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15th December 2007, 06:36 PM
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Reps: 69,023,438 (power: 69,035) | | | i like meeting other pks too. but if u don't know something about the bible or something like that, people just won't like you..... well that's what happens at most parishes i've been too.....
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16th December 2007, 06:51 PM
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Reps: 26 (power: 0) | | | I've been a pastor's kid since I was two. I think the hardest thing for me is that as a pastor's kid, you learn how to fake a smile and hide your mistakes. I've been doing that all this year. It's hard when people don't know how hard you're hurting because you hiding it, but you don't know you're hiding it.
I don't know if that makes any sense at all, but it does for me.
And yeah, the moving around is hard too. We've moved four, next year it'll be five, times for my dad.
Another thing is raising support. Our church is a small chuch with mostly non-believing, non-donating Chinese. We have to raise most of our support so my dad can get payed. I don't know if anyone else has to do that, but it means we have to write many newsletters and thank you cards just so my dad gets payed. My dad also has to travel and go to other churches so they can support our church.
The last thing is all the drama in the church. As a pastor's kid, I get the pleasure of hearing most of the hatred, love, and disputes that go on in the church. It's not fun.  |
24th December 2007, 11:25 AM
| | the crazy priest's kid from down the lane
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Reps: 69,023,438 (power: 69,035) | | Originally Posted by chinagirl08  I've been a pastor's kid since I was two. I think the hardest thing for me is that as a pastor's kid, you learn how to fake a smile and hide your mistakes. I've been doing that all this year. It's hard when people don't know how hard you're hurting because you hiding it, but you don't know you're hiding it.
I don't know if that makes any sense at all, but it does for me.
And yeah, the moving around is hard too. We've moved four, next year it'll be five, times for my dad.
Another thing is raising support. Our church is a small chuch with mostly non-believing, non-donating Chinese. We have to raise most of our support so my dad can get payed. I don't know if anyone else has to do that, but it means we have to write many newsletters and thank you cards just so my dad gets payed. My dad also has to travel and go to other churches so they can support our church.
The last thing is all the drama in the church. As a pastor's kid, I get the pleasure of hearing most of the hatred, love, and disputes that go on in the church. It's not fun.
almost excact same thing with me! except my dad is a priest, he was a priest before i was even born.....
also i've moved 7 times..... *sigh*
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2nd January 2008, 11:59 AM
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doing or saying something that winds up in your parent's sermon from the pulpit! Then trying to slide down to the floor and disappear. |
7th January 2008, 11:00 AM
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Reps: 224,208 (power: 229) | | | yes. expectations. if i say something that might be slightly offensive to someone, they would be like "*gasp* how could a pastor's kid say that??"
yeah.. it's tough being a pastor's kid |
12th January 2008, 06:38 PM
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Reps: 6,239 (power: 0) | | | I don't think it's tough being a PK. The only thing I don't like is my older friends introducing me as a PK and not their friend. |
21st January 2008, 03:52 PM
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24th January 2008, 07:52 PM
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Reps: 764,535,182,527,354,880 (power: 764,535,182,527,376) | | Originally Posted by vwsmartcar Hey all,
I'm not the child of a pastor but I've often wondered (after watching the 7th Heaven T.V. series) what kids of pastors find the most difficult element. What do you find hardest about it?
First of all, my life was never REMOTELY life "7th Heaven," LOL.... Our house wasn't nearly so nice, my Dad doesn't butt into everyone's business uninvited, and my Dad did other things beside chase people down.
Actually, I liked nearly everything about being a "PK." And I really don't like to rag on it because it was an overwhelmingly positive experience and because complaining does nothing.
The ONLY real negative is that (as all who remember when I was WAY TOO active at CF), I am never at a lack for words. As a PK, everything you say and do reflects on Dad - and so I TRIED to be the 'good Christian' as much as I possibly could around the church and church members (is that bad? LOL), AND I kept my "questions" and other opinions to myself. Oh, at home - we discussed them all very openly (and my Dad not only welcomed but invited that) but I didn't in Sunday School or youth group (in fact, I didn't attend our church's youth group - I went to a different one at my friend's church).
The ONLY other thing I could mention is that it's kinda hard to date girls in your dad's church. Everyone REALLY watching, lol. But then there weren't any that I was especially interested in, anyway (did have one who was "interested" in me from about 10-16, however, LOL)
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30th January 2008, 01:29 PM
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Reps: 6,884 (power: 11) | | | Sure being a "PK" may be tough. But God obviously chose certain people to be pastors kids for a reason. What is that reason? I have no clue. But one of the things that I like the most, is the feeling of watching someone come to the Lord after something that my Dad preached helped bring God into their lives. I'm homeschooled so I don't get exposed to alot of other things that the average kid is exposed to, but I agree, being a PK has a bunch of hard times, but it also has its atvantages. |
7th March 2008, 04:49 AM
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Reps: 24,131 (power: 28) | | | I am not a pk but my husband is and here is what I have learned. He was never there for my husband. never spent much time with him. everytime the church doors were open my husband had to be there. people constantly judged and watched the pks. he is opinionated and if you question or challenge him on anything in the Bible he is always right. I am this mans daughter in law and i have seen him put his parishner better than his own family. He outright told me a bold face lie once and i caught him and not once did he ever apologize to me. once when i was under an order from G-d and I was submitting to G-d and he ordered me to do the opposite and I refused and he told me I was demon possessed and I told him to his face that I was sumitting to G-d not him. don't get me wrong I do love my inlaws but they bug me. He is a babtist and it bugs them to death that I am Jewish (I have accepted Yeshua as my savior) they think that their way is the only way. it bugs them that I don't celebrate Christmas and Easter. I have debates with my mother in law on the tanach and We frustrate each other. my husbands brother has totally backslidden and I think allot of it because of being a pk | | |
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