Today, the pastor of my church anounced that his 19-year-old daughter was pregnant out of wed-lock.

As the pastor's wife began to cry, a little boy ran up to her and hugged her saying, "It's okay! Babies are the best thing in the world, no matter what." GMH

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Wow. Children are so precious. I'm sure everything will work out for the family. It sounds like they have a lot of support, especially from that little boy.

haha. that is the cutest! it just blows my mind to see how people care! i didnt know so many do! hope the family's doing well and the pregnancy will be okay. its good to bring out God's great creation!

invioletlight: First off i don't care if you classify yourself as a troll or not. Not a single person gains anything good from your comments. All your comments do is put down the OP or others, and I'm sick of it. Either shut up and go away, or comment with respect. We're here to get hope, not to correct people's grammar errors, say you don't believe the post, point out the tiny bad things, or crap like that. Maybe YOU should learn to read because where in the post does it say: The pastor called his daughter a sinner in front of the whole church? Because it doesn't say that. I can see your point of view a little that he maybe should not have talked about that in church, but ranting on about it, and being a jerk is not going to change anything. It already happened. Why don't you look at the BRIGHT side of the story? The little boy trying to cheer up the pastor's wife. Maybe you'll think differently if you are more optimistic. I hope your next comment will be more respectful.

*cough cough* invio is a troll *cough cough*

Oh man i meant the trolls tribe leader

Better love it

just forget it, im just going to skip over your comments from now on. i dont want to annoy everyone by arguing with you.

everyone needs to stop arguing. yes the paster shouldnt have mentioned his PERSONAL BUSINESS but he did and its ridiculous to argue over whether or not he should have or shouldnt have because he already did. and calling anyone a troll because of their opinion is just rude. everyone just needs to focus on seeing the hope of how the little boy was trying to help

Can I just say that I did not read this post as a negative thing at all and only did I see this as a potential bad thing until after I read the rather vicious comments on everyone's part. Nowhere in the post does it say that the Pastor referred to his daughter's pregnancy as a sin, nor does it say that the Pastor specifically mentioned the information that she was not married. If he had, who said it was in a negative light? Announcing a pregnancy is not uncommon in churches, at least not mine. The mothers ask for prayer and support, and in a tight-knit church, both are offered. Being the Pastor's daughter, the congregation is bound to know that she is not married, so her lack of husband would not need to be mentioned at all when the pregnancy is announced. Announcing the pregnancy would take preference to keeping it a secret. If it was not announced, it would turn into scandal when the pregnancy started to show. The Pastor did the right thing announcing the pregnancy and the young boy's caring is truly touching. Save your harsh words and anger for FML.com. GMH is a site for love and hope in regards to everyone, poster and commenters alike.

Although I'm not entirely sure why the pastor felt that it was necessary to announce that his daughter was pregnant out of wedlock, the kid's reaction is priceless. True, too. Babies, although loads of work, are quite adorable. :)

That's a sweet boy, and I hope the girl's parents are being supportive. He should not have made that announcement, even if he wasn't calling her a sinner as others on here have said. It is a private matter, even for a pastor's family.

Yes, I admit that calling invioletlight a troll is bad, and I apologize. But invioletlight has BEEN trolling recently(the comments have been deleted by now, but almost every story had a abusive, negative comment. That is the technical definition of "trolling"), saying extremely negative things about these stories, and it made me angry. This is certainly not the first story he/she has insulted. Rants are not uncommon. Everyone has their right for an opinion, but nobody has the right to tell someone else they are wrong.

Yeah, don't be hard of SimplyLaurel. We were all thinking it, she was just the first one to say it. Invioletlight was pissing me off too.

"nor does it say that the Pastor specifically mentioned the information that she was not married" I think being pregnant _out of wedlock_ specifically gives that information away. In general? I don't see this post as a bad thing myself. A little boy turned a difficult moment into something sweet, and perhaps reminded pastor and wife that babies are a blessing

I think this is an adorable story. I agree with the little boy -- babies ARE wonderful no matter what. And also, I don't find a problem with the pastor and his family drawing support from their congregation. I think that I a lot of people need support through times like this, especially a pastor and his family. He's not saying that his daughter is bad or that he blames her or anything like that. He's drawing support from the congregation. Which would find out that his daughter was pregnant eventually anyways and that would cause it to be a scandal. Honesty is good. I'm not religious, but that's my opinion.

I agree that the pastor probably announced it as a way of showing that the church does consider it a sin, but that he is not condemming her. And, like previous people have pointed out, the members of the church would have found out anyway, but not openly admiting it would be cowardly, to an extent. They probably thought it was more fitting to say something than it would be to simply allow a scandal to appear.

I certainly missed a lot not being on here for three days. I love this story, and the boy is adorable. Just wondering (no time to Google, bed): what is wed-lock?

Wedlock is not being married. This post is awesome!

awe :D

I miss a couple of days of comments, come to this post, and see everybody ranting over a comment that has been taken off. Let me tell you, it's not all that flattering. Ainad said it all--but I can't help frowning when I see a lovely commenter like Laurel feel abashed for a little comment due to it. It's not good to glorify the troll, assuming invioletlight was indeed one, either. It's clear from the reactions that there was no discussion of the prevention of such wrongs in his comment, so please do not act as though invioletlight is a heroic figure working toward the greater good.

Wed-lock IS being MARRIED. Not being unmarried. Out of wedlock means she was not locked into nuptials. To WTF, women are just as capable of taking care of children unmarried as they are married, if they really want to. I know (hope) you were trolling, but women are not slaves and I am sick of people acting like a womans sexuality is a bad thing when men whore around all the time.

As a 17 year old girl reading this it made me cry. Because it is so true. and so sweet. and i love love love the simplicity and hopefulness that children have in all situations

Don't judge this story, as it doesn't give you a full picture of the situation, it doesn't tell you what sort of church (different denominations have slightly different rules, but they all boil down to the same knowledge of the unconditional love of God and Jesus Christ), the daughter's situation (for all we know she could have been a victim of rape-it happens) or the families situation. But we can say that Pastor was reaching out for help from the congregation. That, we know for sure. Just for the record (also as a 17 year old girl) I love this story too because of the innocence and wisdom of that child :)

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