A Pounding - What items do you like to include?

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by CC1

The only reason I knew what a pounding is is because we are the same age! LOL!! I did not not notice this was from 2007. I am always amazed when someone pulls up ancient threads.

LOL! When I got in church we had a couple of very old people pastoring in a couple of churches close by, so that is how I learned the term. I like to hear the stories that the older people can tell. There is a lot of sincerity in their walk with God.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Charnock

Pressing On, raised in southeast Missouri, I remember "poundings." It's a sweet tradition that I would like to see restored.

I suggested to the women in our church, around Mother's Day, that while we give the pastor's wife something every year, we should find a needy mother and give her a gift certificate from our local grocery store.

I personally don't like focusing on the ministry at every occasion when they are not normally in a financial bind as other people are.

Originally Posted by Charnock

By the way, the reason it's call a "pounding" is that the expectation was that friends and family members would give a newly married couple a pound of this or a pound of that.

Just like a shower, someone would coordinate the event, and everyone would compare notes, so that the couple wasn't given too much of one staple, and not enough of another. People typically brought flour, sugar, brown sugar, rice, beans, etc.

Poundings were usually given after a couple returned from their honeymoon and were settled in for a month or two.

I would imagine the reason why the tradition died is that many families no longer cook things that aren't pre-packaged.

So, true, many families eat a lot of pre-packaged food.

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

LOL! When I got in church we had a couple of very old people pastoring in a couple of churches close by, so that is how I learned the term. I like to hear the stories that the older people can tell. There is a lot of sincerity in their walk with God.

I have heard horror stories about "pounding" for evangelists becaause many times they would get a lot of the same thing. If it was a rural farming community maybe more eggs than they could ever eat but not much else.

I personally was told a story by a famous (within Pentecost) pastors wife about how when her husband was evangelizing (probably in the mid 1960's) they were in a major Texas town for revival and no one brought them anything to eat or money to buy anything to eat. The church had put them up in a small apartment above some kind of store. Out the window across the street was a park and she could see a vendor with a popcorn cart. She was so hungry eventually she went across to the park and asked the vendor if he would sell her a half filled bag of popcorn to eat because she did not have enough money for a full bag.

I know many times things were tough for Pentecostals when churches were heavily made up of women and people with low incomes but the thought that a pastor and church would let a Evangelist and his wife practically starve just amazes me. I don't thi8nk it was anything malicious but just incompentence in assuming variour saints were bringing them food to take care of them without there being any organization to it to make sure it was happening.

Thankfully I doubt anything like this has happened for a very long time!

[Jito463]

Originally Posted by Charnock

By the way, the reason it's call a "pounding" is that the expectation was that friends and family members would give a newly married couple a pound of this or a pound of that.

Just like a shower, someone would coordinate the event, and everyone would compare notes, so that the couple wasn't given too much of one staple, and not enough of another. People typically brought flour, sugar, brown sugar, rice, beans, etc.

Poundings were usually given after a couple returned from their honeymoon and were settled in for a month or two.

I would imagine the reason why the tradition died is that many families no longer cook things that aren't pre-packaged.

A "pound"cake?