First Things First

The parson stopped at the Quik Trip, America’s Number One Convenience Store stop, to indulge himself a cup of cappuccino following a morning with the CEO of a computer geek firm. The parson was seeking advice on an internet café his church was setting up. The project would allow indigent students from the high school just up the street to use the internet for school work, and, additionally, allow the poor unemployed to apply for jobs online.

He was exiting the store when Winston Mansfield approached the door to enter.

“Morning, Parson,” said Winston, “I’m glad I to see you. I’d mentioned to Bertha last night I wanted to talk to you.”

“What’s up?” asked the parson, as he stepped out of the way of the door and into some shade.

Winston followed and said, “Well, I know this is kind of delicate, but we need to kind of standardize things with the youth. I know you want us to involve more people in the workings of the ministry, but Sunday night we had almost thirty kids there.”

“That’s great,” said the parson.

“Not quite,” said Winston. “We had thirty kids but Eleanor Rollins, that lady who joined recently, was in charge of furnishing the meal.”

“That’s great, too,” said the parson.

“It’s not great when we didn’t have enough food.”

“Did anybody tell Eleanor how many kids come?”

“I don’t know. It seems to me we need people involved that know these things without the youth workers having to guide them.”

“How many members do we have in the church, Winston?” the parson asked.

“I don’t know, Parson. I guess we have a little over a hundred on the rolls. What’s your point?”

“My point, Winston, is that two things happened last night. One was you ran short of food. The second was a number equivalent to over one-third of the church showed up at the youth meeting. And instead of celebrating the one you’re bitching about the unimportant happening.”

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eeeks
how often have i done just that............