At a Ladies Tea at our church, our pastor's wife told about the gifts that her husband chose to give their four young adult children last Christmas. He gave each of them and their spouses.... BURIAL PLOTS!!!! I'm not kidding!!!!
We have a wonderful pastor and this was a very generous gift - burial plots aren't cheap! Our church has a new beautiful cemetary and those lots were on sale last year. I'm sure to him it was a very good and practical gift. Not a practical joke, but a practical gift!
But it struck my funny bone for sure! One of his sons, after thanking his dad, said, "But Dad, how will I tell the guys at the office what I got for Christmas???!!!"
As my husband and I were laughing about this the other night, I said, "Only a Presbyterian pastor would give a gift like that!!! After all, Baptist pastors would never give burial plots to thirty somethings because the Rapture would make that completely unecessary!!!"
And then we thought about it even further, Baptist churches don't have cemeteries either!!
I hope that made you smile and didn't offend our dearly loved Baptists! But the whole thing made us laugh all week!
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Maybe it is just here in the south, but around here the only churches that HAVE cemeteries are either Baptist or Holiness. Of course, you are right, no Baptist pastor would give young adults burial plots!!
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