Saturday 29 December 2018

Unacceptable!

This morning I had an anonymous phone call.  This person has called 2 or 3 times now.  She never
gives her name but the story is always the same.

It is a poor me story & it goes like this:  Is this the church?  Which island are we on?  Long silence while she considers the fact we are not on her island.  Then she tells me how ill she is; how she has a doctor's appointment on the mainland that she can't get to unless the church takes her...

Lady, it goes like this:  I don't know who you are; you do not attend our church; I don't know where you live ~ or even which island you are on; you have no idea if I have mainland transport or not; you have never offered recompense for my time, my boat fare or petrol; you know you have the appointment so you have had plenty of time to save travel costs & arrange transport; there is the question of insurance ~ which we do not have to cart a sick person around town; there are legitimate companies like STAR who specialise in this, who have paid professionals & insurance.  This is not our job!  I know you, & lots of people like you, think it is but our job is to share the gospel, nothing more, nothing less.  Why are you ringing me?

Yes, I am mad.  This is not acceptable.  In our country we provide services for these sorts of contingencies & they do not cost the earth to access. These are the services who have the right insurance, the right sort of cars, trained carers ~ none of which we have.  Do not ring me. *sigh*

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