Pot luck lessons

[capnator]

The pot luck/combined lunch can give a bit of an insight into your church. You know the one... everyone brings some food and puts it on the table after church.

Have a look around at what happens next time your church holds one. The table is filled with goodies, the prayer is said, on your marks, seeeet..........GO. Is there a rush for the food? Are those yummy looking pasties gone in the first 3 seconds? What about those gluten steaks, mmm i'd love one, pity there is only 25 and 100 people here, oh well I got one and it was nice.

Wow this table is crowded, i just gotta reach that pasta, awww heck someone else got it first, why are half the people going clockwise and the other half anti-clockwise??????

Hmmm that's a lot of food on my plate, I only got a little bit of each dish but it's built up real quick, I wonder if I am going to make it through all this stuff, now where I am going to sit... not with him he'll go on about the 144000 again, oh good I'll grab a seat near Bob he's always got heaps of great stories to tell.

Look at those two oldies been too busy chatting oh well they're going to be eating that icky looking brown rice (who the heck made that anyways, they need to go to cooking classes) and asparagus.

Well I made it through that lot... oh good someone is doing dishes, i'll just causually leave mine here she'll take care of it for me, I wonder what's for dessert.

Oh good Mrs Jones made her chocolate cake, i'm getting me a piece of that, and mmmm that slice looks tasty too..........

 

[g85]

I LOVE POT LUCKS... even if there's only brown rice

 

[reddogs]

Potluck is the chance to fellowship and most Adventist forget that and think its the buffet at Shoneys, I am in the civic association and they take us out so we can make plans/study projects over a meal and you should see how many contacts (and friends) I have made just from eating and talking at the same time..........:0o

 

[happywiththelord]

Our church has potluck every week. It is a wonderful time to meet up with friends that i havent seen all week and get caught up. The food is always yummy! It is getting to a point you can tell who made the dish without asking. you always have the staples, the same people bringing the same dish, week after week. Thats either a good thing, you know you want some, or a bad thing, pass it up like the plague! haha. Either way, its a wonderful time. What a great time of fellowship. We even get into Bible study a lot of the times. So church doesnt necessarily end when the sermon is over. Thats another Sabbath blessing. Further study! I love my church and church family!

 

[Eve4000]

LOL, I love potlucks, but I haven't been to a big one in a while. Ahh, the mad rush for food, being glad you're under 18 so you are in the front o the line after the younger ones.

 

[happywiththelord]

Does no one want to talk about there potlucks? Maybe not every church does them. Maybe nobody here goes to them. I was enjoying talking about this light subject. Ah, the joys of the mystery pot! Whats in it? Who made it? Take a chance! Hey, its not so bad!! Yum.

 

[Sophia7]

The church that I go to most of the time (we have three) has potlucks only once a month. I wish it were more often because it's nice to not have to think about what to make for lunch after church. I like potlucks for the fellowship. Most of them are not very healthy, though. We may not have caffeine or meat there, but we don't follow our own health message very well otherwise. One of our churches does have fairly healthy potlucks, but we're not there very often because my husband has to cover three churches--two each Sabbath--and I stay in one place with the kids so that they can have Sabbath School.

 

[BonnieBee]

I like potlucks!! Our church has one once a month, on the fourth Sabbath.

The youth group does the washing up! Half of it does the main dishes, and then the rest do the dessert dishes.

 

[Sophia7]

In our church the ladies do the washing. In one church in our last district, we convinced the men to wash dishes one week. That was very out of the ordinary, though, for our area. Not too many years ago, Adventist churches in our area separated the men and women in the sanctuary, with the men on one side and the women on the other. Fortunately, that was before we moved here. During potlucks, though, people still tend to divide themselves by gender at a couple of our churches.

 

[happywiththelord]

Wow! That seems old fashioned, to me at least. Our potlucks are every week. we have a sign up sheet, and 4 families are in charge of it every week. Those families kind of host it, meaning they make sure the food is put into the ovens to keep warm, and put all the food on the table. When potluck is over, they are in charge of dishes. People are asked to sign up and help out at least once every quarter. Especially if you stay and eat. It works out well, that way lots of hands in the kitchen makes light work. Our potlucks are a mixture of healthy/not so healthy foods. We range from people who eat meat during the week (but not at our potlucks, they are vegetarian potlucks) to vegans, to people who are raw foodists. so we run the gamit of selections. its nice!