Funny Experiences in Church Meetings (2)

Tried to add these to the existing post, but kept on getting errors, so I have added this as an extra post. None of these are recent, but they are all worth hearing.

Several years ago, we made friends with a Canadian family, Gordie and Kathleen Lagore, who now lead the East Vancouver Vineyard Church. Gordie had been a youth pastor, and was pretty much burnt out, so he and his family came to England for a year or so to get back on an even keel. We were newly married, and as they and I were new to what had been Abbie's church, we formed a good, if all too brief friendship with them.

Gordie was a master of words coming out not quite right. Here are three examples.

Once, when preaching, he meant to describe the church not as an organisation, but a living organism. Sadly, the two highlighted letters were missed out.

On another occasion when leading a meeting, he meant to ask a man by the name of Mr Peabody to come to the front to pray before the preacher spoke. The words that came out were, "Brother Praybody, come and pee for the pastor before he speaks."

Another time, when the young people had left for their groups, there were a few gaps in the meeting hall. So that the preacher had a sea of faces rather than empty seats, he wanted to encourage people to move to the front, naming some individuals including one with a very unfortunate name (bearing in mind the Canadian accent). "Could the two ladies with Harry Butts please come and sit nearer the front?"

More will follow...