Bride-to-BeĪre you looking for a creative bridal shower for someone in your life? Planning a shower for a bride-to-be who has everything? Try a ‘pounding!’ This would be similar to a pantry shower if you specify so on the invite. Blessing them with pounds of non-perishables can lessen the refrigerator load. With a new family, you don’t know food allergies, refrigerator/freezer situations and other preferences. This is also a great alternative to meals. You don’t want people expecting to be invited inside while the family is still so new and possibly unpacking. In the case of a just-moved-in-family, make sure that the invite states it’s not a party. Organize your friends and neighbors and have them drop pounds of useful things at the family’s door between set hours on a Saturday morning. This makes the pounding unique and you can support local artisans at the same time! Other People You Can PoundĪ preacher isn’t the only one you can pound! New NeighborsĪ ‘pounding’ is a fun way to bless a family who has just moved to your area. Just include a little note or business card from where you got the items. You can pound the preacher with hand crafted: In this case the sky is the limit!ĭo you have a lot of craftsmen and women, artisans or DIYers in your congregation? Maybe you know of someone outside the church you can buy a handcrafted product from. If you prefer a different twist on ‘pound the preacher’ make it more of a practical joke (depending on your preacher’s personality). Grab some more great gift ideas from my list of Consumable Homemade Gifts. So when we pound the preacher for pastor appreciation month it Our preacher gets a small salary from the church, but I’m sure it’s not much when it comes to supporting his family of eight. He works a full-time job on top of his preaching duties. However, our little rural church cannot afford to pay a full-time salary to our preacher. They can easily provide a comfortable living for themselves and/or their family without worrying about firewood and meat. Today, many preachers receive a full-time salary from their congregation. One real-story account of this is in the book Caddie Woodlawn : a childhood favorite of mine. If the preacher did have animals, men would bring pounds of grain and hay as well for feed. And in those days it was much more affordable to raise your own food than buy it.įamilies of the church would surprise the preacher and show up with pounds of flour, sugar, butter, meat, firewood and whatever else they could spare. Especially if the preacher rode the circuit, he wasn’t home enough to care for animals to raise for food. To help with the preacher’s living, several times a year the congregation would perform a pounding. In the 1800s many preachers were poor rural folk who didn’t have great degrees and didn’t get paid a great salary – if any salary at all. ‘Pounding’ is fun any time of year, but we usually do it during pastor appreciation month.Īlso, check out Quiet Church Activities for Toddlers for your pastor’s kids…or your own! Where did Pound the Preacher come from? As the name suggests, pounds of something. Pound the preacher is simply a fun way for the congregation to gift a bunch of random stuff to the preacher. Not that pastors should be ignored the rest of the year! October is just a special time set aside to specifically acknowledge all the hard work they put in shepherding the flock. ![]() It’s a good thing that pastor’s are honored the whole month because it takes our church that long to organize any gift or little party! He reiterated this idea in Thessalonians 1 (5: 12-13) when he stated that that those who work hard among you should be held in the highest regard for their work.” ( Source.) , Paul began the concept of clergy appreciation when he stated that the elders of the church are worthy of a double honor. ![]() Pastor appreciation day is officially celebrated on the second Sunday of October. You may or may not be aware that October is pastor appreciation month. But it is so much fun! When I talk about pound the preacher I’m referring to a creative way to honor your church leader during pastor appreciation month.ĭisclaimer: If you are not attending a faith community with a leader you can ‘pound’ don’t run off! ‘Pounding’ is a fun way to show appreciation to anyone special in your life. ‘Pound the Preacher’ sounds a bit violent.
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