{"id":76,"date":"2006-01-29T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/koldfusion.ca\/wordpress\/?p=76"},"modified":"2015-07-24T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T08:29:08","slug":"funny-church-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koldfusion.ca\/wp\/2006\/01\/funny-church-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Church Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank God for church ladies with<br \/>\ntypewriters. These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins<br \/>\nor were announced in church services:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_628\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/koldfusion.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/trespassers.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-628\" data-attachment-id=\"628\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/koldfusion.ca\/wp\/2006\/01\/funny-church-letters\/trespassers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/koldfusion.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/trespassers.jpg?fit=480%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;12.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;C960Z,D460Z&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;-62169984000&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;15.7&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0041666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"trespassers\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;trespassers will be baptized&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;trespassers will be baptized&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/koldfusion.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/trespassers.jpg?fit=480%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-628\" title=\"trespassers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/koldfusion.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/trespassers.jpg?resize=480%2C360\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/koldfusion.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/trespassers.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/koldfusion.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/trespassers.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">trespassers will be baptized<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211; Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian<br \/>\nChurch. Please use large double door at the side entrance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Fasting &amp; Prayer Conference includes meals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The sermon this morning: &#8220;Jesus Walks on the Water.&#8221; The<br \/>\nsermon tonight &#8220;Searching for Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 PM in<br \/>\nthe recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill Christ the King.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ladies, don&#8217;t forget the rummage sale. It&#8217;s a chance to get rid of<br \/>\nthose things not worth keeping around the house. Don&#8217;t forget your<br \/>\nhusbands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due<\/p>\n<p>to a conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile<br \/>\nat someone who is hard to love. Say &#8220;Hell&#8221; to someone who doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\ncare much about you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Don&#8217;t let worry kill you off &#8211; let the Church help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Miss Charlene Mason sang &#8220;I will not pass this way again,&#8221; giving<\/p>\n<p>obvious pleasure to the congregation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; For those of you who have children and don&#8217;t know it, we have a<br \/>\nnursery downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all<br \/>\nthe help they can get.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for more<\/p>\n<p>transfusions. She is also having trouble sleeping and requests tapes<br \/>\nof Pastor Jack&#8217;s sermons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Rector will preach his farewell message after which the choir<br \/>\nwill sing &#8220;Break Forth Into Joy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the<br \/>\nchurch. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall.<br \/>\nMusic will follow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be &#8220;What Is<br \/>\nHell?&#8221; Come early and listen to our choir practice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of<br \/>\nseveral new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be<br \/>\nrecycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased<br \/>\nperson you want remembered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The church will host an evening of fine dining, super<br \/>\nentertainment and gracious hostility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM &#8211; prayer and medication to follow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind.<br \/>\nThey may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park<br \/>\nacross from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM. All<br \/>\nladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B.S. is<br \/>\ndone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation<br \/>\nwould lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next<br \/>\nSunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please<\/p>\n<p>use the back door.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare&#8217;s Hamlet<br \/>\nin the<br \/>\nchurch basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to<br \/>\nattend this tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Associate Minister unveiled the church&#8217;s new tithing campaign<br \/>\nslogan last Sunday: &#8220;I Upped My Pledge &#8211; Up Yours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services: &#8211; Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. 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