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Originally Posted by HERn
Well, I'm hesitant to write about this, but as a family we're facing our first conflict in our new church. Our slightly mentally handicapped daughter has been attending the high school youth group and was hoping to attend the upcoming high school retreat. The youth workers said she was to immature and would not accept the registration fees from my wife. When my wife offered to drive our SUV and chaperone our daughter she was told by the youth workers that they did not want to put my wife out. I wrote an email to our senior pastor and we have a meeting with him on Monday. We did not ask him to change the decision, but let him know that we are offended, hurt and angry. My wife spent an hour on the phone talking to the youth worker in tears. I know that people have different capacities when it comes to accommodating mentally handicapped people, but for God's sake this is the body of Christ where we are supposed to care the weaker members, right? Sorry for the dirty laundry, but this is where we are at. I don't think we will leave, but our hearts are sad.  |
Hi HERn
Thanks for sharing your situation with us. It is not easy to share personal stuff.
I can't offer any specific advice and I don't think you are asking for any advice anyway. I do like to say that in this age, while sin is present, we cannot expect any churches to be
perfect. However there are
model churches (1 Thessalonians 1:7). (Not easy to tell whether one church is a model church)
Similarly marriage and working life will not be perfect:- we will experience conflicts. We do not divorce our spouses simply because of our first argument nor do we quit our jobs simply because of one bad colleague.
May God guide your family and may all parties grow spiritually through this matter.