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Skriven 2009-02-27 01:56:22 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: odz and enz againz!
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Hiya Ruth!
-> 
-> ->  hn> pastors are assigned, but each church has the
-> ->  hn> ability to help with the selection process and has
-> ->  hn> rights to accept or reject the assignee.
-> 
-> -> I grew up in that system.  My dad was on the selection committee a
-> -> couple of times (after I left home)--lots easier than the way it's done
-> -> in a Southern Baptist church.  We've some good friend in AZ; she's a 
PK,
-> 
->  hn> Grin, I grew up methodist, Anne's a catholic.
->  hn> When we were first married we went to both
->  hn> churches and belonged to the "young marrieds"
->  hn> in both...oddly enough so did a lot of other
->  hn> "mixed marriages" .
-> 
-> Until they decided which one they'd rather stay with all the time I
-> presume.  Steve grew up Catholic but had left the church by the time we
-> met.  We actually met in an Assemblies of God church that neither of us
-> were members of.
-> 
Actually most rather enjoyed going 
to both...we had a good group of 
folks and everyone stayed pretty much
together until babies started arriving.
Young marrieds with kids don't seem
to have as much free time to socialize (grin)
-> 
-> -> I don't recall having any sort of dinner for the church to meet a
-> -> pastoral candidate tho. Usually when a pastor moved on, there was a 
pot
-> -> luck but a lot of the pastors stayed within the area.  The churches are
-> -> so small, that they had a couple, maybe 3, pastors serving several
-> -> churches.
-> 
->  hn> When my grandfather was a young beginning
->  hn> pastor, he had a "circuit" which covered a large
->  hn> area in Tennessee, Kentucky and a wee bit of
->  hn> Virginia. Evidently there was a great shortage
->  hn> of pastors back in the early part of the century.
-> 
-> Some areas still do have shortages.  My folks live in an area where
-> several churches share pastors (2-3 pastors to 5-6 or so churches).
-> Steve's uncle that passed away last October served 3 churches at one
-> point, 2 that I know of in his retirement.
-> 
(grin) They made my grandfather retire when he hit
75 I think....then he volunteered at St Judes Hospital
for another 10 years or so as a chaplain.
-> 
->  hn> By the time I arrived, he was well established and
->  hn> highly respected and usually was at some of the
->  hn> best churches in the region around Memphis.
-> 
-> So you probably ate your share of Memphis style bbq.  If you're familiar
-> with the chain "Sticky Fingers"--it got started when a couple of guys
-> couldn't get the Memphis style bbq where they lived (IIRC, somewhere in
-> SC). Rachel liked it when she & David lived in Charleston but I'd rather
-> go to non chain places (food's better at them IMO).
-> 
I have had a LOT of Memphis style BBQ!
One of my very favorites is Bozo's BBQ, 
halfway between Memphis and Brownsville..
My mom and dad used to go there on 
dates when they were in high school!
It's about as "non chain" as you can get!
chat with you soon!
hap 
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