I mostly wear dresses to church. I got a beautiful pants outfit--all one piece, zips up the back, black with some beads---for $5.00 at Ross! I get the most compliments when I wear that! That outfit I save for church and other very special occasions (I got it for a Valentine's Dinner). So, when I say church clothes, I don't mean cost-wise, I mean, maybe fancier, I guess could be the word. As for cleavage---I don't have any, so I can't be guilty in that regard! :lol:
Ok...here is one for you. My friend who lives in...well...I won't make the whole state look silly....goes to a conservative church. Well...on service a girl came in wearing shorts so short she had two extra cheeks to powder. She was asked by a deacon to go home and change. She refused. The deacon had the police..yes...police escort her out. LOL. It is a very small church. The girl had been going to the church for years. The deacon said that he would not have done that to anyone else only her...because she should have known better. He said she did it out of rebellion. My friend was furious at whole circus act. My dh wears suits to church. My girls wear dresses. I wear dresses or skirts. I do have some pants that I will where. If I am in the toddler room I will wear pants. I have allowed my dd to wear pants to church also. I want them to be presentable but not hung up. The style of clothes varies at my church. Tonight...I am wearing a tee shirt and athletic pants. lol. It is wednesday night and I come as I am. That is pretty much what everyone does. We are not clothes oriented at my church really. No one has ever had to be talked to. Oh and I do make sure to always always show lots and lost of cleavage. I think that adds a little something. LOL...Just Kidding!!!! I show no cleavage...even if I tried I wouldn't be showing much. lol.
ok, this whole cleavage thing had me rolling! My hubby works in a large city, so he gets to see "lots" of different things. I always know it's bad when he calls and says "Thank you for not showing off stuff that isn't supposed to be shown off!" And for me, its hard not too. Not because I want to show them off, but I am a tripple d, so I can only do so much. No fitted shirts, no V-necks, and dresses are HORRIBLE to find. Grrrr, I hate it!
Oh my goodness, you guys are too funny! Becky, I would have a hard time with the sheer stuff- not at church! I dress pretty conservatively, and normally wear dress pants or broom skirts to church, but our church is pretty casual, so if the boys are in polo shirts and "pocket" shorts (not jersey/cotton ones)- then that is acceptable in 100 degree July/August! What I can't fathom is the loooowww hip jeans and hiiiiigh thong underwear- that to me is not attractive at ANY time on ANY woman!! My oldest son was quite distracted a while ago during service when the visitor in front of him had a 2 inch wide tattoo all the way around his neck. My son couldn't seem to stop staring! MT3
Gladly. If you can get my insurance to pay for it! Every time I have a baby, they get bigger and it NEVER goes away. But I was a D when I was 12, so I should have known this was going to happen
Jeannie is at vbs each evening this week, and the clothes I'm seeing are incredible. Too high shorts- on a 40-something mother-, a halter top so low in the back the woman's bra was entirely visible, a t-shirt that read 'freaky' across the front, and most of the same lunacy previously mentioned on this thread. All this is on the moms dropping kids off, not the vbs workers.
Hey, speaking of the security thing, my kids are attending VBS this week at my parents' church (where they do AWANAS at). This year, they're trying to implement a new system. The kids are signed in EVERY DAY. You also have to list on the sign-in sheet who will be picking them up. They are saying that ONLY the person on that list will be able to sign the kid out. Before, they all left helter-skelter from the sanctuary.
We have always had to sign in and out at vbs HERE. When we ran children's church we had it too, it was really important especially in the area we live in you never know if a parent is even aloud to pick the child up. There are custody arrangements and such so it is always important to sign in and out. Though there have been times when I was in a rush and thought gee cant one of the other kids sign them out but all is good, the teacher gets to know you and you sometimes make long lasting friendships that way! I have friends at my kids VBS church ( not our church but thats another LONG story hehe I am good with those! God never does things in short stories with me!) that are friends, real friends for years! We see one another and its like we have not been away, catch up on kids etc. One of the ladies I met through this vbs is the mom to one of my ds16's teachers at his school. I actually hope he stays on, but I also hope they get some really dynamic teaching staff for next year! New thread here Lol, wont go into it!
I have been told that is how our church was doing it also, until this year. Kind of scary really. I guess it's easy to want to trust people in church, but you just never know these days. Starting this year there will be a central sign in area where every child must be signed in and out each day and 4 VBS workers will be there at the table.
It's not so bad when you know the people, but there's always neighborhood kids, and people you DON'T know! We had a thing in the nursery a while back where you were given a tag, and only the person with the tag could pick up the kid. One day, the baby's grandpa came to get her without the tag. We all knew the guy very well, but I gave him a hard time just for fun. "WHERE'S YOUR TAG? How do I know you're not trying to kidnap this precious little girl? You look like a pretty shady character to me...." LOL!
Geeze, normally around here it's shorts that are too low you can see the top of their bycrackie, and in the front...well.... All because they want to show off their tatoo that's comin' outta the crack or the ___. As far as signing in and out of VBS I think it's a great idea. In fact, that makes it great the parent has to actually come get their kid.
Every year, for VBS, the person who signs the children in are the only ones who can pick up them up. All people participating in any church ministry involving children have to be Life Scanned through the police department. We make sure it is the complete scan so every little thing shows up and believe me, it does. I can't stand talking to people who can't participate in VBS. Once this lady was crying because she could not participate. She was a felon and accused of kidnapping her son. She came to the Lord and was living a better life but we couldn't allow her to participate. It can get tough some times. She said this isn't the first time this happened to her. Her crime will follow her for the rest of her life. Patty
