Murphy’s Law for Children’s Ministry Workers

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Murphy’s Law

Murphy’s Law for Children’s Ministry Workers

Murphy’s Law cautions, “If anything can go wrong, it will.” Those of us in the Children’s Ministry know this to be true. Here are a few more of Murphy’s Laws for those who work with children:

1. Children who are deaf and have sight problems will always sit at the back of the class.

2. An emergency will always occur when the Children’s Pastor is on vacation.

3. Any item dropped by a child boarding your church bus or van will always roll under the vehicle to the exact center.

4. The likelihood of the resource room not having an item you need is in direct proportion to the need of that item on that particular Sunday.

5. You will wear your tackiest suit or dress and have the worse “bad hair day” ever on the Sunday morning you discover that classroom pictures are being taken for the new Church Directory.

6. Any Sunday it snows, you will not know that church has been called off until you arrive at the church after having almost killed yourself trying to get there on time.

7. The most undisciplined children never miss.

8. The dirtiest children always want to sit on your lap.

9. The one Sunday you decide to “just let the kids color,” will be the Sunday the Senior Pastor visits your class.

10. No matter what you do, someone will be against it and no matter what occurs, someone will claim to have known it was going to happen.

11. Any liquid spilled behind a puppet stage will always land on the newest and most expensive puppets you have.

12. After you “try” to do Gospel illusions with rope tricks…You will always have mothers calling you saying, “My son just tried choking himself half to death, because he said you did it in your object lesson.”

# 12 Submitted by:

David Blankenship
Shady Grove Baptist Church

13. The day you decide your going to stop going to a certain child’s house because they haven’t rode the bus in months is the day the parent calls the Pastor and says my child wanted to come to church today abut your church bus didn’t stop at their house today.

Submitted online 5/18/03

14. The day you wear your best coat and shoes, the bus springs an antifreeze leak and you have to stop every half hour to climb up and fill it with water.

Submitted online 10/18/03

New! The The Law of Promotions - Submitted online 06/06/06 by:

Rachel Stratman
Bus Captain
South Middlesex Baptist Church
Framingham, MA

1. The interest the children have in any promotional item you buy is inversely proportional to the cost of that item….the MORE it costs, the LESS they care about it. Get it for a nickel, and the whole bus will FIGHT over it!

2. The number of students who complete requirements to obtain the latest promotional prize is always exactly one more than the number of prizes you have.

3. It is never wise to plan a promotion that depends on the weather: On Balloon Sunday, it will rain; on Cotton Candy Sunday, the humidity will reach 100%; on Sno Cone Sunday, the temperature will dip below 50 degrees; On Kite Sunday, the wind will disappear! Who says the Lord has no sense of humor!

4. You will forget it’s “Wash the Bus” Sunday on the day you wore your newest outfit/shoes, AND got your hair permed the day before!

5. Closely related to #4: The day you pray that the riders will FORGET it’s “Wash the Bus” Sunday is the day every rider you ever knew for YEARS will show up, ready to smother you with suds and hit you with water balloons! (Sigh)

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