Potluck Fiasco: A satire on a ministerial expectation

By Dan Steinbeck and Carla Steinbeck

Sweet Row Baptist Church is ready for their monthly Potluck, but the pastor is prohibited from being there to pray over the meal. What will happen to the event and are future meal events threatened? A 'crisis' becomes a surprising opportunity for the small church to find a new journey when it came to meal

• Language: English
• Publisher: KDP Publishers
• Release date: Apr 8, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869302854

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Dedication

To all the shepherds who bear the responsibility

of making sure each church-function meal is sufficiently

blessed so their flocks may be dutifully fed.

Contents

Dedication

Chapter 1 – The issue

Chapter 2 – Informing the pastor

Chapter 3 – A dinner out with friends

Chapter 4 – Reflections of the evening

Chapter 5 – The topic investigated

Chapter 6 – The meeting in the pastor’s office

Chapter 7 – Prayer quandary

Chapter 8 – October Potluck

About the Author and Illustrator

Chapter 1 – The issue

Hi Edith, Renee Portland said excitedly.

Good evening, Renee. I brought those ‘angel eggs’ you like, said Edith Murrow as she entered the fellowship door carrying a translucent egg container.

‘Angel eggs,’ were what the women of Sweet Row Baptist Church determined was a more appropriate Christian description of hen products, because they couldn’t bring themselves to say, in church of all places, what others would call ‘deviled eggs.’

Wonderful! Renee gushed. I brought ham slices in an orange marmalade glaze.

Uhm-hmm, Edith said, with a smiling shrug.

Tonya Everman, the self-proclaimed church ‘Potato Queen’ entered and said her usual Potluck night greeting: I have a new dish I want everyone to try. I hope no one is disappointed.

Ha. With your creative and tasty potato dishes? I don’t see that ever happening, Renee said.

Widower Hank Schultz brought a clear plastic-wrapped foam plate of sliced home-grown Beefsteak tomatoes. He placed them on the counter quietly as the women jabbered, and sauntered to take a seat with several men.

Several other women and men set their meal offerings at the table so the women could arrange them.

Deacon Vincent Ackle started visiting with Hank, while his wife Lucy helped the women arrange the food table.

Sweet Row Baptist was buzzing with excitement. It was, of course, the monthly fellowship meal event simply known as Potluck.

Susan Zeboni brought a crock pot full of an aromatic pasta. As Edith Murrow grabbed the crock pot to place it on the serving table, Susan introduced two guests she and her husband brought.

Barry and I invited our neighbors, Scott and Shirley Smallborn, Susan said.

Pleasantries were exchanged and several seated church members