Hand Down a Toilet

Right now we're in the middle of hosting a community wide youth revival (called Oasis) that is sponsored by area churches and put on by their youth ministers.

Having over 1100++ students in one building to hear about Jesus and worship like crazy is pretty awesome (band is Julian Drive ... WOW!) ... HOWEVER, there are some drawbacks.

Sunday night one of our AWESOME youth workers went into the male restroom and discovered someone had stuffed TP into the commode enough to clog it and then covered their tracks with good ole urine (or as my mom used to say 'Tee Tee').

Our volunteer was of course upset and a little angry but in the end he took one for the team and instantly became the church plumber using his hand to unclog the toilet.

No, we don't like to have our building or any building treated with disrespect or damaged in anyway. And sometimes it is tempting to NOT use our building because there is always spilled coffee, overflowing trash cans, messy bathrooms, etc ...
However, we do not worship our building or serve it.
Our building serves our purpose which just happens to be God's purpose ... which is to redeem people through Jesus Christ.

...the first night there were around 70 decisions made for Christ. Last night there were somewhere around 30-40 decisions made!

So yes, reaching out to lost people and teenagers can get a little dirty, a little messy, (maybe even a little gross) ... but Jesus got pretty dirtied up and messed up for us (remember Mel's Passion of the Christ?).

The question to ask is this:
What bothers us more:
--Sticking one's hand in a toilet filled up with pee?? -OR-
--Seeing people go to hell and doing nothing about it??

So we'll keep saying "No" to hell and "yes" to 'tee tee' ... if that is what it takes!