I run the sound/video system during church service 2 ~3 Sunday's a month. One of the challenges is getting the wireless microphones that the Senior Pastor and Worship Pastor wear turned on and off at the right times. Yesterday, during morning service, I was NOT running the sound. We were seated in the second row, directly behind the Pastor. At the end of the service, while the Pianist was playing the offering, there was a screaching noise heard from the speakers. Most of the folks heard it, but it, but moved on to enjoying the music. Those of us who work with the sound started looking around to identify what had made the sound. I looked forward and saw the Pastor removing his hankerchief from his nose and noticed his neck had turned bright red. He had used the piano solo as an opportunity to blow his nose and the sound man had left his mic on. I patted Pastor Darrell on the shoulder and started laughing, which got Pastor Darrell laughing. Then Pastor Clay who was up on the stage started laughing when he made eye contact with me. Because we were all up front, P. Darrell felt he needed to address it. He stood up for the closing announcements as said: "As some of you might have noticed, I really blew it a few minutes ago!"
I'm sure glad I wasn't on the sound board yesterday morning. What are your "funny" church or meeting stories and reactions to those events? EDK
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Kathleen and I know of a young man, who at age 4 and in the earliest of Sunday School classes, insisted on saying a "piece" for the church Christmas Program. The teachers finally relented and gave him a "piece" to say because he was so insistent and also intelligent. But, when the time came, he froze (total stage fright). Then he blurted out "RUB-A-DUB-DUB, THREE MEN IN A TUB".
Well, Eric, was the whole church laughing and how long did it take to get it back under control? Funny and made me chuckle. But Cleve's story made me laugh outloud!
One of the strangest evenings we had in Bloomington church was a church dinner and a guest speaker for the evening. During the meal, the electricity went out. While we finished our meal with candlelight, church members got busy and brought in a generator, two huge spotlights, duct-taped a flashlight to the podium, told the speaker to talk loud, asked the women to "not flush unless necessary" and the men to "use the outdoors" and we carried on with the evening message. It was very dark in the assembly room and it was pitch black in the hallways. Many were wearing coats. Quite an interesting evening and kind of fun, too!
Years ago in the Athens church, when the children (both younger and older) would give "special numbers" before going to their classes - I remember a young visitor who apparently was self-confident enough to get up in a strange church, singing a verse of "Yankee Doodle." I don't remember if my dad or Lavoyd Moore was in charge of the service, but whoever it was managed to keep a straight face.
Every other week I play the piano for the Spanish church service in the activity/fellowship hall of our church. Just last Sunday during the announcements we could hear "Mama! Mama! Mama!" being literally bellowed from one of the restrooms. Some little kid had gotten locked in a stall. :-)
And there was the Sunday afternoon when either Casey or Jake loudly announced to the entire church that "I want to go home and watch TV!"
I remember once when Edwin Ringger announced from the pulpit that there had been a set up car keys turned in with the keychain that said "I love General Hospital". I believe they had to be collected from him. How'd that conversation go Mom?
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And we also remember hearing of a little girl in the Sunnyside Ave. church in Chicago who, when up in front of church at a Sunday School program, couldn't remember her "piece" and finally stomped her foot and finally said "Oh, I just can't SAY this piece!" Any guesses who this family member might be???
And then there was the time in the young group days when I admit I was pretty aware of the brothers right across the aisle from me...and I knelt to pray, only to my embarrassment to look up and see that everyone else was standing. Horrors for a teenage girl!
We recently had a program following a session of Scripture Memory Class for the K-6 grades. They were telling which were their favorite stories. One little boy said, "My favorite story was when Gideon went up against the Mennonites." Cracked me up, but most of the audience didn't even get it! (In case you don't get it either, he was up against the Midianites.)
A friend's son was learning the 7 C's of Bible HIStory as follows:
Creation
Corruption
Catastrophe
Confusion
Christ
Cross
Consummation
But when Charlie gets to the last "C", he says "constipation".
A family at church in Alabama lived next door to the Johnson’s. During one service their daughter, who was maybe three, got up to recite Psalm 23. When she got to the final verse she boldly proclaimed, “Shirley Johnson and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life.”
Then in Illinois when my church was in a temporary location and we sat on metal folding chairs in a school gym, a girl of about seven in the second row crossed her leg. Somehow her sandal flew off her foot directly towards the minister and landed about a foot from him. He stopped his speaking, picked up the shoe, returned it to the completely embarrassed girl, went back to the pulpit, and said “Well, I guess it’s better than a tomato.”
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