It’s scary what some idle time in the car will do to the mind of a children’s pastor. Here’s an example. I came up with 15 ways for a senior pastor to lose his children’s pastor in 10 days.

1. Tell him that if he keeps up the good work you’ll promote him to youth pastor.

2. Base her pay on a commission from the weekly kids church offering.

3. Call on Friday night and tell her that the ladies need a babysitter at the church on Saturday morning.

4. Tell him the board voted that goldfish crackers are banned from the building.

5. Make him to spend twelve weeks in kids church teaching through the book of Leviticus.

6. Blame him for every new carpet stain in the fellowship hall.

7. Encourage the parents to peak their heads in the door at least twice each service to check on their kids.

8. Announce to the church that VBS will be outside this year.

9. Ask him to babysit your kids while you go on vacation this summer.

10. When he says he needs more nursery workers, tell him that running an announcement in the bulletin should be good enough.

11. Tell him that if the old metal chairs were good enough for him when he was a kid, then they’re good enough today.

12. Encourage the kids church leaders to join the choir.

13. Give her a gift card to Sam’s Club as a Christmas bonus.

14. Tell the ladies ministry that they can start using the resource room for storage too.

15. Decide to start a new weekend service without talking to him.