I'm going to skip the intros because I'm so pissed right now I can't see straight. You all know I have four children and my children are my LIFE! And I entrust certain individuals to look after my children, specifically the Church my children go to. It's a local Pentecostal church in the city I live in. And when I trust them to watch after my children, I expect them to reciprocate a certain amount of concern. If I were watching their children, what would they expect of me? Tit for tat, right?
Well, apparently, several persons at the church they go to think it's OK to just disregard a parent. Blow them off as if they don't fucking matter! Well, FUCK THAT!
My children, aged 13, 10, and almost 7 have attended this church for nearly 2 years. In those two years they have participated in a number of functions, all under the "UMBRELLA" of the Pastor. Yes, I trust a preacher man... I USED to trust him.
Over the last three months, shady things have been happening at the church involving my children. For instance, during Church Youth Camp. Three days and three nights, my two oldest children were chaperoned by members of the same sex at the hotel in town. Why they rent a hotel rather than just meet up at the church everyday, I will never know. But they do. Women and girls in one room, men and boys in another. I do not have ONE problem with that. I do, however, have a problem when my daughter is told she will have a place to sleep, then all of a sudden, one of the women spill grape juice on my daughters side of the fucking bed, forcing her to sleep on the floor. OK... Accidents happen. But on night number two, one of the WOMEN... GROWN WOMEN, invited one of her friends to stay the night. This invited woman does NOT go to their church. Yet she was important enough to make my daughter sleep on the floor the next two nights as well. BULL SHIT! And to make matters worse, the invited woman started prank calling some GUY... Yeah, grown women and teen girls in the same room, and a GROWN woman prank calls a guy, as if it's funny or something. Are they not aware that teen girls are very impressionable and tend to look up to the elders of a church for guidance and model behavior. So I have to explain to my daughter when she arrives home that prank calls are immature and not in good taste. And I explain to her the right thing to do would be to tell the pastor. Pastors, like parents, do not ALWAYS know what's going on. A couple of weeks later, she tells me that she told the pastor and he said that behavior would not be happening anymore.
Second instance, my son, during youth camp, is at the water park with members of the church. But rather than getting wet at the water park in 99+ temperatures, he is made to play at the park with the equipment while the girls get to partake of the water elements. Then, without even a care or concern, I get a call from my son telling me that he was at the skate park riding some random person's skateboard and falls, knocking the air out of his lungs, bruising his elbow (about the size of a damn grapefruit) and scratching his back up. The church never called me. He called me and said, "If I look like I've been beat up, don't worry." Ummm, OK... WTF! More so, the adults were all under the pavillion, which is nearly 100 yards away from the skatepark. Granted, my son is 10 and could yell loud enough that he MIGHT draw attention if someone was taking off with him, but what about 'responsible adults' and their role in the events? Total lack of concern! I guess they think that abductions and child murders don't happen because in their delusional world full of holy ghosts and prayer that all children will be ok... Ummm, why don't they ask The Yates Children, or Caylee Anthony or the other 100,000+ children that are abducted/killed/sold how that whole Christian Belief is working for THEM! dammit!
Instance number 3... Oh yea, it gets better. My almost 7 year old started attending about 2 weeks ago. And in those two weeks he said he has a blast. I on the other hand find myself up at 11:21pm writing this fucking blog because the three of them were invited to a church party from 6pm to 9pm... and they JUST GOT HOME! They just walked through the FUCKING door! No call from anyone, except my youngest to tell me he's tired. Then, a woman gets on the phone and says, they will be home shortly. That was at 9:30... Ummm, where the hell is 'shortly' in 2 damned hours? I would hate to know what they consider a lengthy amount of time!
And to top it all off, I call the pastor at 11pm to inquire on the whereabouts of my children. His words, "I don't know." Let me fucking repeat that for you... "I DON'T KNOW"...
Ahem... let me calm down. FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!
He then tells me that he wasn't there tonight. Ummm, the pastor... wasn't there... at a church function... No, instead, the same WOMEN who were prank calling guys at Church camp were directing this shindig. OMFG!
Now I have to be the bad parent because I will not tolerate this church any longer. Their genuine neglect of my children has forced me to make the ultimate decision. I will not allow my children to attend that church any longer. I've had enough of their total lack of respect for me as a parent, their lack of respect for my children, who believe it or not, do get tired after a long day. I will, however, forgive them, because that is the christian thing to do... But I will not forget it. EVER! My children are my world and they better fucking believe that!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
~L
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