Coffee after Church?

[Duncan]

I was talking to a friend of mine over supper and they were saying that their friend in a Canadian province they serve coffee and tea after Church. The missionaries go to Timmie's and buy coffee and tea and give it to investigators. Apparently they got permission to do this. I don't know if they buy it on the sunday or they get the  cans of what but is this a new thing now? should we advertise "Linger Longer and Latte"?

[Tacenda]

15 minutes ago, Duncan said:

I was talking to a friend of mine over supper and they were saying that their friend in a Canadian province they serve coffee and tea after Church. The missionaries go to Timmie's and buy coffee and tea and give it to investigators. Apparently they got permission to do this. I don't know if they buy it on the sunday or they get the  cans of what but is this a new thing now? should we advertise "Linger Longer and Latte"?

Par for the Course in your area, once again! Ok then, what if the investigators then want to be baptized and are told not coffee or tea, I say that it will backfire big time or bigly.   

[rongo]

I think the Church in your area is true, as far as it is translated correctly.  

German Church kitchens are well-stocked with Caro (Pero) and herbal tea (Yuck!). We used to make Caro for district meetings. I like it, and the smell (just like coffee, but made from barley, chicory, and dandelion root). 

[Hamba Tuhan]

12 minutes ago, Tacenda said:

Par for the Course in your area, once again! Ok then, what if the investigators then want to be baptized and are told not coffee or tea, I say that it will backfire big time or bigly.   

Quoting cos I can't rep!

[Duncan]

17 minutes ago, Tacenda said:

Par for the Course in your area, once again! Ok then, what if the investigators then want to be baptized and are told not coffee or tea, I say that it will backfire big time or bigly.   

hahahha! well, this is in another province! 

[strappinglad]

Can't be AB , must be MB

[ksfisher]

39 minutes ago, rongo said:

I think the Church in your area is true, as far as it is translated correctly.  

🤣

[Amulek]

40 minutes ago, rongo said:

I think the Church in your area is true, as far as it is translated correctly.  

Maybe all of the good members have actually been translated already, and poor Duncan just happened to show up too late - like in one of those horrible Kirk Cameron movies. /shudder

 

[Rain]

1 hour ago, Tacenda said:

Par for the Course in your area, once again! 

😄😄

[Rain]

48 minutes ago, Duncan said:

hahahha! well, this is in another province! 

Your province is seeping.

"Captain, I'm giving you all she's got, but the shield won't hold much longer!"

[Duncan]

14 minutes ago, Amulek said:

Maybe all of the good members have actually been translated already, and poor Duncan just happened to show up too late - like in one of those horrible Kirk Cameron movies. /shudder

 

you have no idea how right you are! hahahhaha!

[Duncan]

1 minute ago, Rain said:

Your province is seeping.

"Captain, I'm giving you all she's got, but the shield won't hold much longer!"

 

[Robert F. Smith]

12 hours ago, rongo said:

I think the Church in your area is true, as far as it is translated correctly.  

German Church kitchens are well-stocked with Caro (Pero) and herbal tea (Yuck!). We used to make Caro for district meetings. I like it, and the smell (just like coffee, but made from barley, chicory, and dandelion root). 

My mom kept Postum in the kitchen, but I never got excited by the taste.  She also liked Coca-Cola, and I could never understand that.  I have always preferred Root Beer.

I understand that missionaries in the South Sea Islands drink kava kava.  It is apparently psychoactive.

[alter idem]

15 hours ago, Duncan said:

I was talking to a friend of mine over supper and they were saying that their friend in a Canadian province they serve coffee and tea after Church. The missionaries go to Timmie's and buy coffee and tea and give it to investigators. Apparently they got permission to do this. I don't know if they buy it on the sunday or they get the  cans of what but is this a new thing now? should we advertise "Linger Longer and Latte"?

Doesn't sound true at all.  For me to believe it, I'd have to assume that missionaries are so stupid they'd shoot themselves in the foot in serving 'investigators' the very product they are going to tell them they have to give up to become members!  

Now, what would sound true is if a local ward was holding some kind of community outreach type of activity in the cultural hall and many in the community were invited to attend and the ward served coffee along with other typical refreshments.  That, I've heard of, but it was not a missionary event, it was the local ward sponsoring a community event and hosting it in the cultural hall. 

[Duncan]

Just now, alter idem said:

Doesn't sound true at all.  For me to believe it, I'd have to assume that missionaries are so stupid they'd shoot themselves in the foot in serving 'investigators' the very product they are going to tell them they have to give up to become members!  

Now, what would sound true is if a local ward was holding some kind of community outreach type of activity in the cultural hall and many in the community were invited to attend and the ward served coffee along with other typical refreshments.  That, I've heard of, but it was not a missionary event, it was the local ward sponsoring a community event and hosting it in the cultural hall. 

who knows!

[The Nehor]

I am waiting for your stake to try to form a schism and have an Antiprophet or something. Unfortunately it does not sound as good as an antiPope.

Edited October 5, 2018 by The Nehor

[Scott Lloyd]

5 hours ago, Robert F. Smith said:

My mom kept Postum in the kitchen, but I never got excited by the taste.  She also liked Coca-Cola, and I could never understand that.  I have always preferred Root Beer.

I understand that missionaries in the South Sea Islands drink kava kava.  It is apparently psychoactive.

I was raised on Postum.

I don't use it in its pure form anymore, but of a winter night, I like to add a spoonful of it to the Cocomotion machine as I'm stirring up a container of hot chocolate. It really adds an extra dimension to the cocoa.

The kids won't abide it, but one night some years ago, my eldest son came home and had a cup of the cocoa I had made. I didn't tell him it contained Postum. He commented that there was something different about the taste. Then he said, "It's good, though."

To this day, I haven't owned up to it.

 

Edited October 5, 2018 by Scott Lloyd

[Calm]

6 hours ago, Robert F. Smith said:

I understand that missionaries in the South Sea Islands drink kava kava.  It is apparently psychoactive.

I think it highly unlikely they drink it on a routine basis.  It is possible they might when involved in local culture ceremonies and are drinking too small amount of it to have an effect...but I would like to see evidence of this as I have seen evidence that mission presidents have instructed missionaries not to.

[Jeanne]

6 hours ago, Robert F. Smith said:

My mom kept Postum in the kitchen, but I never got excited by the taste.  She also liked Coca-Cola, and I could never understand that.  I have always preferred Root Beer.

I understand that missionaries in the South Sea Islands drink kava kava.  It is apparently psychoactive.

I love postum....and my diet coke is just to die for...we have a lot in common!!

[Hamba Tuhan]

12 hours ago, Robert F. Smith said:

I understand that missionaries in the South Sea Islands drink kava kava.  It is apparently psychoactive.

The Church officially and formally discourages kava consumption for anything other than purely ceremonial purposes. That there is an exception opens the door wide for members to completely ignore that counsel, but the last time I checked, non-ceremonial consumption of kava at BYU-H can result in expulsion.

[MiserereNobis]

8 hours ago, The Nehor said:

I am waiting for your stake to try to form a schism and have an Antiprophet or something. Unfortunately it does not sound as good as an antiPope.

I hate to gloat, but we Catholics have got you Mormons beat by a long shot when it comes to naming things. I mean, you guys have the "Church Office Building" and we have the "Roman Curia of the Holy See."  

[MiserereNobis]

4 minutes ago, Hamba Tuhan said:

The Church officially and formally discourages kava consumption for anything other than purely ceremonial purposes. That there is an exception opens the door wide for members to completely ignore that counsel, but the last time I checked, non-ceremonial consumption of kava at BYU-H can result in expulsion.

What ceremonial consumption would be ok with the LDS church? I just ask because I'm intrigued; ceremonies tend to have religious overtones (and there are those kava cults in the south Pacific) so I'm curious about this.

[Storm Rider]

On ‎10‎/‎4‎/‎2018 at 8:51 PM, Duncan said:

I was talking to a friend of mine over supper and they were saying that their friend in a Canadian province they serve coffee and tea after Church. The missionaries go to Timmie's and buy coffee and tea and give it to investigators. Apparently they got permission to do this. I don't know if they buy it on the sunday or they get the  cans of what but is this a new thing now? should we advertise "Linger Longer and Latte"?

Unless it is happy hour and then these same missionaries bring Canadian Whiskey - right? Of course, because only in the Twilight Zone do missionaries teach the Word of Wisdom and then completely ignore it. 

[Hamba Tuhan]

32 minutes ago, MiserereNobis said:

What ceremonial consumption would be ok with the LDS church? I just ask because I'm intrigued; ceremonies tend to have religious overtones (and there are those kava cults in the south Pacific) so I'm curious about this.

It's an integral part of wedding ceremonies in many places ('day of kava' is actually the name for marriage in Tongan), funerals, installing new chiefs -- that kind of thing.

Edited October 6, 2018 by Hamba Tuhan

[MiserereNobis]

We always have coffee and donuts and other food after Mass. I think coffee before church would be better... help keep us all awake