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You have probably seen many of these before, but how about a summer rerun?
They're Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank God for the church
ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually appeared in church
bulletins or were announced at church services:
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*The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. *
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*Scouts* *are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be
recycled Proceeds will be used to cripple children. *
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*The sermon this morning: * *'Jesus Walks on the Water.'* *The sermon
tonight *'Searching for Jesus.' *
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*Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those
things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.*
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*Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.*
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*Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not pass this way again,' giving obvious
pleasure to the congregation.*
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*For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery
downstairs.*
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*Next Thursday there will be try-outs for the choir. They need all the help
they can get.*
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*Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church.
So ends a friendship that began in their school days. *
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*A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music
will follow.*
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*At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?'
Come early and listen to our choir practice.*
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*Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several
new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.*
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* Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person
you want remembered.*
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*The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and
gracious hostility. *
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*Pot-luck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.*
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*The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be
seen in the basement on Friday afternoon. *
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*This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from
the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin. *
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*The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would
lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.*
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*Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM . Please use the
back door. *
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*The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church
basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this
tragedy.*
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*Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please
use large double door at the side entrance. *
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*And this one just about sums them all up * *The Associate Minister
unveiled the church's new campaign slogan last Sunday: 'I Upped My Pledge -
Up Yours.'*]
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,062 posts)underpants
(182,632 posts)2naSalit
(86,378 posts)I'd be suspicious if they all came from the same church.
Doodley
(9,048 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,605 posts)Aristus
(66,294 posts)Come Thursday Night and watch us kill Christ the King!"
gopiscrap
(23,726 posts)grumpyduck
(6,225 posts)Thanks for posting.
murielm99
(30,717 posts)We need all the laughs we can get these days.
crickets
(25,952 posts)NNadir
(33,477 posts)LAS14
(13,769 posts)rurallib
(62,387 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,799 posts)"Last Saturday's Wine and Cheese party was a great success. Would the person who backed into the bishop's car afterward please contact the church office."
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Canoe52
(2,948 posts)and he showed it to me. The front said I Upped My Pledge the back said Up Yours
homegirl
(1,427 posts)I really needed a few good laughs this afternoon.
Fla Dem
(23,593 posts)Awarded to any post that actually makes me Laugh Out Loud. Laughed at several of them. Thanks!