The Pastor’s Kids
Growing up can be tough, even tougher when you are a Pastor’s kid, or PK for short. That’s how it was for Brian and Kate O’Dell. They were the children of the pastor of the local Episcopal church. They were expected to uphold a certain standard of propriety and decorum. They were each other’s fiercest allies and greatest weakness. Their father had shown them that the parishioners always had an angle and wanted something from them. Based on the counseling he’d given other families, their dad would tell them which kids they could and couldn’t hang out with. He would warn them about which kids were into drugs and which ones were being promiscuous. Life as a pastor’s kid was rife with lessons in trust. Brian and Kate learned early on that they could only …