These were some words the pastor spoke… she will eventually hang herself, give her enough rope, and she will… let her fail. She will have to quit then… I can’t fire her; it will look bad on me…
17. Tree Town (Part 6)
I found myself in an impossible situation. I knew two sides of one story and now so did my husband. But there was really nothing we thought we could do with that information at the time.
15. Tree Town (Part 5)
After reading my last post, you may be thinking; surely, she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.How could she know all this inside information? Don’t…
13. Tree Town (Part 4)
Never doubt that there’s a “good ole boys” club in the SBC. It’s real.
12. Tree Town (Part 3)
October 11, 2016, was my first day on the job as Children’s Coordinator. It was a Tuesday. I was so excited.
11. Lament (stand-alone)
Things I didn’t know… I didn’t know leaving a church meant leaving your friends. I didn’t realize that leaving a church meant that all the people you shared life with would just disappear.
10. Tree Town (Part 2)
We found the people to be incredibly friendly, the children’s programs were excellent, we found a Sunday School class that we loved and quickly made friends. All our earlier qualms had all but disappeared.
9. Tree Town (Part 1)
If this makes any sense, the only way I can describe it is that the church was our dream church and also our greatest nightmare at the same time. It had friendly people, the children’s programs, a kind pastor, it was Southern Baptist, but it was stuck in time
8. Division Part Two
The business meeting started, and the pastor turned it over to us. My husband explained to the church that we felt like it was time for us to leave the church and that we were resigning our positions, effective immediately
7. Division
He was a dynamic man. He preached long and loud. We eventually realized that he preached the same sermon over and over, he just changed the title.