I'm in a bad mood. Let me explain.
I know I shouldn't get so frustrated, but sometimes there are people at church who don't get it.
Every year our church does certain things like we put together Thanksgiving baskets for a local food pantry. And then for Christmas we do Christmas gifts for the food pantry to hand out. All good things. And we have generous members who help out.
Recently we have started helping out a local school. This fall with the approval of the board and the pastor we collected facial tissue and hand sanitizer and pencils to give them to start the year.
Then one of the members whose wife works at this school said they were starting a food pantry and asked if we could donate food for their pantry. And we did for a few months. Then the wife came and told the pastor another church was going to donate too and they agreed since we do a Christmas Bazaar with a major cookie walk, the Thanksgiving Baskets, and the Christmas gifts, we would not feel obligated to give lots of food to the pantry and let the other churches who agreed to cover these two months.
Today we were blindsided because the guy made an announcement without the approval of the pastor or the council wanting us to donate food since the other churches didn't step up.
I get that it is for a good cause. And I don't doubt that the families need it. But when does it stop? I don't like the way he said it to us, trying to guilt us into giving donations. I honestly think if he doesn't stop doing this, we are going to have donor fatigue.
Thanks for letting me grouse and complain. I know it won't solve the problem, but this is a safe outlet for me.
Grousing
November 11th, 2018 at 10:24 pm
November 11th, 2018 at 11:24 pm 1541978699
I am bombarded with requests but after giving to worthwhile causes ( I carefully research), I often then am bombarded with mail, calls or emails from many other places.
I used to work at a place and they supported 2 specific charities each year but as time went on new causes were added with new staff wanting their cause supported and it diluted any good we were doing in supporting 1 or 2 specific groups. If you can believe it we heard from original causes asking why our normal level of support was not kept up.
I agree many could use the help and this time of year makes me upset as it NEVER seems like enough and the guilt push for the holidays is just starting.
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Especially since you have no reason to feel guilty!
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