So what happen if you want to play the guitar (under “Music”), teach guitar (”Education Ministry”), manage the sound system when you are free (”Audio Visual” and “Sound room”)? Give up one!
And I thought I was involved too little in church, under the new system, I would be involved in no less than five ministries. Wow. Granted, the pastor rejected the proposal says he would only consider it next year.