Last week, I distributed 77 spring mini catalogs to various people at my church via our mailslots. I started calling everyone this week, not asking them to buy or book or anything like that, but rather to refer me to someone who might want to. Most people seemed relieved that I was not asking them to have a show and many told me they would take the catalog to work and ask around. Great!
I stopped in church last night to drop my son off for the youth group's babysitting night and grabbed tomorrow's bulletin. I was reading it over today and there is an announcement in there that COMPLAINTS have been received regarding business solicitations in church mailslots so please don't do it, blah blah blah.
Now, I have not received any other business solicitations in my mailslot, so this announcement is clearly directed at me. What could have been taken care of with a single phone call has now caused me great humiliation as I have been chastized in front of the whole church for using the mailslots to promote my business.
If someone from the church council had bothered to call me, they would know that I distributed the catalogs to ask for referrals because I need to ramp up my business to make more money because my DH is currently unemployed. Do they care?
UGH!!! I am so upset and I needed to vent somewhere, so thanks for listening.
Oh, and our church does not have any published policy regarding what can and cannot go into the mailslots, so I didn't know I was violating any rules. I thought my church members would be happy to support me in my business, but I guess not. I am literally in tears over this and now I'm not sure I even want to attend this church any longer.
I stopped in church last night to drop my son off for the youth group's babysitting night and grabbed tomorrow's bulletin. I was reading it over today and there is an announcement in there that COMPLAINTS have been received regarding business solicitations in church mailslots so please don't do it, blah blah blah.
Now, I have not received any other business solicitations in my mailslot, so this announcement is clearly directed at me. What could have been taken care of with a single phone call has now caused me great humiliation as I have been chastized in front of the whole church for using the mailslots to promote my business.
If someone from the church council had bothered to call me, they would know that I distributed the catalogs to ask for referrals because I need to ramp up my business to make more money because my DH is currently unemployed. Do they care?
UGH!!! I am so upset and I needed to vent somewhere, so thanks for listening.
Oh, and our church does not have any published policy regarding what can and cannot go into the mailslots, so I didn't know I was violating any rules. I thought my church members would be happy to support me in my business, but I guess not. I am literally in tears over this and now I'm not sure I even want to attend this church any longer.