Comments on: Are You Too Poor for This Church?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 01 May 2019 23:18:16 +0000

And that Joe Marinich guy I must bless. Those are some awesome tips. Ask for zoo passes for Christmas and take lunch meat with you on vacations. Brilliant. Utterly brilliant. God bless you and keep you. I know you have faith. God bless you and keep you.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 01 May 2019 23:09:22 +0000

I can totally relate to Brandie’s comment. I love my church’s sermons and doctrine, and the church does charitable things. But I’ve had the sense of not being wealthy enough to be friends with my peers for a long time. How do I know what God’s priorities are? Stay faithful to a good-doctrine church you’re too poor to make friends at? Or move on? I’ll certainly pray about it and see where faith & prayer lead me.

By: Deanna

Deanna — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:36:06 +0000

It’s so good to hear that I’m not the only one struggling with this. My church just did a 5 day summer trip which my kids could not go on because it was $500 each. Now, two months later, they are asking for $200 for a weekend retreat. I’m beginning to feel like I am too poor for my church and I’m just not sure this is how it is suppost to be.

By: Brandie

Brandie — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 18:46:12 +0000

Wow! I can totally relate to the above. We are in a church we love doctrinally, but financially it’s stressful. Our kids can’t go on the trips and youth group itself costs now. It cost me two hundred dollars for them to attend plus they constantly have the kids go to movies and restaurants, paintball and laser tag. With three teens this is way out of our ability. Choir trips are about $700, ski trips are $500, etc. and there are at least three of these a year per kid. I have five kids. They also do charity work, but always stop at restaurants on the way home, so my boys can’t even do that. So my boys have started working just to be able to hang out with friends. They feel they have to buy expensive clothes too. And then there’s the expensive sports program. This is how the parents hang out, so I’m excluded from social life as well. What’s killing me is my kids are starting to see this as normal and are wondering what is wrong with us as their parents. My girls are also beginning to be excluded because of their clothing. On the other hand we love the elders and the sermons. Their heart is in the right place, it’s just they were born rich, therefore they truly see themselves as average. They do offer charity, but my husband and I don’t want to take hundreds of dollars out of the deacon fund for entertainment. That should go to real needs. Not sure what we’ll do. My kids hearts have been won by the wealth and to leave would be a huge trial for them. Thanks for writing. I have felt very alone in this.