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The other day signed my four year old son up for preschool so that he can start in the fall. I had no idea what an ordeal this was going to be. My, oh my! The doctor’s forms, the emergency forms, the behavior contract, the daily habits form…it goes on and on. The preschool is at our church, and I knew we would get some sort of discount with my husband working full time and everything, but I didn’t know all the details. So the day all of our forms were due I made sure my husband came in with me to get all of our discount stuff squared away. So I hand in my paperwork. I ask the lady about the discount with my husband standing right next to me. She looks at my husband and says, “Can you prove that you work full time at this church?” He says “Yes.” She says in an unbelieving tone, “If I call upstairs to HR they can tell me you work here and verify your information as an employee?” “Yes.”, says Jeff. “Well, what is your name?” she asks…blah, blah, blah. We go through proving who we really are so that we can get the magnificent discount (hardly). So at the end of it all she says like a flash of lightning has hit her, “Oh, no wonder! You are just the youth pastor, I was wondering why I couldn’t figure out who you were.”
My husband was so glad he came with me that day, a real boost for his ego.
(I tell ya, the youth pastor perks are unbelievable!) 
Oh, my!! Tell us that you are at an unbelievably LARGE church! That may help to explain, at least a little bit.
That happens to us all the time-the no one knowing who the youth pastor is. It did start to change after my husband had a couple of chances to teach in “big church”. Where are those YP “perks”, anyway? 