Not Pushing 40
Few months ago, my church board recommended that 40 ministries be created. My pastor said, “Oh, well, wait till next year”. I thought that meant (hopefully), “Not going to happen, fool!” (say in deep A-Team B.A. voice), but now it either means “Oh my God, my Board is really pushing this, I ought to say yes lest I get impeached or something” or “Hey, it’s a rather jolly idea”.
Granted, when the plan was announced today in church, the number of ministries in the church isn’t a humongous number of 40. No, thankfully, it is a much, much lower number of, well, 39.
Still, the idiocity remained. There is a “Sound Room Ministry”, “Projection Ministry” and “Drama and Creative Arts Ministry” - as well as an Audio Visual Ministry. So lets say the church decides to make a video presentation - the Drama and Creative Arts Ministry would cast, record and direct. And then on the day or presentation, the Sound Room Ministry would handle the audio output, the Projection Ministry would handle the video. The Audio Visual Minister? Probably charged with pressing “Play”, “Pause” and “Stop” on the DVD Player.
Don’t worry, on the forms, it is required everyone pledge to accept training - so those involved in the A/V Ministry would be trained to know exactly the amount of pressure to apply in pressing those vital buttons on the DVD Player. It would be a great learning experience, the aunties and uncles can learn how to program their VCR! In Church!