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7 hours ago, nastyhobbitses said:

OK, can someone with more background in Christian-ese/Christian practice explain to me what the fuck "ministry" is supposed to be? Because I think a lot of fundies seem to label everything they do down to taking a dump a "ministry". 

This is true.  And Teri's ministry today was to tell people not to forget to take a quarter when they shop at Aldi.

Apparently Nathan and Melanie do not shop there.   Either she forgot to mention them or they have not been assimiliated into Aldi Collective. 

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They have to be trolling us. I mean - this was a grocery list dressed up as a post.

Without even a mention of scheduling some time to pray over what needs to be bought.

Or an Amazon affiliate link.

What's next, a detailed explanation of how to brush your teeth? "some folk put the toothbrush under the tap before they add the toothpaste. However we prayed over this extensively during Bible time as that's when most major family decisions are made and Steve put it on our hearts to put the toothpaste first, then run the toothpaste under the tap. We have found that this maximised toothbrush hydration during brushing. This is the way we do it for Chris children when OfChris is out birthing yet another one, and John and OfJohn do it this way too, see how I mention them prominently to show you I don't hate OfJohn for having f*n, and joseph and OfJoseph ditto, and I'm too Christian to mention which one of our offspring has yet to be blessed with the wisdom of how to do it right, but surely you can read between the lines who the little rebels are on this. Telling you this is an important part of my ministry to the Lord, if I couldn't write insightful posts such as these to guide lesser souls I really don't know how I could possibly justify my entire existence. Trusting in Jesus, Teri."

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8 hours ago, Black Aliss said:

t's basically anything you do where other people will say of you, "She has a servant's heart."

I love Tim Hawkins' take on that phrase - "don't say that to me, because I know when you do I'm about to start stacking chairs." 

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I wonder if Anna and Mary will eat picnic eggs on their ministry trip? Too bad they didn't time the trip to encompass Easter Sunday Resurrection Day.

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11 hours ago, Black Aliss said:
12 hours ago, nastyhobbitses said:

OK, can someone with more background in Christian-ese/Christian practice explain to me what the fuck "ministry" is supposed to be? Because I think a lot of fundies seem to label everything they do down to taking a dump a "ministry". 

Yesterday a friend and I were ranting about "hobby" ministries: The Church motorcycle club rides, the ladies craft club, the volleyball league and even the holiest of holies the kids sports ministry [which thankfully my church does NOT have]. We agreed that we loathe these. Loathe isn't quite strong enough, but hate is too strong. This is Amway-ish "Lifestyle Evangelism" [never make a friend you can't use, right?] so you get to know them like this by doing something they enjoy with them (and hopefully you paid the fee to make that wreath for them) and in time you are secure enough in your friendship with them to present the gospel.  So, maybe the Maxwell girl-women are off teaching clowning and balloon animal-twisting to other SAHD so they, too, can escape the house, MINISTER to children and families in this way. 

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What place accepts a quarter in a cart?! Last time I was shopping on that side of the world, you had to use a $1 or $2 coin. In Europe, a 50 cent piece is the minimum required currency. The way she talks about needing to use change to get a cart makes me think she is some sort of alien who has never shopped in her life.

I'm surprised they didn't find some Christian shopping cart chip (Amazon link affiliate!) to hawk off

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"Christopher and Anna Marie and John and Chelsy also like shopping at Aldi."  --Teri Maxwell

That is one hell of a sentence.  look, i get that Teri was a chemistry major (i think, but it was one of the sciences), but she had to have taken some mandatory English.  i haven't taken an English course myself since 1989, but i'll take a stab at it.

Christopher and Anna Marie like shopping at Aldi, and so do John and Chelsy.

Christopher and Anna Marie, as well as John and Chelsy, like shopping at Aldi.

Anna Marie likes shopping at Aldi, so she encouraged Chelsy to go there, too.

Christopher's family favors Aldi, so John and Chelsy took a page from their book and follow suit.

But since writing well can be F*N, Shevehova will never allow Teri to get any better at it, lest she make an idol of it.   Someone get that poor woman a Pepsi.

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Y’all! This shows grandmas in their 80’s can take good pictures. GiGi took this when she and Mom were out shopping.

Seriously, Sarah, WTF? First, enough with the y'alls, already. You are not a Southerner.

Second, enough with the ageism, already. Don't wait until you are old to discover how damned offensive you are being with those comments. What, are we supposed to be impressed that Gigi has both a steady hand and a sound mind, enough so that she can press the little white dot on your iPhone? I know grandmas in their 80's who not only take good pictures, they can use  the manual settings on their DSLR to take exactly the picture they want. How about youtry treating your grandmother like just another human being for a change?

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4 hours ago, VooDooChild said:

Teri went to college and that's how she writes?!  

Yeah, it's so bad, it made me wonder if Mary or Anna actually wrote it. Teri must be losing it. 

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There are still places where you have to use a coin to get a cart?! Wow, I thought that went the way of the dinosaurs sometime in the 90s...

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That post fangirled Aldi so much you would think it was a boy band.

A few Aldis have been opened here but I refuse to drive 15 miles to check out a grocery store. Sprouts, Trader Joe’s and Ralph’s are all I need.

The only way I think Anna and Mary are helping a non-relative is if the husband died or is ill and the mother of eleventy kids need help. I don’t see them being allowed to stay in a home where the mom is bedridden and the dad is able-bodied. Too much of a chance of someone sinning since they seem to push the men cannot control themselves narrative. Then again, I don’t see them being allowed to participate in a group mission with others their age becusse they may become tainted by someone else on the mission. Again, are we sure Jesse didn’t go as well as a chaperone? 

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My sister has been an Aldi fan girl for about 15 years now. Back then people thought Aldi was kind of lame. But it’s taken off in the past few years and I’m coming across many more fangirls/fanboys these days. 

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7 hours ago, Foudeb said:

They have to be trolling us. I mean - this was a grocery list dressed up as a post.

Without even a mention of scheduling some time to pray over what needs to be bought.

Or an Amazon affiliate link.

What's next, a detailed explanation of how to brush your teeth? "some folk put the toothbrush under the tap before they add the toothpaste. However we prayed over this extensively during Bible time as that's when most major family decisions are made and Steve put it on our hearts to put the toothpaste first, then run the toothpaste under the tap. We have found that this maximised toothbrush hydration during brushing. This is the way we do it for Chris children when OfChris is out birthing yet another one, and John and OfJohn do it this way too, see how I mention them prominently to show you I don't hate OfJohn for having f*n, and joseph and OfJoseph ditto, and I'm too Christian to mention which one of our offspring has yet to be blessed with the wisdom of how to do it right, but surely you can read between the lines who the little rebels are on this. Telling you this is an important part of my ministry to the Lord, if I couldn't write insightful posts such as these to guide lesser souls I really don't know how I could possibly justify my entire existence. Trusting in Jesus, Teri."

 Telling you this is an important part of my ministry to the Lord, if I couldn't write insightful posts such as these to guide lesser souls I really don't know how I could possibly justify my entire existence. Trusting in Jesus Steve, 

Teri."

fixed that for ya, and now the strikeout won't stop, lol

Granbych

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On ‎6‎/‎19‎/‎2018 at 4:37 PM, IReallyAmHopewell said:

Ministry trip vs mission trip. How is a mission not a ministry? Maxwellian semantics.

I hope these two are on their own and not with some hovering chaperone, but I'm doubting. Let's hope they get to have actual FUN and remember not to blog that so that maybe it can happen again.

How would they know what fun is?  Wait a minute, I forgot--their idea of fun is 180 degrees away from mine.

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I shop at Aldi once in a while. (There's one nearby.)  I am not going to shade Teri for shopping there, but wow that post really needed to be reworded.  It could have tolerable to read if it hadn't been so damn clunkily written.  

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I like aldi. Where else can I get 6 bottles of acceptable wine for 20 dollars? Other than that? Mankind invented Costco for a reason. 

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I would have thought that the Titus 2 blog would have ended by now. But nope, it's going until the wheels fall off apparently. 

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5 hours ago, nomoxian said:

What place accepts a quarter in a cart?! Last time I was shopping on that side of the world, you had to use a $1 or $2 coin. In Europe, a 50 cent piece is the minimum required currency. The way she talks about needing to use change to get a cart makes me think she is some sort of alien who has never shopped in her life.

I'm surprised they didn't find some Christian shopping cart chip (Amazon link affiliate!) to hawk off

At most grocery stores in the U.S. you don't need any kind of coin for the shopping carts, so Teri probably had never encountered that before. Aldi is the only one I know of with that requirement. A quarter is the largest common coin here: we don't really use $1 coins or even 50-cent pieces. 

I did read that in the U.K. people sometimes use a "trolley token," which to my U.S. ears sounds terribly quaint, lol. 

I shop at Aldi for canned/boxed goods a lot. And also their imported German chocolate. I'll eat American chocolate in a pinch, but it tastes weird. At Christmas the Aldi has all kinds of European chocolate: Advent calendars and Santas and other goodness. And year-round dark chocolate, hazelnut chocolate, white chocolate...

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5 hours ago, socalrules said:

That post fangirled Aldi so much you would think it was a boy band.

A few Aldis have been opened here but I refuse to drive 15 miles to check out a grocery store. Sprouts, Trader Joe’s and Ralph’s are all I need.

The only way I think Anna and Mary are helping a non-relative is if the husband died or is ill and the mother of eleventy kids need help. I don’t see them being allowed to stay in a home where the mom is bedridden and the dad is able-bodied. Too much of a chance of someone sinning since they seem to push the men cannot control themselves narrative. Then again, I don’t see them being allowed to participate in a group mission with others their age becusse they may become tainted by someone else on the mission. Again, are we sure Jesse didn’t go as well as a chaperone? 

Closest Aldi that I know of is in Cerritos down past the mall. Saw it when I went to dinner before school one night. Like you Ralphs, TJ's and Sprouts, and the farmers markets are good enough for me. 
Supposedly we're going to get a Grocery Outlet where the Haggens/Albertsons used to be. But such a NIMBY uproar happened that I wonder if they pulled out. In the meantime there are 3 Ralphs close. 

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5 hours ago, singsingsing said:

There are still places where you have to use a coin to get a cart?! Wow, I thought that went the way of the dinosaurs sometime in the 90s...

We haven't had it in forever here in SoCal, but now that vast amounts of the shopping carts are ending up being taken down into our riverbeds, construction sites, encampments etc. it's becoming more and more common.

(That plus the horrible, obnoxious - especially with a wheelchair or walker, as well! - yellow magnetic bump things that bring carts to a grinding halt. Many are doing both now)

It's such a pain :-/  Especially because unlike in Europe, most places don't seem to know how to install them so you can still actually push the cart in a reasonable manner.

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38 minutes ago, Lisafer said:

At most grocery stores in the U.S. you don't need any kind of coin for the shopping carts, so Teri probably had never encountered that before. Aldi is the only one I know of with that requirement. A quarter is the largest common coin here: we don't really use $1 coins or even 50-cent pieces. 

I did read that in the U.K. people sometimes use a "trolley token," which to my U.S. ears sounds terribly quaint, lol. 

I shop at Aldi for canned/boxed goods a lot. And also their imported German chocolate. I'll eat American chocolate in a pinch, but it tastes weird. At Christmas the Aldi has all kinds of European chocolate: Advent calendars and Santas and other goodness. And year-round dark chocolate, hazelnut chocolate, white chocolate...

I've heard that some Aldis sell yarn...

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Seriously, Terifying — do you get kickbacks from Aldi for that?

Nothing personal against Aldi’s, except that their produce is NOT all that and I positively hate how I can’t see my items being rung up on the screen. I appreciate how they treat and remunerate their employees. 

That said, I go out of my way to a local Save-a-Lot store, a USA-based chain which is about 5 years behind Aldi’s in variety of brands but has excellent prices, better produce IMHO  (if a smaller variety)  and very good meat and frozen products.

Employment appear to be along the Aldi model, with each worker having multiple responsibilities and IME a wonderful sense of customer service that is lacking sometimes at the traditionally staffed stores (where there are courtesy clerks to bag your purchases). 

Cart use is free (I so often don’t have change on me!) and the stores are not huge.  I’ve noticed newer Aldi’s stores are bigger. 

Try Save-a-Lot, Teri. You don’t mind me encouraging you to do so, do you?

Note to Poor Sarah: take a seat about Gigi’s photography skills, would you? It’s not like she’s cleaning ceiling fans!!!

:drumroll:

 

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2 minutes ago, Granwych said:

I've heard that some Aldis sell yarn...

Our nearest one has an aisle full of all kinds of odds and ends, so I can believe it!

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22 minutes ago, anniebgood said:

Closest Aldi that I know of is in Cerritos down past the mall. Saw it when I went to dinner before school one night. Like you Ralphs, TJ's and Sprouts, and the farmers markets are good enough for me. 
Supposedly we're going to get a Grocery Outlet where the Haggens/Albertsons used to be. But such a NIMBY uproar happened that I wonder if they pulled out. In the meantime there are 3 Ralphs close. 

Grocery Outlet is great. We don't have Aldis here but there are lots of GOs. Huge selection of  cheap plonk inexpensive wines, grass-fed beef and occasionally pasture-raised eggs, $1.99 pints of Talenti gelato, and an eclectic assortment of shelf-stable items. If you see something you like you have to buy as much as you can carry because you will probably never see it there again. 

Our NIMBYs threw a fit about  Dollar Store coming to town. I admit, that store conjures up too many images of Emily OfDna and her tube meat and I would rather see an independent grocer in that space. But not everyone can afford to  shop at Whole Foods or even Trader Joe's.

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