So service is over and all of a sudden you get a craving for some food….what do you do?
Well, if you’re a Cristiano, you already have a solution for that.
It is a well-known fact that Cristianos have been able to solve this hunger problem by coming up a with a solution otherwise known as the Actividad. It is the selling of food, snacks, and drinks after every possible service. We will sell everything from tacos to chicharrones to paletas or every church’s favorite, nachos.
If you didn’t know it already, Latinos love food. We also love Jesus. So why not combine both? It is the must-have ingredient after every single gathering of Cristianos. Just think of it as communion, because without it, the service is not complete. You didn’t get your blessing if you didn’t buy from the Actividad. Believe it or not, if you say no to Hermana Rosita’s pupusas, you better believe that she’ll be giving you a dirty look each time she sees you.
I often wonder, if the people in the temple would have just given Jesus a taco at the ancient time Actividad, he wouldn’t have been so angry and overturned all the tables in the temple. Don’t you think?
You’re not really Pentecostal unless you fellowship over food after service. And you’re not a Latino Pentecostal unless that food is sold and served in the church.
I remember General Council 1981 in St. Louis, MO. My dad was the lay delegate from our church. We’d get out of the evening service around 9:00 or 9:30, and hoards of hungry brethren would descend on the hotel restaurants near the convention center. That time of night is usually pretty slow in those restaurants, so they didn’t have enough wait staff to handle the crowds, nor the kitchen crew to prepare that many full meals. I remember one night when we didn’t get a table until after 11:00!
One must be a latino pentecostal to chuckel while reading this! Because the area that I pastor is so economically challenged we never sell our food. Everyone eats; we just place an offering plate for a free will offering and collect so much more than if we sold! PTL! People have learned to give for a cause and not the food! Oh yes, and when we travel for a Women’s Prayer Conference, we take a cooler and stop at a WalMart before we arrive at our destination. Everyone knows that the Alvin church will have a party in their hotel room after the service! We even take pan dulce for breakfast! lol!!
This is soooo true. No matter if it’s a local or national activity…I still don’t know anybody under 60 that goes straight home from church hahahaha