grumpy has left a new comment on your post "Shrinkers Against Working Hard":
Here's a question...how many of your pastors show up for work days when your church has a clean-up, do some yard work, paint, etc. work day?
Some have said that their pastor's are usually busy with their families on those days, while members who also have families and work full time come almost every time there is a call.
When at prep school (MLS), freshmen and sophmore were required to shovel the walks and driveways of the professors. Sometimes these professors had children (teenagers) who had their walks shoveled by their dorm living classmates.
Is there a tendency for called workers to consider themselves exempt from the lowly grubby work of the church?
I have seen cases both ways (won't say which seems to be the more COMMON way), I was curious as to how other churches perceive this.
Grumps
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GJ - The Sausage Factory paid students to mow the lawns of the professors. Same deal - the professors had plenty of kids to do that.
By the way - this comes from someone on the Sausage board - no school is safe from the money crisis. Mequon is sitting on some mighty fine residential property, which was once a farm of some 165 acres. Mequon is a wealthy suburb and the seminary is out of money, more or less.
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grumpy has left a new comment on your post "Grumps Asks about Shrinkers Working":
Just an addendum Dr. Jackson...no pay was made to MLS preppies...it was just one more tradition...
I had no qualms about it when it was for an eldery professor without resident able bodied children.
For some others...well....
Grumps
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GJ - The tradition reminds me of dwarf tossing. Who thought up free work for the profs? The students?
