This past Sunday was busy around Platte Woods Church.
This past Sunday, Chris Cakes served 442 plates of pancakes. Each plate had at least 3 pancakes, which means there were a minimum of 1,342 pancakes served. However, since it was an “all you can eat” event, and since the Boy Scouts had some 100 young men spend Saturday night at the church who joined us for breakfast, my hunch is each plate averaged at least 4.6 pancakes. So, I think it is safe to say we served over 2,000 pancakes. Using the 2,000 pancakes number, and since we served from 8:00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. (4½ hours), we served on average 445 pancakes an hour. That’s making and serving over 7 pancakes a minute, or one pancake every 8 seconds. Of course Chris Cakes is able to handle such an undertaking, thank goodness! By the way our voluntary contributions for breakfast were $220.95 over the cost of the breakfast. This “profit” will be used by our Children Ministries program.
This past Sunday, I had the opportunity to speak to the Around 30’s Sunday School Class. My assignment was to share with them anything I felt like sharing. Having been a church bureaucrat for the 21 years before coming to Platte Woods, I chose the subject of “United Methodist Church Bureaucracy.” Although that sounds like a pretty dry subject, I had a good time talking about the way our church, district, conference, jurisdiction and denomination is structured. The class asked a lot of good questions. Two of the most important questions had to do with the structure and budget of Platte Woods Church. Do you know who our church officers are? Do you know the amount of the 2009 church budget? If you are interested in either of those questions, you can find the answers on the church’s Web site, where you will find a listing of OUR church committees with members. Under the Finance Committee you will find a link to the 2009 church budget. Thanks to Jennifer Simms, communications coordinator, for posting this information.
This past weekend – Saturday evening and Sunday morning – we had 914 individuals worship with us. Since our average worship attendance is 813 folks (2008 number), we had a very good “crowd.”
This past Sunday was busy around Platte Woods Church.
