Our church is a couple hours from two different church camps. Both camps are having “Family Camps” over Labor Day weekend. Long story short. We have a lot going on right now and opted to promote neither through the bulletin, newsletter, etc.
T’s wife loves family camp. (T is an associate pastor).
T’s wife – TM – sent me an email asking if we could put a bunch of information about her favorite camp in the bulletin, on announcement slides, verbal announcements, etc. I wrote her back and said we had decided not to promote it and the reason. She fired back a hostile email demanding answers as to why we would not promote the camp and how much people loved the camp, etc, etc, etc.
Oh yeah, she CC’d the elders. I guess she forgot the part of the game where when she doesn’t get what she wants, she threatens to tell daddy. She just went straight to daddy thinking daddy would give her whatever she wants.
Did I mention that there are some odd dynamics at this church?
I was ticked.
So I called T in and discussed it with him. All pastors have to deal with people like this, of course, but, they shouldn’t be staff wives.
T is going to talk with TM. I hope that goes well.
I would have been horrified if my wife, W, did something like that. This place is a little crazy.
“half the world is going to hell and you are more upset that I said Damn than that they are lost” Starting a fight about a camp? ridiculous.
What is sad to me is that all these people seem to think this type of behavior is appropriate. They have no respect for authority in their lives, don’t know what to do with authority and when they are asked to follow the leader, they balk and cause chaos. I feel for you….gotta be hard.
Speaking as a mom, one of the problems of tattling, is that after while the one who tattles is not listened to. Not only might the tattler be ignored, the tattler might herself get in trouble. At least, that is how it is with my children.
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