It's Not My Yob

It’s Not My ‘Yob’

“It’s not my job” is a time worn expression that is not yet worn out it seems.
In a recent conversation with an unnamed official at Bethany Bible College we found the expression to be born out in reality. It went like this: he called HQ and requested a database of names for our Wesleyan pastors. He was told that nothing like that existed …. (or .. it’s not my yob) By perseverance Bethany was able to secure such a data base and continue on in their role of recruiting, training, and preparing men and women for ministry. They were under the impression that HQ would help them to achieve their goals of providing pastors for our denomination …. But there seems to be some confusion about (is it job descriptions) oh …. But then it just could be …. It’s not my yob.

It would be great to solve the question of who is working for who … and what we are trying to achieve with all this hard work …. Ooops …. “It’s not my yob”

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Who's on first?

Who's on first?

I love to laugh at even the well worn humor ......

But my latest call to HQ in IN turned out to not be funny at all. I had a couple of questions about why we close churches instead of putting pastors in them. So ... my first question was how many pastors do we have serving as senior pastors in the U.S.
One office (unnamed) said that they did not have any idea, but if I would call another office (identity protected) that they could tell me. After several connects and a few "dis-connects" the conclusion was ... "no one knows". In my wildest (well not 'wildest', dreams) I would never have imagined that at our international hq. no one would know that info.

After several calls and offending a few people in office (not to be confused with in 'their' office)

I began to think of the old humorus ..... Who's on First .....

Except ........ It Ain't Funny (perhaps ... noone)

Running on fumes

Just saw the documentary of Jimmy Doolittle's bombing run over Tokyo. It reminded me of my thoughts these last few years of the Wesleyan church "running on fumes ". The reports we get are glowing, however with even the most basic survey of the fuel supply ... it is evident that we are running on fumes.

Several of the districts that I am personally familiar with simply close churches that they can't find competent pastors for. What is the "end-game"? We close churches with (at times) good or even great locations, in good communities because the d.s. cannot come up with a pastor. if this ain't runnin on fumes .......... what is?