Pastoral Holiday Choices

Because we work on so many holidays, Grace Fellowship has decided to just roll holidays into our "PTO" (paid time off) allotment.  Meaning, we don't take holidays off as a staff.  If we want the holiday off, we simply use our own PTO.  So for instance, I preached on Christmas morning.  Not exactly a day off work, so I won't take PTO for it.

We do however, also recognize that there are times that many of us will take our PTO and it isn't worth having the building open (with maintenance and office staff), for example, July 4th when not on a Sunday.  Today (Monday the 26th) was one of those days.  No building open, even though 4 of us were getting together for a meeting at 3:30.

I went in earlier and had to open the building by myself.  I was essentially alone all day until the meeting, when the other 3 showed up.  They took PTO for the rest of the day and just came in for our meeting.

I didn't actually accomplish much while I was there, but I put the hours in so I wouldn't have to use my PTO.  My holiday choices all now affect the time I have saved up to spend in Columbia when we travel (perverbially knocking on wood) to meet our future child.  So I'll sit in the building alone, tacking another day onto my stay in Columbia.

These are my pastor holiday choices.