Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:

>
> That is true. We used to belong to a church body that had hugely
> attended feasts, but it was usually four or five of us (families) that
> ended up bringing most of the food. It wasn't an attempt to show anyone
> up, just knowing that there would be a lot of people who were hungry and
> we were the families who generally did the most cooking anyway, and
> tended to bring lots of hungry young fry with us.

There always seems to be a small core of people who do the work and bear
the expense. There was an odd situation in my wife's church. There was
one family that was very well represented in the women's auxiliary. One
of our neighbours, her three sisters, her mother, her aunts and cousins
were all heavily involved. Some people were intimidated and got all
paranoid that this family was taking over everything. I can understand
them wanting to get other people involved. I have a hard time faulting
this family for doing far more than their share of the work.