Thank you to my long-time friend, Linda Gill for sharing this with me. Linda has always had her finger on the pulse of the local churches.
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After several Sunday services were interrupted by a community of acorn-hoarding rodents, the local Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their squirrel infestation. After much prayer and consideration, the Building and Maintenance committee members concluded that the squirrels were predestined to be there, and they should not interfere with God’s divine will.

The members of the Lutheran church decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God’s creatures. So, they humanely trapped their squirrels and set them free near the Baptist church. Two weeks later, the squirrels were back after the Baptists took down the water-slide.
The Episcopalians started down a unique path by setting out pans of whiskey around their church in an effort to kill the squirrels with alcohol poisoning. They then sadly learned how much damage a band of drunk squirrels can do.
The Catholic church came up with an interesting strategy! They baptized all the squirrels and made them parishioners. Now they only see them at Christmas and Easter. . . but the squirrels had already left their mark.
During the quarterly, ecumenical clergy breakfast, the local squirrel situation was one of the topics of discussion and the attending clergy were sharing their woes. All, except the Rabbi who was silent, but smiling. One of the others noticed his smile and asked how his temple dealt with the rodents? “The first day, we found the biggest male and we circumcised him. We never saw another squirrel after that”.

Tradition coupled with innovation wins again.
Ha! This was great! Thanks for sharing g.
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You are welcome and thank you for being a long time reader…and one that comments. It’s nice to know you are out there. I was at an event with a group of people I haven’t seen much of in a few years. Three individuals, at different times, came up to me an told me they read every post. None of them had ever commented and I didn’t even know they read it.
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I am going to be passing this one on to our church secretary and our pastor…I am pretty sure they will love it.
Really like that picture of the four squirrels…they kind of look like they should be holding baseball gloves and wearing ball caps LOL.
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