Monday, October 22, 2007

Drama Blunder, my bad

I wrote a post about a week or so ago about a Murder Mystery Dinner that our student ministries will be putting on to help raise money for outreach and different stuff, because we are a small church with really no youth budget at all, we have to raise all our money.
So we had our first meeting Sunday night were we got all the students together and who ever else wanted to help with putting on the interactive play. We had a great turn out and so I shared with them some things about the play and gave them several hand outs and then we determined who was doing what part in the play.
Now, I never acted this play before (it was actually the former youth guy, who is still attending our church and helping out that put this all together about 2 years ago), and so he gave me all the files and documents from the last time they did the play. In doing so he gave me a document of mob words that would help the people get into their mob/gangster part. Now my first mistake was not reading over all the material that he gave me, I mean, come on, they put the play on before and besides I know this guy they are great people, (but even great people make honest mistakes) and so you probably guessed it by now, we some how left a cuss word in one of the mob word sheets and one of the parents (who obviously prof-read) the material found it.
So needless to say I found a voice mail on my cell phone this morning reminding me that it's probably not a good idea to be giving our youth cuss words to read!! Yikes!!! Well, all I can say is sorry, and if this is the worst thing that happens during this play or for the rest of the year, then it's not that bad. I'm sure they have heard worse on movies and the media these days. I guess its just kind of funny coming from the youth pastor who has only been around now for about 3 months...I guess there's a chance I might be known as the cussing youth pastor in the community, wonder what kind of buzz that might create in the youth culture.

2 comments:

Beth/Mom2TwoVikings said...

Hang in there, Todd. It happens to the best of us. I was teaching Hamlet one time to 8th graders at a Lutheran school and forgot about the scene where Hamlet kisses his own mother to "prove" the madness he's faking. *sigh* Man, did THAT light up the phone lines!

Sojourner said...

Thanks for the encouragement Beth, I bet Mike got a kick out of it, huh?