Church Wants Sister Gone Over Sons in Jail

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A deacon calls Sister Cherise to say the church wants her to stop attending because her sons are in jail, prompting her to refuse and demand the pastor call her himself.

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Speaker 1

Um, it's just a joke.

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I called a lady and told her that we as the members of the church didn't want her at the church no more.

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Some Christians, it don't sit too well with them.

Speaker 1

Hello.

Speaker 2

Hello.

Speaker 1

I'm trying to reach Sister Cherise Mayfield.

Speaker 2

Who is this?

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Deacon Bowns from the from the church.

Speaker 2

Deacon who?

Speaker 1

Bounds.

Speaker 2

From the church.

Speaker 2

From what?

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From our church?

Speaker 1

Yes, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 2

Okay.

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From from from Moore's Hill.

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Can you hear me good?

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This whole phone don't work with

good.

Speaker 2

Yeah, my phone okay.

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Okay, that I call it the Deacon Board and had a meeting as well as uh Pastor Stolles.

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And uh they didn't have the meeting and they come to the understanding that uh they gonna ask you to not come to church right now because that about that them boys of your Eric and James being in jail the way they is and wanna want you to just uh I don't know if they gonna suspend you from church right now, but they uh they think it put a bad look on the church.

Speaker 2

My kids being in jail put a bad look on the church.

Speaker 1

Well, that's what that's what's what they that's what they come up with.

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Now we had a meeting with the deacon board and with Pastor Stoles.

Speaker 2

I don't understand why y'all have a meek meeting about my kids in the church.

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What my kids got to do with the church.

Speaker 1

Well, what we trying to do is show a good example to the youth that we got there.

Speaker 2

Okay, you can show a good example by me being there paying my tithes and offering.

Speaker 1

Well, that's another thing that been brought to our attention that we're gonna be calling a lot of members about is people not paying the tithe the way they both.

Speaker 2

I'll pay my tithe.

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I don't know, I don't know who told you that, Deacon Byrnes.

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I don't even know.

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First of all, who you are, and I'm not trying to be mean to you.

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And I don't I don't even understand why you How you even got my phone number.

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But I pay my tithes.

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I pay my offering.

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Go on your computer at the church.

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Call your secretary or whoever.

Speaker 1

Well, let me let me let me ask you this, Sus Mayfield.

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Do you pay your tithe according to what you make?

Speaker 2

Yes, I do.

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Check the books.

Speaker 1

Well, well, well, now what it is that we can't check the books if we don't know exactly what you make, is what I'm saying.

Speaker 2

What I make is my business between me and Jesus.

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I give him his 10%, and that's all Mars Hill needs to know.

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I understand exactly where you come from, but now the main issue on table is about these boys.

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And and being uh, you know, disrupted the way they are.

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They don't want that to be to bleed over into the youth.

Speaker 2

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

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Uh, first of all, I would appreciate if you would have a pastor to tell me this himself.

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And then second of all, if somebody kids is having trouble in the world or whatever, y'all supposed to pray for them, not put them at the church or they mama.

Speaker 1

Well, I'm I'm uh what I'm we gonna we gonna pray for, and we're gonna pray for you too.

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But we don't want this to shed over to the youth that we got that's doing good with this.

Speaker 2

Well, I'm gonna keep coming.

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Y'all can't stop me from coming to the church.

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I'm gonna keep coming.

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So I don't know who you talking to, and you tell Pastor to call me himself and tell me I can't come to Mars Hill.

Speaker 2

And you have nobody calling me telling me that I can't come to Mars Hill.

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That is a free church.

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I'm gonna get the pastor called.

Speaker 2

Well, you get the pastor to call me because you have no business calling me, telling me that I can't come to God's house.

Speaker 1

Well, Sus Mayfield, I don't want you to get in no hook roll with me.

Speaker 2

I'm not getting I'm not getting angry with nobody.

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I work, I don't work 18, 16 hours today.

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I don't have half nobody calling me, telling me that I can't come to a church that I pay my tithes and offering it.

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Not that I own the church, I pay my tithes because that's that's due to God.

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But you Y'all really making me upset by telling me I can't come now because of my kids in their troubles.

Speaker 2

I wasn't at church because I had overstapped and why is that any of your business?

Speaker 1

Now there you go being in up road with me again.

Speaker 2

I don't know who this is.

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How could you call somebody about church business over the phone?

Speaker 2

This don't make sense.

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Sister Mayville.

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Hello?

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Yeah.

Speaker 1

One more thing.

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This nephew tell me from the Steve Harvey morning show.

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You just got

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you.

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I got you.

Speaker 2

Oh my God.

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Wait a minute.

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How you gonna

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Y'all go

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back?

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I'm like, who is this call?

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We talking about church being.

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You know what I like about you though.

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Ain't nobody gonna keep you out of the Lord's house.

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You gonna show up and show out every Sunday.

Speaker 2

Every Sunday, I'm coming to church in the name of Jesus.

Speaker 1

I know that's right, baby.

Speaker 2

Well, thank you.

Speaker 1

Hey, baby, let me ask you something.

Speaker 2

Uh-huh.

Speaker 1

What's the baddest radio show in the land?

Speaker 2

Now, do you even have to ask me that?

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The Steve Harvey Moore and so baby.