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Saturday, September 29, 2007

False Advertising is a No-No

So the event I went to this morning was billed in the following manner:

Healthy Relationships Workshop
Don't miss this congregational event, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm in the Social Hall. _________, nationally recognized UU consultant in healthy congregational relationships, will facilitate this important workshop.

* Explore the keys to healthy relationships in your life
* Strengthen healthy dialog with your family, friends & fellow congregants
* Build a common understanding of community and covenanting at UUCA


Now from that, wouldn't you too be surprised to get there, with 94 other people only to read on the main board "Welcome to Building Healthy Congregations"??

wtf?

I mean seriously... as many times as this event was put in the bulletin and on the web, it was never titled "Building Healthy Congregations". I figured that in 8 hours, we'd see the 3 points listed above. But to get there and have the label be switched on us? Now granted, I bet 95 people wouldn't have shown up if it'd been labeled "Building Healthy Congregations- an 8 hour workshop" I came because I wanted information about building healthy relationships in my life. Particularly in my personal life. I expected the congregational to be part of it, not the focus. So I sat for an hour and listened, just to see. Sure enough, the topic of congregation was the focus. Now I understand this is all part of the master plan for us to come back as a unified whole after all the changes and challenges associated with the old minister retiring, the interim minister shaking things up, and the new minister. But really folks. Bait and switch? C'mon.... I expect better than that from my church. The speaker made a point that we were all at the right place and time for where we were supposed to be. And that if we thought we weren't at the right place, we were welcome to flit like a butterfly to find our right place. So I left after an hour.

I just regret that I didn't get to sleep in without an alarm.

1 comments:

Xavier Ashe said...

Wow, that does suck. I probably would have stuck around (cause I'm a geek for that kind of thing), but with a bad taste in my mouth for sure. I had the same impression you had, but thought it curious that Anthony would hype it up so much.