Cancelled?? Can We Say That in Ministry?

CANCELLED. There I said it. Even though the sun is currently shining, our VBS pool adventure for tonight has been cancelled. The threat of rain just too high to risk it. Fortunately, the city pool people agreed that they did not want us to waste the church's money on an event that might only last 5 minutes.

Cancelled.... this nine letter word started a discussion that I found rather interesting. Kathy, aka Jim's wife, said that this word should never be used in ministry. She thought postponed sounded so much better. Dawn, aka our preschool director, and I thought it perfectly acceptable to say CANCELLED. For tonight.... it was cancelled.

Now... hopefully, next Friday night we will be able to have our annual VBS registration night at the public pool.. But even that is iffy given what our weather has been doing lately. Postponed means - it will happen at another date and time. We don't actually know that to be the case. VBS is coming up on us in less than a month. We are still having our registration gig the night before it starts and of course opening morning. While it would be nice to have it - it's not a necessity.

Do you agree or disagree? Can we say cancelled in ministry?