Our church has always been supportive of our young people. We throw Senior graduation parties and take up donations amongst ourselves to give cash to young people about to go to college or enter the world of adults. The past couple of years, we have gathered about $500 per high school graduate, $20, $5 or whatever anybody feels like contributing. We give showers for couples getting married or having a baby. We give "poundings" for first homes. Poundings are food items, 4 pound bag of sugar, 5 pound bag of flour.......you get the picture.
I don't know why there is no shower here at home, probably because the girl lives in another town, but it is only 1 1/2 hour away, which in Texas, that ain't much.
After all, her parents are driving up there loaded with loot to go to the party. My issue is that nobody from church is invited, but their presents sure are. A young couple that used to live here was given a baby shower and they drove 4 hours to get here. So we support young people even if they have moved away. And yes, this couple has been back and came to church to show off the baby.
We have a very active group of ladies who would be delighted to "shower" this young couple with gifts, so I can only surmise that they didn't want to come home, but elected to have their shower elsewhere, but still wanted gifts from home. Tacky. Tacky. Tacky.
I just had to rant about this. Instead of sounding off at church, and possibly causing hard feelings, I came here. I knew ya'll would let me complain about this lack of manners.
Maybe by posting this, there will be some discussions at other churches, other families and might even prevent this selfish grab for goodies from some one else.
